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Inge
Auerbacher.
Holocaust Survivor,
Author and
Inspirational Speaker.
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“I stand tall and proud,
My voice shouts in silence loud:
I am a real person still,
No one can break my spirit or will:
I am a star!”
From “I
Am A Star” published by Penguin Putnam Inc. |
 Inge
was born in Germany and spent three years between 7-10 years
of age in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp in
Czechoslovakia, where out of 15,000 children, about 1
percent survived. She remembers when the now famous
children’s opera Brundibar was first written and performed
while she was in Terezin. She tells her life story in three books;
"I
am a Star"- Child of the Holocaust,
"Beyond the Yellow
Star to America" and
"Finding Dr. Schatz"
- The
Discovery of Streptomycin and A Life It Saved. Inge has also reached out to the
African-American community by writing about her friends,
Mary and Martha DeSaussure; pioneering track stars of
Brooklyn in her third book,
"Running Against the Wind." As a Holocaust survivor her spirit and achievements are
truly remarkable.
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