Aiken resident shares story on chilling Holocaust experience

Judith Evans, a Holocaust survivor ,shared her story with USCA students on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 4:30 p.m in the SAC Mezz. Judith was born in Germany and was only five years old when the Holocaust happened. She and her brother both survived the Holocaust and experienced many painful and emotional events during the Holocaust.

To this day she still remembered the feelings of her mother’s hands and the smell of burning houses and buildings from those days. Judith remembered the last memories she had of her mother was when the police forced her mom into a pick-up car and drove her away to an unknown destination.

Judith’s grandmother was taken by Nazi to a Jewish Cemetery, along with some other women who could no longer work, and was left to die. Later Judith and her brother was adopted by the nuns; she later mentioned the nuns taking a big risk knowing that Judith and her brother are Jewish, but were still willing to adopt them.

Judith later became a teacher, because she loves working with kids. She stated that she loves taking care of children because “when you are taking care of a child, you are taking care of a child inside you.” She ended her session by telling the audience that a part of her wanting to be a teacher is because she wanted to teach children to be open minded.

Giuseppe Cimino, a Junior at USCA, commented after the event stating that “It was a very moving speech, she was amazing. The story of what she had done and what she been through was very interesting. I am very glad I attended the event and learned something new.”

For students who were unable to attend the event, Judith would like to send a message about her story and how she thinks it would be a nice message for students that couldn’t attend.

Believe in yourself, be true to yourself and be brave.