Maya Washburn/Contributing Writer At three years old, Suly Chenkin escaped near-death by Nazi oppression smuggled in a burlap potato sack while her parents were sent to concentration camps. The family reunited three years later in Havana, Cuba. Chenkin shared her life story of survival yesterday at FIU’s sixth annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony. “My first pandemic […]
Cristina Gonzalez/Entertainment Director Overcrowding, disease, famine, loss, utter horror. That’s what 80-year-old Suly Chenkin recalls when she speaks about her childhood. It’s what she calls the “survival of her first pandemic, a pandemic of hate.” Chenkin, who was born in Kovno, Lithuania, was only 10 months old when Nazi soldiers invaded her hometown, taking her […]
