WOODCLIFF LAKE—Sunday, Dec. 4, Holocaust survivor Itu Lustig, of Brooklyn, N.Y., turns 94. She is celebrating her birthday by sharing her incredible story with teens and community.
This is the first time she is sharing her story in New Jersey. Valley Chabad says “She will show the teens and community the numbers on her arm. She will tell of the scars she lives with after the Nazis killed her family. She will inspire us to live life to fullest as beacons of light.”
In response to recent Anti-semitism by influential people in American society, Valley Chabad’s Eternal Flame will be hosting an evening with Auschwitz survivor Itu Lustig.
The invitation says “Itu’s incredible story of survival in the Holocaust will make you cry, yet it will also make you sing.”
Born in Romania, Lustig was 12 when the Nazis rounded up all the Jews in her town. Her parents and six siblings were all stuffed into the cattle cars off for Auschwitz.
Through the selection process of Dr. Josef Mengele — also known as the Angel of Death — getting a number tattooed on her arm, the death march, and later Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, she emerged as the lone survivor of her family.
Today, living in Brooklyn, she is a proud great-great-grandmother filled with faith.
The event is Dec. 4 at 3:30 p.m. at Woodcliff Lake Hilton. To register, visit eternalflame.org or call (201) 476-0157.