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In July 1940, under pressure from Adolf Hitler, Slovakia’s government bends to Nazi demands, setting the stage for one of the earliest state-led deportations of Jews in Europe. By 1942, tens of thousands of Slovak Jews are rounded up, sold to Nazi Germany, and transported to death camps in occupied Poland.
Among them is Helena Citrónová, a young Jewish woman from Humenné, deported on the very first official transport of Slovak women to Auschwitz. Forced into brutal labor and surrounded by mass murder, her life takes a disturbing turn when she is noticed by Franz Wunsch, an SS guard who falls in love with her.
Wunsch uses his position to protect Helena, bring her food, and even save her sister from the gas chamber—though her sister’s children are murdered. Their secret relationship unfolds inside a world built on cruelty, violence, and genocide, blurring the line between survival and betrayal.
After the war, Helena testifies at Wunsch’s war crimes trial, describing both his acts of mercy and his brutality. Despite overwhelming evidence, he is acquitted. Their lives diverge forever—linked by a story that remains one of the most controversial and haunting human dramas of the Holocaust.

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“She Survived Auschwitz Because a Nazi Fell in Love with Her: Helena Citrónová”

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00:00Helena participated in a musical performance by a group of prisoners.
00:04She was noticed by Franz Wunsch, one of the SS personnel responsible for overseeing the
00:09sorting tasks in Canada warehouses. Helena sang with passion as she believed it might be the
00:15last time she would ever get to sing. When Helena was done singing, Wunsch came up to her and asked
00:20her, please sing the song again. Helena later recalled, she would look up with tears in her
00:27eyes and see a uniform and think, God, where are the eyes of a murderer? These are the
00:33eyes of a human being. Wunsch fell in love with Helena.
00:39Discover the full story on worldhistory.tv
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