Itka Zygmuntowicz
lost her entire family at Auschwitz. She herself survived, came to the U.S.
after liberation, raised a family, and became an award-winning writer and
poet. In recent years she has been active in speaking on behalf of the
Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. She has participated in reunions
of Holocaust survivors and memorial ceremonies at former camps, and appeared
in a documentary on the Holocaust entitled, "From Out of the
Ashes."
