Hear Holocaust child survivor Litzi Lemberg tell her story of a past filled with pain and her ultimate healing. Litzi was born in 1939 in Vienna, Austria. She was a baby when World War II broke out.

Litzi came to learn that her parents and brother had been murdered in the Holocaust and she was the sole survivor of her immediate family.

Litzi thought the couple who brought her up were her parents, she was seventeen when she found out the truth. This is the story of Litzi’s long journey to find out who she really was, a Holocaust survivor and more.

Image: Litzi holds a photograph of herself and other children who all spent time in Theresienstadt. Photography by Katherine Griffith.