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They fell in love in Johannesburg. Bennie Hermer was the young resident physician in Durban's King Edward VIII Hospital. Olda Mehr was a concert pianist, pretty, 18, with glowing black eyes. When she won the Royal Music Academy Award in 1938, she sailed for London, promising she would come back in a year to be married...
...London Olda was a sensation. Sir Henry Wood made her his orchestra's soloist for the Albert Hall season in early 1939. Olda's parents went to London and rewarded her with a Continental holiday. In Poland they were trapped by the war and the Nazis. The Gestapo took Father Mehr to one concentration camp, mother and daughter to another...
...Olda was put into a flooded dungeon. For six weeks she was not allowed to change her clothes. Then the Nazis said she was a spy. They put sharp tongs on her right arm and tore the flesh. They refused her medical attention unless she gave up her "military secrets." From then on indecencies alternated with the dungeon. She cleaned her wounds with the drip from the ceiling...