Phillis is the daughter of Holocaust survivors

Incorporates mother’s video testimony told through the Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation

Tells story of her resilience and how she survived Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen concentration camps.

Phyllis Shaw is a 2nd generation Holocaust Survivor, as her mother and father were Survivors. She tells the story of her mother, Regina, who as a teenager was deported to first a crowded ghetto near her hometown in Romania and then transported to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. From there, she miraculously found two of her nine sisters. The three did everything in their power to survive.

Phyllis charts her mother's journey from Auschwitz, to another working camp, to Bergen Belsen, to a displaced persons home in Sweden, and finally to America. Her story is one of resilience and gratitude despite everything that she went through.

Phyllis resides in Ridgefield, CT with her husband. She graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in Computer Science and enjoyed a successful career as a Customer Service and Information System Executive. She has now decided to move away from corporate life and pursue her passions. Carrying on her mother's legacy is one of those.

Phyllis is a member of GenerationsForward, a group of second and third generation individuals sponsored by the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center in White Plains, NY. She has spoken recently in the Yonkers school district at Holocaust events. and worked with a student as part of the HHREC High School Living History Project.