I was born in 1917 in Czechoslovakia and never encountered anti-semitism until the German occupation in 1939 when I could no longer attend university. I escaped via Baghdad thanks to my future husband Imre’s visa, while my family was deported to concentration camps where only my mother miraculously survived. My journey spanned four continents—from Iraq to East Africa where I worked with the Red Cross and became chairperson of Kenya’s WIZO, to California where I built a new life with my family. Come to Portraits of Survival to learn more.