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07th Mar 2016

Watch: Concentration Camp Survivor On Kindness In A Hopeless Place

Sharyn Hayden

Meet Francine Christophe.

She was eight-years-old when, as a French Jewish girl, was moved as a prisoner of war with her family to the concentration camp at Bergin-Belsen, Northern Germany.

She tells an extraordinarily moving story in this video from HUMANS about a pregnant mother at the camp who gave birth there.

The woman was so emaciated that nobody thought that she or the baby would survive.

But they both did – watch the video until the end to see how Francine ultimately found out;

More than a moving story: a true life lesson.Thank you Francine. #WhatMakesUsHUMAN

Posted by HUMAN on Friday, September 25, 2015

It isn’t hard to see how that was shared online over 16 million times, is it?

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