Inge Auerbaucher, the only child of religious Jewish parents, enjoyed a comfortable life in Kippenheim, Germany.  Her family lived in a large home with servants.  However, this life was shattered on Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938), when her home was vandalized and her father and grandfather were arrested.  They were later released, but the trauma of these events foreshadowed the horrors to come.  At the young age of seven, Inge and her parents were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia.  Life in Theresienstadt was brutal, marked by hunger, fear, and illness.  Inge's parents, determined to preserve some semblance of normalcy, made her small gifts for her birthdays – a tiny potato cake, a doll outfit made from rags, and a poem.  After enduring nearly three years in Theresienstadt, Inge and her parents were liberated on May 8, 1945.  They subsequently immigrated to the United States in May 1946.

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