Polish death camps

Philip Bialowitz was part of the small group of Jews who, in 1943, staged a revolt, setting close to 300 prisoners free from the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Poland has long sought to eliminate the misleading phrase from historical and newspaper accounts since it suggests the country, as responsible for Holocaust-era camps on its occupied territory.

The phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei," which, when translated to English means "work sets you free," was written at the end of a document submitted as evidence into a banking inquiry.

Poland introduced legislation whereby people of Polish birth who could prove that they were victims of Nazi or Soviet oppression, could under certain conditions receive a monthly pension of €100.

Previous recorded date "distorted historical reality," with inaccuracy of nearly four years.

"Be Jewish not because of Hitler but despite him. Build a thriving Israel not only because Hitler showed us the cost of being defenseless but because we benefit personally from having a state."

Those who meet her always wonder if this great-grandmother with a sharp sense of humor could possibly be the child who lost her entire family, worked as a child slave laborer, and was pulled from amid the decaying bodies of Bergen-Belsen.