Batsheva Dagan is a Holocaust survivor who wrote children's books on one of her books.

• From the movie "Chica, the bitch in the ghetto"

 "Chica, The Bitch in the Ghetto," an animated film based on Batsheva Dagan's book, will be broadcast here educationally (Channel 23) today at 7:50 pm and 1:35 pm. The film tells of the Holocaust through the eyes of a 5-year-old boy who refuses to part with his beloved dog.

Dagan (95), a Holocaust survivor, lost many members of her family at that time. After immigrating to Israel in 1945, she studied educational counseling, worked as an educational psychologist, ran the preschool section of the Tel Aviv Municipal Psychological Service, and throughout the years wrote children's books about the Holocaust. 

"I was born in 1925 in Lodz, Poland," she says, "as soon as the city was occupied by the Nazis, my parents decided that we should leave. I am a family of nine children. I had five brothers and three sisters, I am the eighth. My older brothers and my sister fled to Russia. And I and my two sisters stayed in Poland with my parents. We were in the ghetto until its liquidation day, in 1942. There was a selection. Adults were sent to death, and young people to work. Fleeing to Germany, because they said the Germans were less able to tell who was Jewish and who was not. Auschwitz, where I stayed for 20 months, from where I was transferred to another camp, from which I was liberated in May 1945.

"A little later I immigrated to Israel. Of my brothers who fled to Russia, two survived, one was able to immigrate to Israel before the war. My little sister did not survive. I came to Israel. Unfortunately, he died at the age of 43. I have two sons, ten grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. "

What is behind the story of Chica the bitch from the ghetto?

"I knew this boy and his bitch. He was a relative of mine and he really was a bitch. Today he is a pediatric surgery professor, his name is Michael Stranger. When I first saw the film, I was very excited and impressed. In Germany, there was a screening of the film. "

Why did you choose to write this story?

"I wrote this story in London when I was on the mission of the Jewish Agency in the late 1980s. By Nuremberg Law, Jews were not allowed to have pets. That prohibition really interested me. My psychology expertise is young children, so I thought the bitch story would be age appropriate. This was the second book I ever wrote, before I wrote 'What Happened in the Holocaust - a story in rhymes for children who want to know', and later I wrote more books, 'If the Stars Knew to Speak', 'Today the Horn Cried for Me', a book for youth and adults called 'Blessed The Damned Imagination Imagination is "a description of life in Auschwitz, and I wrote poems as well." 

How do you deal with the Corona epidemic?

"Like everyone else, I'm sad that there are no visits. It's very hard for me not to meet with family members, so we talk on the phone and laugh at the zoom. Now I write songs and stories about the Corona. I have all kinds of creative ideas."

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