Holocaust Awareness Week: Tuesday's Schedule
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
University of Colorado at Boulder
University Memorial Center Room 235
Boulder, CO 80301
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Free and open to the public
Tuesday, March 9
11:00AM
Maria Krenz
Holocaust Survivor
Maria Krenz was born to Jewish parents in the middle of a bombing raid on Budapest in 1944, five weeks after Germany invaded and the Holocaust really began in Hungary. Having survived the Holocaust and the Communist era, her mother and herself left for Venezuela, where she spent her high school years. In 1964 they immigrated to the United States. After a few years in New York and a brief career in banking, Maria moved to Colorado to study. She earned her MA from the University of Colorado and worked as a writer/editor and administrator at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. She is now retired and still lives in Boulder. Maria is the author of Made in Hungary: A Life Forged by History.
1:00 PM
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
Movie
The story of Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg, who, in 1944, helped Jews in Budapest obtain Swedish passports to get them out of Adolph Eichmann's deadly path. Wallenberg's efforts helped save more than 60,000 people in Budapest's Jewish ghetto -- the most successful rescue of Jews during World War II. Aside from Winston Churchill, Wallenberg was the only other person ever to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States. Wallenberg was captured by the Russians upon their entering Budapest, and Wallenberg’s fate remains unknown.
2:30 PM
George Kondor
Holocaust Survivor saved by Raoul Wallenberg
George Kondor was born on December 15, 1933 in Budapest, Hungary. He has many fond memories of his family in his short time before the war. Although all of his childhood was spent oppressed by the Hungarian Arrow Cross, he eventually witnessed the Nazi’s enter Budapest in 1944. That summer his family’s lives changed forever: George’s family was moved into a Swedish “safe house,” his father went to work for Raoul Wallenberg, and George’s father watched his parents leave in a cattle-car to Auschwitz. Dr. Kondor has his mother’s memories of Wallenberg, and several stories of his own. His father passed away just before Budapest was liberated, shot by Russians. George eventually left Hungary in the early 1970s to Nigeria, and ultimately moved to Canada where he now resides with his wife and family. George has two children and three grandsons.
7:00 PM
Bryan Mark Riggs
Author of "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers"
Bryan Rigg is an American author and speaker who received his PhD from Cambridge University. His work has been featured in the New York Times and on programs including NBC Dateline and Fox News. Raised as a Baptist Christian, he discovered he was of Jewish decent, converted to the Jewish faith and served as a volunteer in the Israeli Army, later serving as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps.
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