IF YOU HEARD WHAT AMY HEARD

AMY SHARES THE STORY OF HER GRANDMOTHER, SYLVIA BERNHUT, WHO WAS BORN INTO AN URBAN, CLOSE-KNIT FAMILY IN WARSAW, POLAND IN 1927. SYLVIA DESCRIBED HER UPBRINGING AS GROWING UP IN A HOUSEHOLD FILLED WITH MUSIC, LAUGHTER, AND LOVE. WHEN GERMANY INVADED POLAND IN 1939, THEIR HAPPY LIVES CHANGED FOREVER. SYLVIA AND HER FAMILY WERE FORCED INTO THE WARSAW GHETTO, WHERE CONDITIONS WERE HARSH AND UNIMAGINABLE. SYLVIA ULTIMATELY SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST BY WORKING AT A NAZI BAR IN GERMANY, HIDING HER JUDAISM THE ENTIRE TIME. AFTER THE WAR, SHE MIRACULOUSLY RECONNECTED WITH HER OLDER BROTHER, THE ONLY OTHER SURVIVING MEMBER OF HER IMMEDIATE FAMILY. SYLVIA MET HER HUSBAND, ALSO A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, AT A RELOCATION CENTER, AND HE HELPED HER FIND HER BROTHER. SYLVIA AND HER HUSBAND MOVED TO THE U.S. AND REBUILT THEIR LIVES, A LOVING FAMILY, AND ONE THAT CONTINUES THEIR FAMILY TRADITIONS OF MUSIC AND THE JEWISH TRADITIONS.

IF YOU HEARD WHAT AMY HEARD, YOU WOULD NEVER FORGET.

Holocaust Survival: The Warsaw Ghetto, Nazi Germany