Greti Herman does what she can…

Photo by David Miller

My friend Pini’s mother in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal:
Greti was soon banned from school. Some nights, Nazis pounded on the family’s apartment door, forcing them outside, on hands and knees, with a bucket and brush…
… Greti dashed across the street…
A half-hour later, after the train connected with a second one filled with Jews from surrounding villages, it departed, headed, they later learned, for Auschwitz. It was July 9, 1944, Greti’s 21st birthday….
Greti walked into her grandfather’s bedroom to discover he had hanged himself. His note said he refused to wear a yellow star…
… The next day the family escaped the train to Auschwitz by hiding in the ditch…
the Nazis were conducting surprise raids, Janos pulled on a string that reached from the main house to Greti’s big toe, alerting them to climb into the wall cavity…
A 20-year survivor of pancreatic cancer and survivor of two strokes, Greti, now 88…
“I do what I can,” she said.
CORRECTION about the article:
Actually in Vienna Jews were asked to scrub the ground to clean up election slogans left by the different factions.