Letter trove provides window on Nazi labor camps

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They are the yellowed letters and postcards a teenage girl saved from her camps of long ago, laced with news of giddy crushes and confessions of homesickness. But Sala Garncarz Kirschner's camps were no summertime getaway.
Starting in 1940 when she was 16 and until the end of World War II, Kirschner was an inmate in seven Nazi labor camps, yet she managed to squirrel away 300 pieces of correspondence and a brief diary.

"I could not stop looking at you mother, because I felt something inside of me tearing, hurting," the young woman wrote in her diary on Oct. 28, 1940, the day she said goodbye at her hometown train station. "One more kiss, one more hug, and my mother does not want to let go of me. Let it go already, it is torture."

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