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Gita (Giselle) Cycowicz was born in 1927 in the town of Chust in the Carpathian Mountains, at that time under Czechoslovak rule. (Courtesy of Bosque School)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Seventy-six years to the day after the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland were liberated, seventh-graders at Albuquerque’s Bosque School heard about the horrors of that experience firsthand from a Holocaust survivor, who now lives in Israel.
Gita (Giselle) Cycowicz, 93, spoke to the children during an online Zoom conference on Wednesday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. An estimated 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
The students have been studying the Holocaust since the beginning of the school year. They listened to interviews with survivors recorded by Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation and other sources “and then created art, because art helps us tell stories and it humanizes