2009 Holocaust Speaker Series
Jconnect Seattle and Hillel UW are proud to partner with the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, to host this amazing 3-part series. This is a rare opportunity to hear from two survivors and a liberator, and it is an opportunity not to be missed.
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Thursday, February 5th, 7:00pm Kane Hall Room 220, University of Washington, Seattle. “When I was in hiding, I feared I would be the only Jew who survived. A terrible empty feeling came over me at the loss of so many cousins, and I felt as though I were standing all alone in a huge stadium.” |
Henry F. was born in Brody, Poland. In 1941, when Henry was 14, Nazi Germany occupied Brody. Henry and his family hid on a farm owned by the Symchucks, a Christian family. For 18 months the Symchucks hid Henry and his family in a space the size of a queen sized bed.
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Thursday, March 5th, 7:00pm UW Hillel, Seattle. “What I saw that morning in Buchenwald, has never faded.” |
Born in Sharon, Idaho in 1926, Leo was drafted into the United States Army at age 18. Leo was assigned to General Patton’s Third Army, which advanced into Germany and Czechoslovakia. On April 9, 1945 Leo liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Leo confronted SS guards and saw the emaciated prisoners, including children, in unspeakably filthy conditions; crematoria, crampedbarracks, and piles of bodies.
YomHashoah. Monday, April 20th, 7:00pm. "When I heard about groups that denied the Holocaust, I decided I had to speak out.”
UW Hillel, Seattle.
Magda S. was born in Hungary in 1922. Following the German occupation of Hungary, the Nazis forced Magda and her family to leave their home and deported Magda, her brother and mother to Auschwitz. Magda was briefly sent to the slave labor camp of Muhldorf, where she met the man she would marry. The Nazis later loaded her onto a cattle wagon with other survivors to be transported to an unknown spot to be murdered, but Allied troops liberated her along the way.
