Yanina cywinska biography of william hamilton

Yanina Cywinska will be the first non-Jewish death camp survivor to speak at Yom Hashoah, the annual Quad-City interfaith Holocaust remembrance service. Her appearance is highly appropriate, however, because of the woman's connection to the World War II horror that saw the extermination of 6 million people. A Polish Catholic, she was imprisoned at the age of 10 after her family was caught helping Jews in the Warsaw ghetto.

Cywinska will share her dramatic story at 7 p. The public ceremony also will honor the American soldiers who liberated thousands of Nazi death camp survivors during the final months of World War II. The Japanese-American unit helped liberate the infamous Dachau concentration camp.

The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Eva Angress on October 28, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received.

Unfortunately, Oiye will be unable to attend Sunday night because of health issues, said Allan Ross, the executive director of the Jewish Federation of the Quad-Cites. Cywinska's father, a physician, was ordered to operate on a person in a concentration camp at the beginning of the war. When he came out of there, he was a changed man," she said.

After she was called home from her studies with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, Russia, Cywinska helped her father carry medicine into the Warsaw ghetto and the family eventually was caught by the Nazis. I made it.

William Pels, born on May 11, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, discusses Yanina Cywinska, born on October 28, , describes growing up with her.

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