Anita was born in 1928 in Lwow in Poland, which became the city of Lviv in Ukraine. In 1941, Anita, her two sisters and her parents were forced to leave everything behind and join the Lwow ghetto.

The living conditions there were horrific. Anita’s mother refusing to see her daughters die in this place, managed to escape with her daughters. But for the plan to work, her father had to stay behind. Anita’s mother then obtained false papers enabling them to hide in a Polish village.

Her father escaped from the ghetto, hid in the same village, but was eventually shot. At the end of the war, Anita, her sisters and her mother joined an uncle in Peru. Among the 150,000 Jews in the ghetto, only 200 survived. Anita is one of those.

In this course you will learn to:

• Define the Holocaust as the planned and systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. 
• Define antisemitism as prejudice against or hatred of Jewish people.
• Recognize the Holocaust as history’s most extreme example of antisemitism. 
• Understand the roles of rescuers, bystanders, and upstanders during the Holocaust.

• Guidelines for Teaching About the Holocaust — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm.org):

  https://www.ushmm.org/teach/fundamentals/age-appropriateness

• Horrors of Auschwitz: The Numbers Behind WWII’s Deadliest Concentration Camp:
  https://www.history.com/news/auschwitz-concentration-camp-numbers

• Timeline of major events that occurred before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust:
  https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/resource-center/timeline.html

• Horrors of Auschwitz: The Numbers Behind WWII’s Deadliest Concentration Camp:
  https://www.history.com/news/auschwitz-concentration-camp-numbers