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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Sophie Halle-Richards

'My mother always found her story too painful to talk about... I can't let it be forgotten'

When Judith Hayman was young, she knew very little about her mum's journey to Manchester. She had been through unspeakable trauma before fleeing her home country of Austria before settling in the UK.

Charlotte Amdurer always found it too painful to speak to her children about the horrors of what she'd seen when her small village on the outskirts of Vienna was invaded by Nazis.

It was only when Charlotte's sister and Judith's aunt, Frieda, decided to share her testimony towards the end of her life, that her family's harrowing connection with the Holocaust was revealed.

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