Kitty Felix and her mother had been on the run for four years. The Nazis had taken over their home country of Poland in 1939. The Felixes were Jewish, and the Nazis were persecuting Jews. No place was safe. They had fake documents, thanks to a Catholic priest, but someone told the Nazis that they were Jews. That was the beginning of Kitty's imprisonment.

They were told they were being sent to Auschwitz, but Mrs. Felix was confused. Auschwitz was a beautiful city, filled with ponds and meadows. Why would they be sent there? Mrs. Felix and Kitty didn’t know about what was happening there, how the Nazis had filled the city with work camps and death camps. Kitty and her mother spent the next two years as prisoners in some of the worst places on Earth.

After the war was over, Kitty and her mother were released. Kitty found that hardly anybody knew about what happened during the Holocaust, and many didn’t want to know. “That sounds far-fetched,” people would say when she told her story.  Even her uncle said to her, “I don't want you to talk about anything that happened to you. I don't want to know.”

People needed to know! The Holocaust was able to happen only because too many people pretended it wasn’t happening. If people didn’t talk about it, it might happen again. 

So Kitty, now married and named Kitty Hart-Moxon, dedicated her life to telling her story.  She talks about how she’s alive because of teamwork, how the prisoners on a crowded train car would take turns getting breathable air through a crack in the floor. She tells people about the kindness of complete strangers, like the German woman who risked her own life every day to hide food for Kitty. Mostly, she talks about how everybody makes choices, and its up to us – will we choose to help others?

She has made it a point to talk to school groups.  Why?  In her words, “Because discrimi­nation and bullying starts in the playground. Some say you need to start teaching early – if you don't, you miss the train.”