I was born in 1935 in Stryj, Poland, surviving nearly a year in the ghetto before my family and I hid in a bunker beneath a house for three years until liberation by the Russian army in 1944. After coming to America in 1946, I went from being illiterate with no English to graduating from NYU and New York Medical College, eventually practicing medicine in Santa Barbara from 1966 until 1999. I lost something precious—my youth—but I was fortunate to survive when over one million Jewish children perished in the Holocaust. Come to Portraits of Survival to learn more.