Two Holocaust survivors

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This is a up comming event in my local area if anyone is in the local area they may want to attend

Bob

NATCHITOCHES Louisiana- Two Holocaust survivors and an award-winning author on the Holocaust will speak Wednesday and Thursday at Northwestern State University’s 21st annual Research Day and reception, sponsored by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Admission is free and open to the public.

Manya Friedman will speak at a 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Student Union ballroom. Friedman, a native of Poland, was put into a concentration camp at age 18 in 1943. Over the next two years, she was in several camps and was forever separated from her family. In January 1945, she was put on a death march but was rescued by the Swedish Red Cross three months later. She immigrated to the United States in 1950 and now works as a volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and is an active member of the Museum’s speakers’ bureau. Her speech will be followed by a reception to honor all three speakers.

Dr. Lawrence Powell, author of “Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust” and “David Duke’s Louisiana,” will be the keynote speaker at 10 a.m. Thursday, in the Student Union ballroom. Anne Levy, the subject of his book, will make a brief presentation following Powell’s speech. Powell teaches southern history, race relations, and Holocaust studies at Tulane University. He will be available to sign books on request at both the reception and Research Day.

Levy was four years old when the Nazis attacked and occupied Poland in 1939. Her family survived two years in the Warsaw ghetto, escaping in 1943 and surviving the rest of the war by pretending to be Christians. Her family was among the few Jewish families in Poland who survived the Holocaust. The Levys moved to New Orleans in 1949.

During Research Day, Northwestern faculty and students share some of their latest work with the University community. Presentations begin at 9 a.m. Afternoon sessions are from noon until 4:55 p.