Rosita Ehrlich Kenigsberg: " Our parent's legacy is not about death and despair, but about life and life reborn. Despite their tragic and painful past, they are once again dear to sing, dare to dance, dear to dream, dare to shed tears of happiness and joy, and they even dare to start new families in new homes they created. Their wondrous story of survival is a testament of their inner strength, heroic defiance, and remarkable courage and conviction". Rositta Ehrlich Kenigsberg is the daughter of Holocaust survivor Henry Ehrlich, who was born in Miedzyrzec. Poland. When the Nazis came. he was in the ghetto and then was interned in several concentration camps, including Majdanek. He was transferred to Starachowice. the largest ammunitions factory in Poland. From there he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and then to Buna. In January 1945. he was on a death march and ended up in Dora-Mittelbau where V-2 rockets were made. Finally, he was liberated in Mauthausen in May 1945. After liberation, he married. and his daughter Rosina was born in a displaced persons camp in Austria. The family then immigrated to Montreal, Canada, in 1951. Because of the political situation. the family left Montreal and moved to South Florida in 1979. Currently, Rositta serves as the Executive Vice President of the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, Inc. the organization she has been a part of in various capacities for more than twenty-four years. She always has been inspired by her father's words: "As long as there is someone to tell the story, there is life. And as long as there is someone to listen. there is hope." Today, the center. which began in 1980 as a vision of a few as a living memorial that recorded eye­ witness testimony and taught the lessons of the Holocaust to young people, has become a stunningly successful and world-recognized institution. Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation. the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. the Raoul Wallenberg Project, the Simon Wiesenthal Center. and the United Nations have all sought the center's expertise in developing their oral history projects. One of the profound and compelling achievements of the center. and one of which Rositta is most proud, is the Holocaust mandate, which ensures that every single Florida student from kindergarten through college and university will be taught Holocaust education. Rositta was the Founding Chair of the Children of Survivors of South Florida and from 1983 to 1986 she served as a second-generation advisor to Nobel Prize recipient Elie Wiesel. who. at the time, was chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council in 1990.