This presentation summarizes my mother's life growing up in Czechoslovakia, experiencing repression in the years leading up to 1944, suffering three concentration camps while experiencing the murder of multiple family members, liberation, convalescence in Sweden, and reunification with her older sister in the United States in 1947. Deb Moy will start the session with a brief overview of Czechoslovakia between WWI and WWII.

Moderator: Bob Mermelstein is an OLLI member who has lived in Cincinnati since graduating from college in 1972. As a chemical engineer, he worked in Research and Development for P&G. Since then, he served as a procurement manager for Habitat for Humanity and a math tutor at Bond Hill Academy (CPS). He has presented his mother's story for various groups and organizations.