As recently as three weeks ago, Schindler shared her tale of survival at UC San Diego's Hillel Center, drawing tears from some of in the audience
It wasn’t long before Rose Schindler’s words drew tears from her audience members, as often happened whenever the San Diego Holocaust survivor would recount the harrowing, almost miraculous tale of her survival in a Nazi concentration camp almost 80 years ago.
For many years during her young life, Schindler was not so open about the death camp she narrowly survived by lying about her age — she was 14 at the time — to avoid being herded into a line that shuttled young children directly to the gas chambers. It was only after the teacher in her son Steven’s eighth grade class learned that his mom was a Holocaust survivor that Schindler launched her decades-long role as a public speaker.
“So she started when I was in middle school,” Steven Schindler says, “and that has been the purpose that has been driving her ever since. She’s doing her dad’s bidding and in doing so, she connects with children in a remarkable way who uplift her and show her love and appreciation such a tragic thing that happened to her.
“Being a survivor, she’s lived through things none of us will ever have to live through, so she wanted to share what she had gone through in hopes the students would become leaders of their community and prevent something like this from ever happening again,” Krahn said. “The students would listen to her because of the sparkle she brought in to the room. She was the grandmother figure, light on her feet. The kids leaned into her, and you never got bored listening to her.Born Dec.
Schindler and her two sisters made their way back to their family home in Czechoslovakia to find it pilfered of all their belongings, her son said. “My mom was the principal breadwinner then,” her son said. “She was a seamstress in a factory in Manhattan making cocktail dresses. It was piece work and she was super fast, as she described it, and was making more money than the attorneys of that day.”
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