Lola Alexander and Ursula Finke both narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz – and after the war were inseparableUrsula Finke weighed less than 5st (31kg) and by her own description was only a “skeleton”, when Lola Alexander tracked her down in bombed-out Berlin in the last days of April 1945. Both had repeatedly, narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz, unlike many of their closest Jewish relatives.Lola and Ursula had become “friends”, as their survivors’ testimony from the 1950s put it,... Read this story
