The Honey Girl of Auschwitz — a story of survival and forgiveness
Holocaust survivor Esther Basch, 95, of Prescott, Arizona, shares her story with her daughter, Rachel Turet, left, at the Wachholz College Center in Kalispell. (Photo by Kent Meireis of Kent Meireis Photography)
Piper Ten Eyck, 15, of Kalispell, meets Holocaust survivor Esther Basch, 95, at the Wachholz College Center Monday Feb. 25, 2024. Basch was 16 when taken to Auschwitz and spoke about her experience of survival and experience. (Hilary Matheson/The Daily Inter Lake)
In the face of death, Holocaust survivor Esther Basch found life.
“On my 16th birthday, May 28, 1944, is the night I got off the train in Auschwitz,” 95-year-old Basch said.
Basch shared her story with an audience of about 900 people at the Wachholz College Center in Kalispell on Monday, Feb. 25 with introductions from Rabbi Shneur Wolf of the Chabad of the Flathead Valley and Whitefish resident Tanya Gersh, who read Psalms 23.
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