I survived Auschwitz AND Bergen-Belsen… but my mum died 12 days after liberation

Eighty years may have passed, but for Renee Salt – who was just a child when she saw Nazi soldiers marching through Poland for the first time – the horrors of the Holocaust remain all too vivid.

No one, least of all the sweet-faced Jewish girl from Zdunska Wola, once home to one of the largest centres of the textile industry, could have predicted the inhumanity that lay ahead.