'China Hwang' of the Nazi camp for women | Aaron Zhang
“Remember only that I was innocent and, just like you, mortal on that day, I, too, had had a face marked by rage, by pity and joy, quite simply, a human face!” Benjamin Fondane, Exodus Murdered at Auschwitz, 1944 Those who have visited Yad Vashem might have read the poem on the wall of the Name Hall. As we commemorate the Yom HaShoah or the Holocaust Memorial Day, the name of a Chinese lady has been lingering in my mind — Nadine Hwang with many different identities: cross-dresser, lawyer, horse rider, car driver, pilot, colonel, polo, cricket and ice hockey player, lesbian cosmopolitan,...