Anni Bleiberg: " I want to get to know people-not to be prejudiced. Hate ruins. One cannot love everyone, but we can try to like. I feel is my duty to talk and to tell of what happened....to speak for those who perished". My name is Annie Wertman Bleiberg, and I am a Holocaust survivor. I was born in a small town, Oleszyce, in Poland and moved with my parents and younger sister. Helen. to a large city, Jaroslaw. when I was twelve years old. I am a graduate of a business high school, Gymnasium Kupieckie. When the war broke out in 1939, Hitler divided Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union. Jaroslaw was on the newly created border. and all the Jews in Jaroslaw and the surrounding vicinity were expelled to the Russian-occupied part of Poland. My family and I returned to Oleszyce where my death camp Belzec where I lost my entire family. I did not want to die. and therefore, my father and I took a chance and jumped from the Belzec-bound moving train. I found my way back to Oleszyce. and. thanks to some very courageous Gentile friends, I got Aryan papers to work in Germany as a Polish peasant girl. Unfortunately, on the train to Germany, a former classmate from Jaroslaw spotted me. and I was removed from the train and taken to the Krakow police station. From there I was sent to the Ordnungs Dienst jail in the Krakower ghetto. About four weeks later, when the Krakower ghetto was liquidated. I was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. At Auschwitz. I was tattooed with a number and inverted triangle to mark me as a Jewish criminal (for trying to escape on falsified papers.) I was an inmate in Auschwitz from March 1943 until November 1944.I experienced the horrors of life in Auschwitz and witnessed the flames of the crematoria in Birkenau spewing the remains of my people. When Auschwitz was starting to be liquidated, I was sent to a work camp, Mahrisch Weiswasser. in Czechoslovakia and was liberated in May 1945 by the Russian army. From Prague. I returned to Poland to find that only my father, lsak Werman. and a neighbor. David Bleiberg. had survived. I married David and then came to the United States via Germany in September 1950. Our daughter. Susanne. was born in Bayreuth, Germany. I am the proud grandmother of Lisa, David. and Steven Seperson. At the height of my career, I was a comptroller for a large manufacturer in New York City. Iam active in Jewish community organizations, including my temple. and was president of the Natanya chapter of Women's League for Israel. After fifty years. I returned to Oleszyce and Jaroslaw and found two people who helped