IF YOU HEARD WHAT HANNAH HEARD

HANNAH SHARES THE STORY OF HER GRANDMOTHER, LILLA ANISFELD AFTERGOOD, WHO FLED KRAKOW, POLAND WITH HER FAMILY JUST AS THE WAR BROKE OUT. LILLA WAS A TEENAGER, AND HAD TO LEAVE THE LIFE SHE KNEW BEHIND DUE TO THE IMPENDING NAZI OCCUPATION OF KRAKOW. LILLA AND HER FAMILY ESCAPED EAST INTO RUSSIA, WHERE THEY TRIED TO CONTINUE ON WITH THEIR LIVES AND SURVIVING, AT TIMES, UNDER HARSH CONDITIONS. LILLA AND HER FAMILY WENT BACK TO KRAKOW AFTER THE WAR TO DISCOVER THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT THERE FOR THEM, AND THEN WENT TO PARIS WHERE LILLA MET HER HUSBAND, EDGAR AFTERGOOD, WHO WAS ALSO A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR. EDGAR AND LILLA SETTLED IN THE U.S. WHERE THEY REBUILT THEIR LIVES AND A FAMILY THAT CONTINUES TO GROW AND THRIVE TODAY.

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