About the 2021 Speaker
Manfred "Manny" Lindenbaum was born in Unna, Germany in 1932. In 1938, at just six years old, he was deported with his family to Poland. From Poland, Manny and his brother Sigfried were able to escape to England via the Kindertransport, an effort by the British government and relief organizations that rescued approximately 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Europe just before the outbreak of World War II. Manny's fourteen-year-old sister Ruth, as well as his parents, Frieda and Otto, were murdered in Auschwitz. After the War, Manny and Sigfried immigrated to the United States in 1946. At the time, his mother's sister owned a chicken farm in Farmingdale, NJ. He too became a chicken farmer, sold eggs, bought and remodeled houses, and also worked as a peddler. He has three children with his wife, Annabel, and has devoted his life to charity work in honor of his sister Ruth's memory. He helped found the Peace, Genocide, and Holocaust Center at Ocean County College and was an active board member of Brookdale Community College's Holocaust Center. He has also led workshops for Alternatives to Violence, a Quaker group, and was on their board. He often shares his story with children, urging them to speak up when they see someone being bullied. In 2014, Manny, along with family and friends, returned to Germany and Poland to retrace the steps of his family's deportation and march to a ghetto. You can learn more about Lindenbaum's odyssey on his website, www.odyssey76.com.
Manfred "Manny" Lindenbaum was born in Unna, Germany in 1932. In 1938, at just six years old, he was deported with his family to Poland. From Poland, Manny and his brother Sigfried were able to escape to England via the Kindertransport, an effort by the British government and relief organizations that rescued approximately 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Europe just before the outbreak of World War II. Manny's fourteen-year-old sister Ruth, as well as his parents, Frieda and Otto, were murdered in Auschwitz. After the War, Manny and Sigfried immigrated to the United States in 1946. At the time, his mother's sister owned a chicken farm in Farmingdale, NJ. He too became a chicken farmer, sold eggs, bought and remodeled houses, and also worked as a peddler. He has three children with his wife, Annabel, and has devoted his life to charity work in honor of his sister Ruth's memory. He helped found the Peace, Genocide, and Holocaust Center at Ocean County College and was an active board member of Brookdale Community College's Holocaust Center. He has also led workshops for Alternatives to Violence, a Quaker group, and was on their board. He often shares his story with children, urging them to speak up when they see someone being bullied. In 2014, Manny, along with family and friends, returned to Germany and Poland to retrace the steps of his family's deportation and march to a ghetto. You can learn more about Lindenbaum's odyssey on his website, www.odyssey76.com.
Videos
Videos
Gdansk.mp4Zbaszyn Garczyński High School Visit.mp4Zbaszyn.mp4Biking to Unna.mp4
Speaking Introduction (1).mp4