A potato sack helped her survive the Holocaust. She ll tell her story during virtual event. Carli Teproff, The Miami Herald
Jan. 23 Suly Chenkin was only 3 when her mother and father gave her a sleeping potion, put her in a potato sack and threw her over the barbed wire.
Her parents, she later learned, thought giving the little girl away was her only chance of survival.
This was on May 11, 1944, about three years after the Nazis invaded Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania.
Chenkin, who survived the Holocaust and was eventually reunited with her parents, will share her tale of survival as part of Holocaust and Genocide Awareness week at Florida International University. Hillel at FIU, the school s Holocaust & Genocide Studies Program, the Jewish Museum of Florida, Casa Cuba, along with several other FIU departments and organizations and other community partners have teamed up to offer a week-long schedule of virtual events including a discussion with Chenkin on Wednesday,