Vivianne Spiegel was one of the lucky ones – surviving the Holocaust along with her two siblings.
Now, on a speaking tour of New Zealand schools, sponsored by the Zionist Federation of New Zealand, working to sustain Jewish identity, she is sharing her story.
Astrid Austin speaks to her about her harrowing childhood and life now.
Vivianne Spiegel’s hand lovingly rests on her siblings’ shoulders. Their innocence shining through the black and white photograph. They were just children.
But life as they knew it was cut short when German forces occupied their country and the Nazi regime began targeting Jewish people – tearing their family apart. It was Paris, 1941.
She was six, her brother Albert four and sister Regine two months old when their father, Morsko was captured and turned over to the Nazis.
