The Meta and John Spiegler Holocaust Remembrance Lecture Series
The Meta and John Spiegler Holocaust Remembrance Lecture Series
CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS AUDITORIUM
CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS AUDITORIUM
Admission Free and Open to the Public
Admission Free and Open to the Public
Dori Katz was born in Antwerp, Belgium to Polish and Czech parents a year before the Germans invaded and occupied Belgium in 1940. With the exception of Dori and her mother who survived separately in hiding, her father and entire family were deported to Auschwitz where they perished. Reunited after the war, she and her mother came to America in 1952. She earned a PhD. in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa and is currently Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages and Literature from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, where she taught French and Modern European Literature for several decades. She has published many poems and translations from the French in anthologies, journals, and reviews, and has published a bi-lingual book of poetry, Hiding in Other People's Houses, with her poems translated into Spanish. Her memoir Looking for Strangers: The True Story of my Hidden Wartime Childhood has been published by the University of Chicago Press in October 2013. It was a finalist for an award from The National Jewish Book Council for 2013.
There will be a Q & A as well as a book signing following the lecture. See you then!
Survived the Holocaust as a young child; one of few to enter a gas chamber and live; author of The Daughter of Auschwitz
Hidden as a child in The Netherlands; author of Chocolate, The Taste of Freedom
Felice Zimmern Stokes, April 25, 2023
A hidden child in France during the Holocaust
Estelle Laughlin, April 26, 2022
Avoided initial deportation from Warsaw ghetto in a hidden bunker, captured during the Warsaw Uprising; survived Lublin-Majdanek and Czestochowa
Manny Lindenbaum, April 20, 2021
Deported with his family to Poland at just six years old; survived by escape to England via the Kindertransport
Maya Brown, April 30, 2019
As a child, fled Nazis in Russia, escaped pogrom in Poland, and lived in a displaced persons camp in Germany
Lea Malek, April 17, 2018
Survived a work camp, witnessed the Hungarian Revolution, emigrated to Israel and the United States
Helen Levinson, April 25, 2017
Escaped Majdanek, survived by traveling and working under a false identity
Roald Hoffman, April 5, 2016
As a child, survived the war hidden in an attic
Marion Blumenthal Lazan, April 22, 2015
Survivor of Bergen-Belsen and Other Concentration and Refugee Camps
Samuel Rind, April 28, 2014
Survivor of Smerinka Ghetto, Emigrated to Bolivia and US
Warren Heilbronner, April 23, 2013
Survivor of Kristallnacht, Resident of Perry, NY
Henry Silberstern, April 24, 2012
Survivor of Terezin, Auschwitz, Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen
Bernie Farber, May 24, 2011
Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Jewish Congress
Eva Abrams, April 12, 2010
Survivor of Auschwitz
Helena Weinrauch, April 20, 2009
Survivor of Plaszow, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belson
Steve Heller, April 7, 2008
Concentration Camp Liberator
Angie Suss Paull, May 3, 2007
Survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen