Woman who SURVIVED Auschwitz because Nazis ran out of gas turns 101

 A Jewish woman who escaped the gas chambers of Auschwitz is preparing to celebrate her 101st birthday

Klara Markus, 100, from Sighetu Marmaţiei, in Maramureş in northern Romania, survived three Holocaust concentration camps before the Second World War was over.

Mrs Markus, who had been imprisoned in Dachau and Ravensbruck before being sent to Auschwitz, survived the notorious death camp in Poland because the Nazis ran out of gas.

Inspiration: Holocaust survivor Klara Markus, from northern Romania, who escaped three Nazi concentration camps, is getting ready to celebrate her 101st birthday

Mrs Markus was born Klara Schongut, on New Years Eve 1913, in Carei, Satu Mare County.

In August 1942, she was deported to a Jewish ghetto in Budapest, Hungary where she started work in an umbrella factory.