Never far away

"Anna Heilman was born into the comfort and security of an assimilated Jewish family in prewar Warsaw. Her happy life was shattered when German troops overran Poland in September 1939 and the Jewish people in Warsaw were gradually segregated into a "Jewish Quarter." Anna and her family were captured and taken from this ghetto and shipped first to Majdanek (where her parents were killed almost immediately), and then on to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Anna's sister was hanged by camp authorities in January 1945 for the role she played in blowing up one of Birkenau's crematoria in October of 1944. Nev...