"But if you see something, don't be a bystander. Do something about it."
--Lisl Schick, Holocaust survivor
Schick, who lived in Largo, spent the last few decades of her life telling her story so that it would never happen again. She died at 94 on June 28 of natural causes.
In Vienna, Schick’s father worked as an accountant. Her mother stayed home with the kids, her grandparents lived close by.
After Hitler came, things changed quickly.
“My Christian friends looked at me and they said ‘don’t ever speak to us again. We want nothing to do with you.’ Can you imagine your best friend saying that to you? I said ‘why? We’re not in a fight? What did I do?’
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