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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Emily Retter

Dachau survivor recalls horror of life in first Nazi death camp 90 years on

It was the first Nazi concentration camp, opened 90 years ago today on March 22, 1933 – just two months after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor.

Dachau, named after the town just outside Munich which hosted its horrors, was to become the model for the 44,000 camps and incarceration sites that followed.

Eleven years later, Marta Szpiro was one of its last inmates. Today, an interview would be too arduous for the 95-year-old, who adores beyond all else her three children, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

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