Watch below to hear Shelley Rood Wernick from 3GDC share her grandfather's story of survival as compiled through the WEDU program.

In October 1939 the Germans invaded Poland and forced their way in to Shelley's grandfather's Warsaw apartment. Her grandpa's life was spared then, but this moment launched a period of forced labor, hiding, concentration camp, disease, and profound destruction and loss. This is the harrowing history of Hersch Berman - educator, zionist, and Holocaust survivor - told by his granddaughter Shelley, who listened to her grandpa's words again and again growing up in Miami.