Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 14, 1995                   TAG: 9504140006
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: TERESA OGLE SPECIAL TO THE ROANOKE TIMES & WORLD-NEWS
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SHINDLER'S LIST RESCUED TEEN-AGER FROM HOLOCAUST

Perl, now 72, will visit Virginia Tech on April 19 to share her experience and her message. She'll talk about her life before the war, during the German occupation, and trials suffered by the Jewish people.

Anna Perl started her life in the ski resort town of Zakopane, Poland, a beautiful, cultural city. When the city was occupied, she could no longer attend school. Her family was told the city was too beautiful for Jews to be allowed to stay.

Jews from there - and other places in Poland - were loaded into trucks and resettled into ghettos. Anna's family, the Duklauers, was moved to a one-room apartment in Krakow.

In 1942, Anna, her father and her sister were taken to Plaszow.

Anna Perl was given a hammer and told to break tombstones to pave the roads. She worked in a laundry washing clothes by hand. After several months, she was taken to the factory where Schindler became her boss. Perl was one of 1,100 Jews, who, by working in Schindler's enamel war factory during the Holocaust, was saved from certain death.

The war years were strenuous and depressing. It wasn't until after the war ended that she began tracking down what happened to other members of her family - and the ways they had died.

``The reason I am talking about it,'' she says, ``I want to spread the message that this can't happen again. We must learn this lesson so that history does not repeat itself. There are Nazis and other oppressive groups forming right now, only 50 years later, who would like to see it happen again.''

Perl will speak April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Brush Mountain Room of Squires Student Center.