WCHJ invites your family and friends to attend our virtual Holocaust remembrance program

Yom HaShoah

Please join us on Tuesday, May 7, at 7:30 PM EST on Zoom for a virtual meeting with Annie Leiser-Kleinhaus, which will be followed by Q&A. To obtain the link, please register here.

You can read an interview with Annie at https://collections.ushmm.org/oh_findingaids/RG-50.030.0286_trs_en.pdf.

Anna Leiser-Kleinhaus, born in 1936 in Antwerp, Belgium, describes her life while in hiding during the war, her times in a French orphanage, posing as a Catholic in a French town with her mother and returning to Antwerp with her mother after the war and reuniting with her father after his liberation from a concentration camp. She studied in Geneva, Switzerland where she met her husband. Immigrated to the US where she received a doctorate in pharmacology and had a productive career while raising three children. Now retired she enjoys the company of her grandchildren.

Annie Leiser-Kleinhau

For more information, please call Dmitry at (914)713-8828.