by Kim Sampson
May 21, 2008
ABC – Eyewitness NewsWDIO-TV
Video presentation of this story by Eyewitness News in Minnesota: http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/S450502.shtml?cat=10335.
Anita’s Story
The Holocaust saw over six million Jews killed and millions more tortures.
The survivor’s from that time are becoming fewer and fewer as generations change hands. One of those survivor’s is eighty-one year old, Anita Dittman.
Anita now lives in Northern Minnesota and recently sat down with us to tell us what it was like to live under Hitler’s oppression…here is Anita’s story.
Anita reflects, “I remember a time sitting outside, I must’ve been about eight years old or so…i was just waiting for a playmate to come out, instead six other girls came out and beat me up and called me “Jew Bread”.
Anita Dittman’s childhood was filled with memories of discrimination and hatred, simply because she was Jewish. Adolf Hitler rose to power telling Germans they were the Master Race. Anita states, “and all undesirables had to be eliminated and of course the Jewish people were at the top of that list.”
Soon, neighbors and friends disappeared. They were pulled from their homes and sent to so-called “work camps” never to be seen again. Anita and her family waited.
Anita recalled, “What was tough was that fear that at any moment there might be that knock at the front door.”
One day the knock on the door came. First, Anita’s mother was taken, seven months later, Anita…herself…
—For excerpts and more information on Anita’s book, Trapped in Hitler’s Hell, click here.
