Survivors Share Stories at New Holocaust, Genocide Center in South Africa

Veronica Phillips, now 92 years old, was just a teenager when the Nazis sent her to a concentration camp. She and her family were among millions of Jews targeted in the Nazi-led Holocaust during World War II. The war ended when she was 19; she moved to South Africa in 1956 to be with her brother. For decades, she refused to speak of her experience. But the effects of abuse, hard labor and a brutal death march before the war's end have haunted her for most of her life. "I...

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