Word: wygodska
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...Betty Wygodska, 61, stood impatiently in line as she waited her turn at the microphone on the small stage in the middle of the capital's cavernous Convention Center. A babel of Polish, German, Hungarian and heavily accented English surrounded her as hundreds of middle-aged and elderly men and women milled about the hall. Finally, when she got her chance to speak, she simply announced her name and then, to identify herself further, rattled off nervously the names of the three Nazi concentration camps she was sent to after the Gestapo arrested her in 1943 in Warsaw...
Suddenly, as Wygodska stepped away from the microphone, a plump, blond woman began elbowing her way up onto the stage and touched her shoulder. Wygodska turned and the two women shrieked with joy, embracing in recognition as tears streamed down their faces. It was the first time since the day of liberation in May 1945 that Wygodska had seen Zosia Piekorska, 55, one of her closest friends during the two years they spent to gether in concentration camps in Poland. Recalled Piekorska, now from Richmond, Va.: "We suffered together, we were hungry together. We were hoping together." Said Wygodska...
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