Description:
Hedy Bohm is a Jewish teenager from Oradea, Romania, who survives Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Fallersleben concentration camp, where she is a forced laborer at the Volkswagen factory. After liberation, Hedy, now an orphan, escapes from Communist Hungary to Canada, where she starts a family and becomes involved in Holocaust education.
Brief description:
Hedy Bohm was born in Oradea, Romania, in 1928. After the war, she married, and then immigrated to Toronto, Canada. Hedy had two children, and she and her husband owned shoe stores in downtown Toronto. Hedy is a yoga and tai chi instructor, and a Holocaust educator.