My Holocaust Story: A Message of Determination, Perseverance, Faith and Hope
Marion Blumenthal Lazan
Monday, 08 Feb 2016 at 7:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Event to be held as scheduledMarion Blumenthal Lazan provides a moving firsthand account of the Blumenthal family's life in Germany from the events preceding Kristallnacht to imprisonment in concentration camps, including Bergen-Belsen, to liberation in April 1945. She was eleven years old when the family finally gained its freedom. She is the coauthor of Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story and subject of the PBS documentary Marion's Triumph. Her story is a life-affirming, inspirational narrative of survival, reconciliation and the limits of endurance, and renews one's faith in humanity.
Learn more about Marion Blumenthal Lazan and the book Four Perfect Pebbles
Cosponsored By:
- Ames Jewish Congregation
- Drake University
- Health Promotion Club
- History
- ISU Hillel
- Jewish Federation
- The Morris and Nellie L. Kawaler Foundation Fund for Judaic Studies
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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