Holocaust survivor's friends made her a dress from scavenged Nazi fabric so she could walk proudly to freedom

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Henryka Shaw rarely spoke of the war but, late in her life, she asked her daughter care for this special dress.

A dress made for a Holocaust survivor so she had something to wear as she walked out of a concentration camp to freedom is one of several new items on display at the Australian War Memorial.Henryka Shaw's friends made her a dress from scavenged materials so she could walk to freedom with prideMany Holocaust relics are now on display in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra

Her friends and fellow prisoners would not let her walk to freedom without something proper to wear — so they got to work.

 

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PanzerShock

So what's so newsworthy about making a dress? Absolutely everybody did this during the war in Europe. It's how my mothers wedding dress was made. Hardly newsworthy!

PanzerShock 'Before she was freed, Henryka survived five separate concentration camps: Venusberg, Bergen-Belsen, Krakau-Plaszow, Auschwitz and finally Mauthausen.' the female elie wiesel....

I'm looking for like minded Aussies that have had enough of this nonsense I want to peacefully protest and get my voice heard.

Ghoulish.

Let's see her walk past the waffen SS in it.

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