Preparing to Meet Felice Newman

Hello class, this is Alex and I just wanted to share with you all our status in terms of meeting our Holocaust survivor. I have read some of the blogs posted by those of you that have already met your survivor and I am even more excited to share in that experience after doing so. I recently contacted Felice Newman who requested that we meet after Passover, so we scheduled a meeting at her home on April 8 in the evening. I have not been able to speak to her about her background yet but I did ask her if she would prefer to meet the students first in an informal setting before being interviewed or if she would like to jump right into it and she preferred the latter. However, we did receive a page of information on her in class so I do have a little bit of information to share previous to the interview:

• she was born in Lodz, Poland in 1921 to Wolf and Gita Winer
• her father was a journalist who wrote for Zionist newspapers and was deported to Sachsenhausen and died there
• she was ordered into the Lodz Ghetto along with her mother and brother in 1940
• in 1944, she and her family were deported to Auschwitz, where both her mother and brother were killed

I am eager to learn more about this phenomenal woman and will keep the class updated if I speak with her before the interview and of course after the actual interview itself. Hope you all are doing well and have had great experiences with your survivors!