San Antonio Survivor - Anna Levit

Anna Levit was born in Poland. She was put into the Vilno Ghetto in Lithuania and then was sent to concentration camps in Latvia and Germany. As the British liberators approached Stutthoff, the prisoners were put on barges into the Baltic Sea and abandoned. Her father and three brothers were killed by the Nazis, only she and her mother survived in Europe. After the war, she joined her sister who had previously immigrated to Mexico and came to San Antonio in 1949.

Anna is now deceased but, her daughter speaks to groups for the museum to tell her survival experience as a Second Generation speaker.