Holocaust survivors here Wednesday

We'll meet here on Wednesday, #13.

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Two Holocaust survivors will discuss their personal experiences at MTSU on Wednesday, October 30^th. The event, presented by the MTSU Holocaust Studies Program Committee, is free and open to both the university and the general public.

    ​Please consider coming to the event and bringing your classes, family, and friends as well.  It is a rare opportunity to see two first generation survivors speak in public, an opportunity that gets increasingly rare with each passing year.  These two speakers have especially interesting stories to tell.

Frances Cutler Hahn was a hidden child in France. Born in 1938, she was very young when her parents hid her in a Catholic children’s home to save her life.  During the Holocaust she practiced two religions, had five names and took refuge in seven homes with eight different families.  Her mother was murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau and her father, a member of the French resistance, died of wounds he suffered in combat. She will talk about what impact these experiences have had on her life and attitudes.

Jack Cohen, born in 1932 in Greece, lived as quietly as possible in the Italian occupied section of Greece from 1941 until the Germans began arresting and deporting Greek Jews to the ghettos and death camps in 1943.  The family fled to a monastery in the mountains for two years until it became too dangerous to remain there.  Once again the family fled, this time to a small village, until the end of the war.  Although most of the family survived, Jack’s grandmother was captured and, presumably, murdered. They never saw her again. 

  

These presentations will take place at 2:20 p.m. in the Tennessee Room of the James Union Building this Wednesday, October 30^th.  For more information, email or phone Holocaust Studies Program Chair  Dr. Nancy Rupprecht (nancy.rupprecht@mtsu.edu or 615-898-2546) or Liberal Arts Events Coordinator Connie Huddleston (Connie.Huddleston@mtsu.edu or 615-494-7628.) 

If you or your friends do not have parking passes, they can be obtained at http://www.mtsu.edu/parking/visit.php

This event is co-sponsored by the MTSU Holocaust Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts, and the Tennessee Holocaust Commission.