Exclusive | Holocaust survivor, 95, delivers defiant message to Hitler after winning Emmy for her survival story: This is my FU
She survived the Holocaust as a child, alone and on the run, never knowing if she’d live to see her teenage years.Now, at 95, she’s won an Emmy for telling her story — and delivering a defiant message to Hitler: “This is my FU.” Lusia Rosenzweig Milch was just 10 in July 1941 when German troops invaded her small town of Skalat, Poland — now part of Ukraine — “like wild beasts,” shattering her idyllic childhood with her loving parents and younger sister.“Gone was my carefree childhood and freedom as a Jew,” she recalled.Her extraordinary story of survival — posing as a Ukrainian peasant girl to escape the Nazis — became “My Mother’s Eyes,” a 12-minute animated short that won an Emmy for best teen long or short form content at the New York Emmy Awards on Oct.
10.“This is our victory.For Hitler and his gang, this is my revenge,” Milch told The Post.“I never imagined I would be here now,” Milch, a grandmother of three and great-grandmother of two who lives on the Upper West Side, said following her historic win that’s believed to make her the oldest female and only female Holocaust survivor to win an Emmy.“OMG, it feels great” said of holding the award — a victory that only reinforces the former school teacher’s mission to stamp out hate.
“My purpose is to fight what’s happening today.”Milch narrated the harrowing film that takes young Lusia from a happy, thriving life surrounded by friends, extended family and rich Jewish traditions to a desperate bid for survival. After years in a disease-ridden ghetto of Skalat where she witnessed torture and barbarism, her family’s hoped-for refuge in the home of a local peasant fell apart when he threatened to kill them.With Nazi mobs raging outside, Lusia’s mother, Necha, looked into her daughter’s eyes and urged her to flee since “hell was ruling on the street.”Necha gave her daughter an unmistakable look, Milch recalled, and “I understood what she was telling...