Lottie Horowitz: “I owe it to my people to perpetuate Judaism. Due to my mother's survival and my own, our family has continued to grow in spite of everything that has happened. My mother had a second child, my husband, Gene, and I have two children, who in turn, gave us six grandchildren. The Nazis were unable to destroy our people”. I was born in 1941 in Krakow. Poland. at the peak of the Naziinvasion of Poland and still feel robbed of my early childhood. I remember very little except for feelings of fear and abandonment. Because of these terrible experiences in my young years, I remained silent until recently. I still feel the emotional struggles I have dealt with all my life. Of our family, my mother and I were the only ones who survived. I never knew my father. My only memory of him is from a photograph in which he appeared to be "fleeing... During my first years my mother abandoned me in an orphanage, but I do remember her bringing me strawberries and cream. When mother remarried. she had another child a son. I then became my younger brother's mother and once again was robbed of my youth. My method of survival was by daydreaming that I was someone else. We relocated to the Bronx. New York. Eventually, I married a very understanding man and had a happy life with him in Boynton Beach, Florida. We have two children. Talking with my son about the Holocaust was difficult. He was angry about what he saw as bigotry among some of the survivors of the Holocaust. He felt there should be no intolerance. especially among those who had been subjected to it.