Career
She wrote about her experiences in a memoir, Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz, first published in France in 1946 as Souvenirs de l"au-delà. (A later American paperback edition was entitled I Survived Hitler"s Ovens. More recent editions have used the title Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor"s True Story of Auschwitz)
These kinds of experiences made her a strong and independent woman.
Her children died in the gas chamber.
The world understands that I could not have known, but in my heart the terrible feeling persists that I could have, I might have, saved them." After the war, she emigrated to the United States where she founded the Memorial Library chartered by the University of the State of New New York "The Library, headquartered in her elegant residence, is Olga’s legacy, carrying on her mission of actively educating future generations about the Holocaust, other genocides, and the importance of human rights." She died on 15 April 2001 at the age of 92.
In 2006, the Memorial Library began the Holocaust Educator Network, a national program for teachers committed to Holocaust education, especially in rural schools and small towns, in partnership with the National Writing Project"s Rural Sites Network. The program is directed by Sondra Perl, author of On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate.