Vered Kater knew from childhood that she would become a nurse. Not due to any special knowledge of the profession, but a desire to provide to others the type of intense care that delivered her from the Holocaust.

Before Ms. Kater built a legacy as a health worker, traveling to developing countries to administer aid to the needy, her early years in her native Holland, were spent in hiding. Living under cover with her “war parents'', who shielded her from the Nazis, Ms. Kater was spared from the horrors of con-centration camps.

She shared her testimony during the annual observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the Holocaust at the UN information Center (UNIC) in Yangon in 2019, and now gives an in-depth recount of her story of survival.

She speaks to Natalie Hutchison for this first edition of In Their Words: Surviving the Holocaust. Finding hope from her home in Jerusalem, with a message of warning on discrimination that goes unchallenged.

Photo Credit: UNIC Yangon

Music Credit: Ketsa