Silvie

Memoirs of a Jewish actress, Silvie Grohs, who was born in Vienna in 1918. In March 1938 she left Austria to work abroad. She settled in Amsterdam, where she was caught by the German occupation in 1940. Grohs and other Jewish refugee actors played in the Schouwburg theater. In mid-1942 the Germans turned the theater into a detention center for Jews. Grohs fled to Brussels. In 1943 she was sent to the Malines detention camp, from there to Auschwitz, and in September 1943 to Ravensbrück. In spring 1945 she was among 700 women transferred to Sweden due to the efforts of the Swedish Red Cross. Just when the trucks were about to pass the last German stronghold it was air-bombed by the British; caught in the attack, 240 of the women prisoners were killed and 460 survived. Grohs was wounded. Later, she married and immigrated to the USA.