Joanna Millan

Joanna Millan was born Bela Rosenthal in Berlin in 1942. When she was 8 months old, she and her mother were deported to Theresienstadt. Her mother died of typhus, leaving Joanna on her own until she was liberated and brought to the UK. Adopted at the age of six, Joanna was told to forget the past. Hers is a story of reconstructed memory. For the past 30 years Joanna has been telling her story in schools and universities both in the UK and abroad, particularly in China.