DoNotHate Podcast’s third guest speaker is Celia Kener, a Holocaust survivor and a speaker. 
Celia Kener was born in 1935 in Lvov, Poland. When the Germans invaded in 1941, life totally changed. Her father was drafted into the Russian army while the rest of her family moved into the ghetto. Celia’s mother was selected for a labor camp and was periodically brought in to visit the family on weekends. Celia’s mother found a childless Catholic couple and promised her daughter to them because she didn’t think that she would survive.
Celia was eventually reunited with her mother. The family was liberated by the Russians. Her father escaped the Russian army to an Uzbekistan Displaced Persons camp under an assumed name and survived.
Celia and her parents came to the US in 1949.
Together, we talked about her childhood pre war, hiding days in the ghetto, isolation, the importance of being an upstander, and her journey to the United States after spending years in the displaced refugee camps. Most importantly we talked about the importance of remembering the Holocaust and  why it’s important to keep telling the stories of over 6 million mothers, fathers, grandchildren, children, brothers and sisters, all murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in the Holocaust.

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