Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Torch Lighter Chava Pressburger

(IsraelNationalNews.com) Chaya Pressburger is one of the six torchlighters who participated in the official openeing ceremony of this year's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day. Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority presents her story.

Chava was born in 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Otto and Marie Ginz, who met through the Esperanto movement. Chava and her older brother, Petr, grew up in a liberal, Zionist Jewish home.