Ilse, who was 21/2 months short of her twelfth birthday, was deported from the Jewish orphanage in Prague in mid-October, 1942. She arrived in the concentration camp Terezin, called by the Nazis the "Jewish paradise," when in reality it was the gateway to Auschwitz. Today when Ilse speaks to various groups, mainly school children, she refers to this place as "the center of foolery." She is one of the hundred children out of fifteen thousand who survived Terezin and the horrific typhus epidemic which took the lives of many. Deported for the second time, she found herself in Birkenau/Auschwitz...
Ilse, who was 21/2 months short of her twelfth birthday, was deported from the Jewish orphanage in Prague in mid-October, 1942. She arrived in the con...
