"We put all our future into our children"

"Ottawa artist Paula Zoubek grew up hearing stories about the little girl who almost became her sister.

"In September 1939, her parents were set to flee Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. They had pledged to take 12-year-old Anna Klausnerova with them to Canada...

"It wasn’t until after the Second World War ended that the family heard Anna and her mother had perished in the gas chambers of the Auschwitz concentration camp."

Read it all. Her artwork is beautiful.