Agnes Kaposi, 92, was 11 when she was crammed into a pitch-black cattle cart bound for Auschwitz with 86 other terrified Jews before the padlocked door slid shut behind them. Over five days and nights confined in this tiny cabin, a horrified Agnes watched two people die and some become so deranged from dehydration they tore their hair out. A small slit of window let enough light in to witness the horrors unfolding around her - the glint of the oil barrel they'd been forced to use as a toilet in the corner.
The little girl and her family didn't know their train from Hungary was taking them to Auschwitz to meet their death - or that by some stroke of luck they had been diverted away to Strasshof labour camp.
It was here that Agnes was forced to work as a slave labourer from before the sun came up and way past sundown with rations consisting of soup and bread. After nine months - and after hundreds had died from starvation - Agnes and her family finally began to feel a glimmer of hope when the Nazis fled and the Soviet Union's army arrived to liberate their camp.
Speaking from her home in north London , Agnes told The Sun: "The Russians did absolutely nothing, they gave us nothing. Her hands clasped together, Agnes, who works with the Holocaust Educational Trust , said: "At night, they came.
They raided our camps and targeted some women and took them away. Sexual violence has been used against women and men for centuries during war - and World War Two was no different. It wasn't only at Agnes' labour camp that Jewish women - after years of living through horror after horror under Nazi rule - were raped by the liberating Soviet Army. Hundreds of women at Ravensbruck, Adolf Hitler's concentration camp exclusively for women, were raped and sexually abused by Russian soldiers as they arrived to "liberate" the camp in April The women had prepared a red banner to hand across the camp gates, ready to embrace their saviours - but they soon faced a fresh horror.
