Holocaust Survivors
Join us for a presentation by Howard Chandler, a Holocaust survivor who endured Auschwitz and the death march to Buchenwald.
The annual Holocaust Remembrance Program at Slippery Rock University will be held Wednesday, March 26, 2025, from 3:30-5:15pm, in the Miller Auditorium on SRU campus. The program will include two speakers and two short Holocaust-related musical performances. The speakers will be Holocaust survivor Mr. Art Gelbart and second-generation survivor Ms. Debby Chudakoff. Both speakers reside […]
Please join us for the second annual Renee Sachs Memorial Lecture on Holocaust history. Dr. Robin Judd, Professor of History at Ohio State University, will be sharing her award-winning research on “Jewish War Brides”—the Holocaust survivors who married North American and British military personnel in the wake of World War II.
While survivor Edith Dach, Susan Terman’s mother, never wrote about her Holocaust experience, she and other family members told many stories to Susan. Susan then shared her family’s stories with her brother-in-law, Pittsburgh-area poet Philip Terman. From there, the book I am a Jew: A Holocaust Family Memoir was born. Containing Susan’s sharing of her mother’s stories […]
The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh is pleased to welcome Dr. Alex Kor, son of Eva and Mickey Kor (z”l) and his co-author, Graham Honaker. Eva Kor (z”l) was a Holocaust survivor who advocated for healing through forgiveness, the subject of two critically acclaimed documentaries Eva: A-7063 and Forgiving Dr. Mengele, and the founder of the CANDLES Holocaust Museum […]
Learn about Holocaust survivor Solange Lebovitz’s experiences as a Jewish child and teen living in occupied France, hiding from the Nazis and their collaborators. While she was living in hiding, her other family members were in concentration camps and her brothers were members of the French Resistance. Solange was born in 1930 in Paris, France. […]
Join the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh for an evening of learning and conversation with leaders in the Bamileke and Holocaust Center Generations communities. We will learn about the Bamileke people’s experiences of persecution, explore the intersections between the two communities, and talk about the relationships that have been building between descendants of survivors of the […]
We are excited to host Dr. Melissa Marks’s presentation for the first time! Bio: Dr. Melissa Marks is the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. Her desire to understand the history and psychology of the Holocaust led her to become a social studies teacher, a career she loved for a decade. Currently, she is in her 21st year as a […]