Rena Finder: " Oskar Schindler is a shining example that one person can make a difference. He has proven that everyone has the power to make a decision to choose to participate; not to stand by and do nothing when you see injustice done, but to take action; to say not to hate, bigotry and racism". While in New England this past summer, Dr. Siegel researched the Internet and found a resource “Facing History and Ourselves.” Lillian Fox answered her call and referred her to Rena Finder, who graciously agreed to have her portrait painted. I was ten years old when the Nazis entered Krakow, Poland, the city in which I lived. My father died in Auschwitz, but my mother and I survived, working as Jewish employees in the enamel and ammunitions factory owned by Oskar Schindler. Once he saved my life when a German foreman noticed the machine, I was working on was broken and was berating me for breaking it. I was the youngest of the factory workers, and Mr. Schindler intervened, saying: “You idiots, this little girl could not break that machine!” To all the workers, he was a god. He opened his eyes to see the sadistic murdering of the people while an indifferent world looked on. As the movie states, “He who saves one life, saves the world.” Oskar Schindler is on record as saving a great number of Jews, 1,200, during the Holocaust. He dared what no one else dared. He showed that one man can make a difference. After the war Oskar Schindler was not successful in business and the survivors tried to help him. He is buried in Israel. After the war, my mother and I lived in a displaced persons camp, where I met and married Mark Finder, who is also a Holocaust survivor. In 1948 we came to America. In the background is a collage of her entire family, which she put together. She has three daughters and six grandchildren. Rena is a resource speaker for Facing History and Ourselves, The Holocaust Center Boston, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Anti-Defamation League, and the Jewish Federation. After having her portrait painted, she left a notepad with Dr. Siegel that reads: “Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow."