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d. 2002
SEATTLE (Thu February 28, 2002) - Gizel Berman, who recounted her experiences as a Holocaust survivor in sculpture, books and storytelling to schoolchildren, died Monday. She was 82.
Berman was a Czech native whose sculptures are displayed at the Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island and at the Yad Vashem Holocaust art collection in Jerusalem.
In her book, ``My Three Lives: A Story of Love, War and Survival,' Berman told how she and her husband Nick managed to survive the Nazi horror of the 1930s and '40s after being taken to separate death camps while their families were murdered.
She also visited dozens of schools to tell her story, including a forced march in which all but 80 of 900 women died.
Reunited following the Soviet onslaught into Germany, the Bermans made their way to New York, then to Kansas City, where Nick earned a degree in dentistry, and finally to Seattle in 1948.
Living on Mercer Island until the couple moved to an apartment in Seattle, Berman became known for poignant cast metal sculptures, such as a one-winged bird in her home garden.
Her Holocaust memorial on a pedestal inside the Jewish center is a rendering of the Hebrew words ``Lo Tishkach,' meaning ``Do Not Forget,' in bronze letters more than 12 feet high. A smaller replica is displayed at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
