It started with Yvonne Engleman noticing her school friends had started to treat her 'like she was invisible'. But the growing scourge of antisemitism soon gave way to far worse as Jews were legislated against, 'selected' for enforced labour and transported to camps. Yvonne, 15, found herself alone in Auschwitz and marked for death by sadistic camp physician Dr Joseph Mengele. Yvonne made her way to Australia after the war and now volunteers at the Sydney Jewish Museum.

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

I, Witness

It started with Yvonne Engleman noticing her school friends had started to treat her 'like she was invisible'. But the growing scourge...

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