Dignity: Regina Katz Weber was born in Hungary in 1927. She was sent to Auschwitz, where her mother and youngest sister were killed. Regina, her two older sisters and a group of other young women were naked and humiliated after they given cold showers and had their heads shaved. But with some rags Regina found, she made head coverings for her sisters and herself. In the ghetto, Regina's mother warned here that in dangerous times it was important to know a trade. So, her mother taught her to sew. For the moment, the sisters were able to reclaim some sense of their identity.
Regina and her sisters survived and sailed on one of the first ships to the United States. She supported her siblings by sewing and designing clothes for New York's fashion industry.
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