Holocaust Survivor Biographies
ANNE LEVY
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Before the Second World War, Anne Levy lived in Lodz, Poland, with
her father Mark, mother Ruth, and younger sister Lila. The family
name was Skorecki. Anne was four years old when the Germans invaded
Poland. The family left Lodz and went to Warsaw, where they spent
two years in the Warsaw Ghetto. Mark had "golden hands' (he could
build anything) and became a "manager" in a Germany factory inside
the ghetto. He built a secret compartment at the bottom of a
"vegetable bin," and here the two girls were hidden from the Nazis
and their collaborators. In January 1943, with the aid of a Polish
Army officer, Mark arranged for the family to be smuggled out of the
ghetto to the "Aryan side" of Warsaw. "Passing" as Christians, and
with the help of Christians, the Skoreckis narrowly survived the
rest of the war. Afterwards the family lived in the German town
Tirschenreuth. In 1949, the family immigrated to New Orleans. Anne
and her husband have four daughters.
In 1989, Anne repeatedly confronted David Duke, a Holocaust denier
and former Klansman who was running for political office in
Louisiana.
In the 1960s, Anne's mother Ruth dictated an account of the family's
war-time experiences to a seminarian. With that account, and after
extensive research in Poland and Israel, historian Lawrence N.
Powell wrote a book titled, Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, The
Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana, which was published in 2000.
This series was funded by the Rita and Harold Divine Foundation, the Siggy Boraks Family,
and made possible by the generous contribution of video production services of WDSU-TV in
New Orleans.
Copyright © 2007 by the Southern Institute for Education and Research. Permission is granted
to copy the videos for educational, non-profit purposes only.
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