Monday, April 19, 2010

Holocaust survivor speaking this Wednesday

Holocaust survivor and WSHERC Speakers Bureau member Magda S. will be speaking at Seattle University this Wednesday. The event is free and open to the public.

Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Seattle University, Pigott Auditorium


Magda S. was born in Hungary 1922, imprisoned in Auschwitz, and eventually sent to work at the slave labor camp of Muhldorf, where she met the man she would marry.

Magda S. was born to a loving family in 1922 in Gyor, Hungary. Following the German occupation of Hungary on March 19, 1944, the Nazis began systematically depriving Jews of their rights and forcing them into ghettos. They forced Magda and her family to leave their home and deported Magda, her brother and mother to Auschwitz. Read more about Magda...

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