Holocaust Survivor, Rena Quint, Shares Her Message With the World on Yom HaShoa

Rena Quint, originally named Freida “Freidel” Lichtenstein, was born in December 1935 in Piotrkow Tribunalski, Poland. At the age of three, in 1939, her hometown fell under Nazi occupation. By October 1942, her mother and two elder brothers were deported to Treblinka extermination camp and killed. Rena, then not yet seven, was taken with her father to a concentration camp, where she disguised herself as a boy to survive.
After her father’s murder, she found herself alone in the camp, eventually being transferred to Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Throughout her internment in various camps, Rena was taken in by different women, all of whom perished. Following the war’s end, she resettled in Sweden under the care of a Holocaust survivor who passed away shortly after.
In 1946, Rena immigrated to the United States with another Holocaust survivor who, sadly, also succumbed to health issues after three months. She was then adopted by a childless Jewish couple. Rena pursued higher education, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education. She embarked on a career as an educator, teaching at schools and lecturing at Adelphi University in New York and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1984, Rena and her husband made Aliyah to Israel with one married child and the others followed later. Nowadays she has 50 great grandchildren with 3 on the way. For over three decades, Rena has dedicated herself to volunteering at Yad Vashem, where she interacts with groups from across the globe.
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