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 Date: Tuesday, 8 April 2025
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Speaker: Esther Levy
Location: Merrill Hall Auditorium, B10
Speaker Biography: Esther Levy was born in Atlanta, Georgia to a mother who was a Holocaust Survivor and a father whose entire immediate family was wiped out in the Holocaust. She has been involved in her local Jewish Community in a variety of volunteer and job opportunities since the age of fourteen. She decided to begin telling her mother’s story of life during the Holocaust after her mother's death in 2006 and has been a speaker for the Alabama Holocaust Education Center since 2007. Ms. Levy is currently enjoying her seven grandchildren, volunteering in the community, and performing for other seniors as a member of Red Mountain Theater’s Seasoned Performers.
Program Description: Esther Levy’s presentation focuses on her mother’s life from September 1, 1939, with the bombing of her town, through being in a youth work camp, the years in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz Concentration Camp, and laboring in a munitions factory in Germany to her unexpected rescue in 1945. Ms. Levy talks about what her mother experienced as well as gives the background information of what was going on around her. The PowerPoint presentation Ms. Levy uses contains historical information as well as a short video about the Lodz Ghetto.
Ms. Levy hopes the audience will leave with an understanding of what life was like for her mother, a fourteen-year-old girl, who lost everything and everyone she loved, along with five years of her life in which she should have experienced being a teenager before moving on to becoming an adult.
However, Ms. Levy’s greatest wish is that this experience will impress on attendees the knowledge that any society can be so manipulated that they can allow a Holocaust to happen when hatred and bigotry are acceptable.
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