Some people help others by doing things for them and others just tell their experiences that make people never give up.

Even though this person doesn’t do things for others with her interesting story she makes people never give up and that anything is possible, the only thing that she gave up was her identity.

The person I am talking about is a 72 year old woman, Annique Dveirin.

Annique is holocaust survivor and this is her story.

Around 1933, when the holocaust started, she was only three and a half years old.

Since her mom wanted her and her three month old sister to live, so she gave them away separately.

Annique didn’t see her little sister again and her mother passed away.

The reason for this is because to all of the little kids the soldiers would put them in gas chambers right away.

The family Annique went to was not very wealthy.

They lived in a one-room house.

This family was the mother, her two sons, and another daughter, but she didn’t live with them.

These two kids were 12 years old and the other one was 10 years old and they were not very nice to Annique.

Every day the two boys would beat her up.

She lived with her “new” family for about five years, from 1940 to about 1945.

She didn’t go to school.

Instead when she was at age, she just helped her “mom” in the field.

Annique’s new mother baptized Annique.

To protect Annique more they had to give her a whole new identity and a new name too.

Her new name was Ukrainian, it was Hanka Kuznach.

They also made her pass by the daughter of her “new mom’s” daughter.

It was believable because when Annique was small she had blonde hair and blue eyes.

After all of this passed by, Annique saw her father again after World War II ended.

Annique was around eight years old when she saw her father again.

She didn’t stay with him because he couldn’t take care of her because he was in no position to take care of a child.

Annique’s father died in 1979.

She has no idea how she survived.

She said that she just felt that trouble was coming so she just stayed away from it and she also tried to not make any trouble and  that that’s how she survived but that she still has no idea how.

Now Annique is a substitute teacher and when her students find out she is a Holocaust survivor, they start asking her questions but she doesn’t really like talking about it.

She was married to Herbert Dveirin but got divorced because he was not a very good man.

They had three children.

The oldest was Kevin Dveirin, but he passed away from leukemia when he was 13 years old.

The second oldest is Brant Dveirin and he is 48 years old.

The youngest son is Keith Dveirin he is 46 years old and he is a pediatrician.

Annique said that he would never change their diapers and that he wouldn’t even do anything for them.

As Annique grew up, her blonde hair grew darker and she also doesn’t have blue eyes anymore either, they are now green.

Even though Annique never saw her family again, she still followed her dreams.

She got through all of the obstacles and just kept her mind going forward.

 Annique’s story inspires a lot of people to never give up and to do what it takes to keep alive.