"They Gave Me Life" - The Story of Rena Quint

Rena Quint was born as Freida "Freidel" Lichtenstein in December 1935 in the city of Piotrkow Tribunalski, Poland. In 1939, when Rena was three years old, the Nazis invaded and occupied her hometown. In October 1942, her mother and her two older brothers were deported to the extermination camp of Treblinka where they were murdered. Rena, who was not yet seven years old, was deported with her father to a concentration camp, where she pretended to be a boy in order to survive. When Rena's father was murdered, she was left alone in the camp. She was finally sent to Bergen Belsen concentration camp. In the various camps she was interned she was adopted by different women, but they all died. At the end of the war, Rena went to Sweden, where she was adopted by a Holocaust survivor who passed away a few months later. In 1946, Rena emigrated to the United States with an adoptive mother, also a Holocaust survivor, who after three months also passed away as a result of her poor physical condition. Rena was then adopted by a Jewish couple who didn't have children. Rena earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in education and worked as a teacher in schools and, as a lecturer at Adelphi University in New York and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1984, Rena and her husband emigrated to Israel with their four children who were already married. Rena has been volunteering for more than 30 years at Yad Vashem where she meets with groups from around the world.
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[@Аннаанна1975]

Amazing woman ! My granny surviver the #lodzghetto near piotrkow trybunalski. Never again. Warm Greetings from Poland

[@khangelwakhathi508]

Unbelievable that people had their lives ripped apart like this!! The cruelty of human's is just unbelievable!!😭😭😭😭😭

[@kashyap3120]

Tears in eyes. I pray for this great women and wish her family a healthy prosperous peaceful life. Love and respect from India

[@brianpeters7847]

How incredibly sad.. heartbreaking to see big families and know what is there fate..
So happy she survived to tell their story...

[@janetpattison8474]

Wonderful amazing story of love, terrible loss, and survival. The journey of soul continues on & on throughout eternity.

[@firefeethok_tui2355]

This is one of the best Holocaust survivor stories that I listen to. This lady is amazing obviously talented and beautifuly spirited.

[@raluchka]

What a remarkable woman!

[@marisolflores9594]

My heart 💔. I love them all.

[@Susiesvideos44]

You are the voice of hope. Thank you.

[@2007Tarkus]

Powerful documentary very brave woman

[@Msrussianbeauty20]

Remarkable!!! Absolutely remarkable woman!!!!

[@bambinomalle37]

Wow what an amazing woman and life, God bless her.

[@shanessareilly122]

Your amazing ..I truly admire you your father a very clever man..I have no words ❤️

[@juliearmstrong1463]

Very sad and beautiful..

[@arlenedeborahdeleon2460]

God mightily walk with you through your journey here & beyond. From a friend in the Philippines.

[@noelcotter1057]

Truly an amazing journey. I promise I will tell my children your story.

[@robert-pj3bc]

God bless you Rena - respect from NJ.

[@melodypanek448]

Thank you for sharing your story. You are very eloquent.

[@agapiparis]

God bless you dear soul.God loves you and you will see your family again.I'm Greek but have been taught by all my family that Israel and the Jewish people are God's chosen 🕊️🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇱.

[@sylvanatabone9451]

Unbelievable what these people had to go through. No words. One question that I often ask myself is how they got hold of some of their family's photographs after the war when everything seems to have been destroyed.

[@richenh.6009]

Lovely woman💕

[@maheshdewapura7924]

Good bless you and your family

[@elisabethwoudstra3931]

Respekt!!! I wish you the best 💝

[@shwethamahajan8319]

U were a brave girl

[@QuangLe-nm7ck]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@wzukr]

She doesn´t even remember her first name, there is no name "Fredzia" in Poland! In fact she was "Frajda", a typical Jewish name in Poland.