`I Have to Give Something Back'

Erna Gans last saw her mother in 1942 as they hid from the Nazisin the basement of an apartment building in a Jewish ghetto inLemberg, Poland.

When the soldiers grabbed her mother and younger brother, Gansstarted to come out of her hiding place. Her mother secretlymotioned for the teen to stay out of sight.

As far as Gans knows, her mother and brother were killed inBelzec concentration camp in Poland. Her father and another brotherdied later in camps. Gans spent time in a camp, but lived.

"I don't know why I survived, but I feel that I have to givesomething back," she said. "The only way I can do that is byfighting for remembrance."

Gans has …