Ginette Kolinka (born Ginette Cherkasky) is a French Holocaust survivor. When her father and
brother were taken away to be killed by poison gas shortly after the train on which they had
been transported arrived at Auschwitz she was selected for factory work and taken to the
women's camp. Released in May 1945 she remained silent about her war-time experiences for half
a century. Her own explanation for this is that she did not wish to irritate people.
