At the age of six Paul Drexler was transported with his mother to Hitler's show camp Theresienstadt, where the Red Cross and the rest of the world was tricked into believing Jews were being treated humanely. In reality it was a squalid ghetto, but one nonetheless designed to obscure the far greater horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Paul's father was murdered in the final days of the war, but he and his mother survived and were able to migrate to Australia in 1947. 
 

Georgia Hing of the Daily Telegraph interviews Sydney-based Holocaust survivors Olga Horak, Paul Drexler, Yvonne Engleman and Jack Meister.

I, Witness

At the age of six Paul Drexler was transported with his mother to Hitler's show camp Theresienstadt, where the Red Cross and the rest...

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