![]() ![]() Later on Anita became a well known illustrator of children’s books. The Kempler family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York, in 1952. ![]() ![]() Their mother had survived the war in Krakow and their father had escaped to Uzbekistan. Eventually, through the Red Cross, the children were reunited with their parents. In 1945, Anita and Bernard were liberated and sent to Sweden by the Red Cross. He risked his life insisting that if the children were not allowed to live he would never work for them again.Īnita and Bernard were later deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau for a brief time, but in the face of the impending invasion by Russian forces, the children were sent to Ravensbrück, a concentration camp that held women only. Fortunately, their mother’s oldest brother, Sigmund Greenberg, was an architect and engineer, and was very much needed by the Nazis. The Kempler children managed to return to their home in the ghetto and were hidden for a while in a cloister, until they were discovered and sent to Plaszow concentration camp. In 1942, Anita and her two year younger brother Bernard, escaped from the ghetto and were hidden by their governess, Rozalia. ![]()
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