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National Post
National Post
27 Jan 2025


NextImg:The three twists of fate that saved a Vancouver woman from the gas chambers

Ilona Mermelstein says there were three specific moments during the Holocaust when she was saved from almost certain death.

Three hinge points that led to her being an 87-year-old grandmother living in a comfortable Vancouver apartment, rather than being among the 570,000 Hungarian Jews murdered in the closing months of the Second World War.

The first was a Hungarian gendarme stationed outside a police station on Budapest’s Mosonyi Street. As Mermelstein’s mother, Klára Kiss, walked towards the front door, the officer kept his eyes fixed straight ahead, but delivered a whispered warning.