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1) HOW CHEAP LIFE WAS! Born in 1923 in Poland, Anna Dula was 16 years-old when the Nazis invaded her country. One day, she found out that her cousins were starving to death in the Warsaw ghetto, so she decided to go to the Polish capital and smuggle food in the ghetto.
2) As Anna had blond hair and blue eyes, she pretended to be a Polish woman who wished to sell food to the Jews, and the guards let her in. Everything went perfectly well, but on her way home, Anna was grabbed by an SS soldier.
3) The fear on her face betrayed her and the SS immediately knew she was Jewish. Punishment for impersonating a non-Jew was death, so she was taken to the Gestapo Headquarters and given a shovel to dig her own grave.
4) Anna recalled: "I started to dig and was thinking I was really sorry for my mother. She didn't want me to go, and I didn't listen. She's going to cry and cry." Unable to finish digging her grave before it got dark, she was put in a cell.
5) Anna was told that her execution would wait until the next day. But the next morning, an SS soldier opened her cell and told Anna that she could leave. She later found out that the Jewish Council bribed an officer to save her.
6) Looking back on that bribe, Anna said: "How cheap life was." Anna was later arrested for failing to carry identification and sent to Auschwitz, but she survived the Holocaust and went home. That's when she discovered that her entire family had been murdered by the Nazis.
7) In 1961, this exceptional woman emigrated to the United States and became a teacher at Kadimah Academy in Buffalo, New York. Anna is now 97 years-old.
