POPRAD, SLOVAKIA“We opened and closed Auschwitz,” Edith Grosman says. Edith and I are sitting in a Soviet-era hotel room in this picturesque Slovakian town. Outside, snow-covered peaks of the High Tatras loom in the distance. Inside, Edith, who is now 95, is speaking of the fateful events that shaped her life.
“One morning we wake up,” Edith says, splaying out her arthritic hands and patting the air, “and we saw outside on the street glued on the sides of the houses an announcement that all the Jewish girls, unmarried girls, from 16 up have to come to the school the 20th of March 1942 for work.”
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