Daughter of a Survivor

Ruth Barnett tells the story of her mother, Irene Levin, who was born Josepha Weil in 1927. Josepha was the child of a large, prosperous, secular family in the Sudetenland, a German corridor of western Czechoslovakia. Between 1941 and 1945, Josepha survived Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and a 200-mile forced march through ice and snow. Freed when the British liberated Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, she immigrated to the United States in 1947, married, and raised three children.

Presented by Dayton Metro Library in collaboration with The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education through The Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center.