Guest speaker/Holocaust Survivor  Lisl Bogart is the only member of her extended family of 43 who survived the Holocaust.  Lisl was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on May 7, 1926. She was forced to leave school soon after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. In 1942, she was deported with her family to the Terezin Concentration Camp which was in Czechoslovakia.

In September 1943, her parents and her brother were taken from there to the infamous death camp Aushwitz where they perished.

When she came to the U.S. after the war, Lisl lived in Illinois and was a director of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois.

Now living in Florida, she has been intensely involved in Holocaust education, speaking in schools, universities, churches, and synagogues.

Lisl speaks to our MDCPS teachers at all of Dr Klein Kassenoff's seminars and Holocaust Institutes; most recently in February at the Annual Advanced Holocaust Institute for over 100 of our teachers at the University of Miami co-sponsored by WLRN.

Lisl is the mother of two children and has five grandchildren. We were honored to have her here today to say a few words in memory of Holocaust Remembrance Week.