IF YOU HEARD WHAT DANIEL HEARD

DANIEL SHARES THE STORY OF HIS GRANDMOTHER, REBECCA LISSING, WHO GREW UP IN A CLOSE-KNIT FAMILY IN AMSTERDAM BEFORE THE WAR. SHE MET THE LOVE OF HER LIFE, HERMAN LISSING, AT THE START OF THE GERMAN INVASION. DESPITE THE ESCALATING WAR, THEY FELL IN LOVE AND MARRIED. THEY JOINED AN UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE MOVEMENT, KNOWING THE GROWING ANTISEMITIC LAWS IN AMSTERDAM WOULD ONLY WORSEN. THE COUPLE MANAGED TO ESCAPE, BUT WHILE IN HIDING, THEY WERE CAPTURED SEPARATELY. HERMAN WAS ARRESTED BY SS OFFICERS WHILE RUNNING AN ERRAND AND WAS SENT TO AUSCHWITZ. REBECCA WAS CAPTURED SOON AFTER AND ALSO TRANSPORTED TO AUSCHWITZ, WHERE SHE ENDURED FORCED LABOR UNDER INHUMANE CONDITIONS AND FOUGHT TO SURVIVE. EVERY STEP THEY TOOK WAS A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL AND FOR A CHANCE TO REUNITE. AGAINST ALL ODDS, THEY WERE REUNITED AFTER THE WAR AND MOVED TO AUSTRALIA. THEY REBUILT THEIR LIVES AND A FAMILY THAT CONTINUES TO GROW AND THRIVE TODAY.

IF YOU HEARD WHAT DANIEL HEARD, YOU WOULD NEVER FORGET.