Children of Terror

Inge Auerbacher was born in 1934 in Kippenheim, Germany. She was imprisoned from 1942 to 1945 in the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. She immigrated to the United States in 1946, and currently lives in New York City. Auerbacher graduated from Queens College in New York City with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. She worked for thirty-eight years in medical research and clinical work. She is retired and travels to many countries to speak about the Holocaust and about tolerance. Author of: I Am A Star — Child of the Holocaust Beyond the Yellow Star to America Running Against the Wind Finding Dr. Schatz — The Discovery of Streptomycin and A Life It Saved Highway to New York Honors and Awards: • New York State Senate Woman of Distinction, 2009 • Among the first honorees into the New York City Hall of Fame, 2007 • Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Long Island University, New York City, 2005 • Ellis Island Medal of Honor, 1999 • Louis E. Yavner Citizen Award, 1999 • Queens College of the City of New York Alumni Star, 1998 • Many other citations of honor from various governmental agencies Bozenna Urbanowicz was born in 1934 in Leonowka, a small town in the far eastern province of Wolyn, Poland. In the 1940s, she — along with her parents, brother and two sisters — were transported first to Freiberg, Germany, and then to the Chemnitz Labor Camp, where they remained for the duration of the war. After the war ended, her family, with the exception of her mother, joined relatives in America. They did not see their mother until several years later, when she found them and came to America. Urbanowicz studied draping, fashion design and sewing in high school and earned her living in the fashion industry. She is married to Richard V. Gilbride and has four children and three grandsons. She spends much of her time traveling in America and abroad, telling her story of surviving the Holocaust of World War II. Honors and Awards: • Commission member of the Founding of the Nassau County Holocaust Learning Center • Recipient of the Louis E. Yavner Award by the New York State Board of Regents, Department for “Outstanding Contribution to Teaching the Holocaust and other Violations of Human Rights” • Ellis Island Medal of Honor • Member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., where she donated artifacts and gave testimony as a Polish Catholic Holocaust survivor • Raised funds for the Zegota Monument in Warsaw, Poland • Awarded “Honorary Righteous Gentile” Medal by the Polish president of Righteous Among Nations, Jerzy P. Sliwczynski • Received three “Cross of Merit” medals from three Polish presidents • Associate producer of the documentary Zegota, Council of Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland 1942-1945 • Served on the National Polish American-Jewish American Council • Contributed her story to Professor Richard C. Lukas’ book, Forgotten Survivors • Board member, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Long Island Chapter • Thirteen other awards, commendations and certificate of merit from senators, congressmen and local civic leaders

Inge Auerbacher was born in 1934 in Kippenheim, Germany. She was imprisoned from 1942 to 1945 in the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. She immigrated to the United States in 1946, and currently lives in New York City. Auerbacher graduated from Queens College in New York City with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. She worked for thirty-eight years in medical research and clinical work. She is retired and travels to many countries to speak about the Holocaust and about tolerance. Author of: I Am A Star — Child of the Holocaust Beyond the Yellow Star to America Running Against the Wind Finding Dr. Schatz — The Discovery of Streptomycin and A Life It Saved Highway to New York Honors and Awards: • New York State Senate Woman of Distinction, 2009 • Among the first honorees into the New York City Hall of Fame, 2007 • Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Long Island University, New York City, 2005 • Ellis Island Medal of Honor, 1999 • Louis E. Yavner Citizen Award, 1999 • Queens College of the City of New York Alumni Star, 1998 • Many other citations of honor from various governmental agencies Bozenna Urbanowicz was born in 1934 in Leonowka, a small town in the far eastern province of Wolyn, Poland. In the 1940s, she — along with her parents, brother and two sisters — were transported first to Freiberg, Germany, and then to the Chemnitz Labor Camp, where they remained for the duration of the war. After the war ended, her family, with the exception of her mother, joined relatives in America. They did not see their mother until several years later, when she found them and came to America. Urbanowicz studied draping, fashion design and sewing in high school and earned her living in the fashion industry. She is married to Richard V. Gilbride and has four children and three grandsons. She spends much of her time traveling in America and abroad, telling her story of surviving the Holocaust of World War II. Honors and Awards: • Commission member of the Founding of the Nassau County Holocaust Learning Center • Recipient of the Louis E. Yavner Award by the New York State Board of Regents, Department for “Outstanding Contribution to Teaching the Holocaust and other Violations of Human Rights” • Ellis Island Medal of Honor • Member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., where she donated artifacts and gave testimony as a Polish Catholic Holocaust survivor • Raised funds for the Zegota Monument in Warsaw, Poland • Awarded “Honorary Righteous Gentile” Medal by the Polish president of Righteous Among Nations, Jerzy P. Sliwczynski • Received three “Cross of Merit” medals from three Polish presidents • Associate producer of the documentary Zegota, Council of Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland 1942-1945 • Served on the National Polish American-Jewish American Council • Contributed her story to Professor Richard C. Lukas’ book, Forgotten Survivors • Board member, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Long Island Chapter • Thirteen other awards, commendations and certificate of merit from senators, congressmen and local civic leaders