What is Erna de Vries?
{{Infobox person | name = Erna de Vries | image = Portrait Erna de Vries.jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = de Vries in 2018 | birth_name = Erna Korn | birth_date = 21 October 1923 | birth_place = [[Kaiserslautern]], [[Palatinate (region)|Palatinate]], [[Weimar Republic|Germany]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2021|10|24|1923|10|21}} | death_place = [[Lathen (Samtgemeinde)|Lathen]], [[Lower Saxony]], Germany | nationality = German | other_names = | occupation = Lecturer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Erna de Vries''' ({{IPA-de|ˈɛʁna də ˈvris|}}; born '''Erna Korn'''; 21 October 1923 – 24 October 2021) was a German [[Holocaust]] survivor.<ref>{{cite news|last=|first=|date=25 October 2021|title=Holocaust-Überlebende Erna de Vries ist tot|trans-title=|url=https://www.osradio.de/2021/10/25/holocaust-ueberlebende-erna-de-vries-ist-tot/|language=German|work=[[Osradio 104.8]]|location=|access-date=27 October 2021|archive-date=26 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026010057/https://www.osradio.de/2021/10/25/holocaust-ueberlebende-erna-de-vries-ist-tot/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1943, she was sent to [[Auschwitz]] with her mother during the [[Holocaust]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.noz.de/erna|title=Erna de Vries hat den Holocaust überlebt|work=Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung|language=German}}</ref> She was ordered to be executed at the gas chambers on 15 September of that year; however was transferred to another camp the day of her execution.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.projektzeitlupe.de/de/ernadevries/lebenslauf/auschwitz/|title=Aufenthalt in Auschwitz-Birkenau|work=Projekt Zeitlupe|language=German}}</ref> She was freed by Allied forces in 1945. de Vries became a lecturer talking about her life during the Holocaust, something her mother wanted her to do.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=2 February 2016|title=Erna de Vries schild