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We Meet a Naples Woman Who Has Spent Decades Raising Awareness About the Holocaust

Felicia Anchor in front of the Nashville Holocaust Memorial
Felicia Anchor in front of the Nashville Holocaust Memorial

This episode originally aired on January 26, 2021.

It’s been 76 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland by Soviet soldiers. It’s estimated that between 1.1 and 1.5 million people, the vast majority of them Jews, died in the camp. In the decades since there have been ongoing efforts to raise awareness about the atrocities committed by Germany during the war, including the creation of memorials and museums around the United States.

On today’s show we meet a Naples woman who has spent more than four decades as an advocate for awareness and education. Both of Felicia Anchor’s parents were holocaust survivors, and she was born shortly after the war, one of 2,000 babies born from the end of the war until the displaced persons camp her parents were living in closed.

She and her husband Kenneth chaired the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 2021 ‘What You Do Matters’ Southeast Virtual Event on February 11, 2021. It sought to inspire people to remember the lessons of the Holocaust and to help combat modern-day antisemitism and hatred. Mrs. Anchor played a key role in financially supporting the Naples Holocaust Museum, working with a community of survivors and docents to expand the initial exhibit into a museum that now serves six counties.