Anna Leiser-Kleinhaus, born in 1936 in Antwerp, Belgium, describes her life while in hiding during the war, her times in a French orphanage, posing as a Catholic in a French town with her mother and  returning to Antwerp with her mother after the war and reuniting with her father after his liberation from a concentration camp.

She studied in Geneva, Switzerland where she met her husband. She immigrated to the US where she received a doctorate in pharmacology and had a productive career while raising three children. Since retiring, she spends her time advocating against antisemitism. By telling her story to audiences of various backgrounds and walks of life, she hopes that the horrors of the past will never again be repeated.

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