Mrs. Charlene Schiff

Mrs. Charlene Schiff was born in 1929, and her hometown of Horochow, Poland was taken over by Nazis and turned into a ghetto. She is one of the few survivors of the ghetto. If she didn't survive, we would not have had the pleasure of listening to her story. When Mrs. Schiff escaped from her ghetto, and she was supposed to go live with a man on his farm. She escaped with her mother and sister. She hid in a river with her mother while the ghetto was being wiped out. She dozed off and when she woke up, her mother was gone. When Mrs. Schiff got to the farmer who was supposed to take care of her, the farmer only allowed her to stay for a night and after that, he would call the Nazis. Schiff ran from forest to forest hiding from the Nazis until the Soviet army found her dying in a forest and took care of her.

Mrs. Schiff is now a speaker with the holocaust museum and she fights the four evil I's (indifference, intolerance, ignorance, and injustice), and she enjoys retelling her stories and tales from the ghetto and the holocaust.