Holocaust Awareness Week: Thursday's Schedule
Thursday, March 11, 2010
University of Colorado at Boulder
University Memorial Center Room 235
Boulder, CO 80301
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Free and open to the public
Thursday, March 11
11:00AM
Ella Mendel
Holocaust Survivor from Aushwitz
Born in 1926 in a small city outside of Lodz, Poland, Ella Mandel was not raised extremely Jewish, but rather she was raised relatively reformed. She was the 2nd youngest of 4 sisters. Before the war broke out she remembers always having to board up her windows during Christmas and Easter because the non-Jews in the neighborhood would stone her house. When the Nazis stormed into her town, she was taken and sent to Auschwitz. She was then sent to several different camps, and eventually was liberated from Birkenau. She lost her hearing during the war due to typhoid fever, but her best friend snuck her medication. Once liberated, she learned she was the only member of her family that survived. She was held in a DP camp until her and her husband went to Minnesota to start a new life.
1:00 PM
Eric Cahn
Holocaust Survivor
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