Holocaust Survivor to Speak at GMU Mar. 26

By Connect Mason News Director Elizabeth Stern

Holocaust survivor Manya Friedman will speak at GMU Wednesday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Mason Hall, rooms D3 A and B.

Friedman, born in Chmielnik, Poland, moved to Sosnowiec near the German border at age 13. German troops recruited Friedman and her family into forced labor.

Friedman was separated from her family and landed in the Ravensbrück concentration camp and later to the Rechlin camp, where she was eventually rescued by the Swedish Red Cross. She emigrated from Sweden to the United States in 1950 and now works as a volunteer at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Friedman is an active member of the museum's speakers bureau.

Marion Deshmukh, associate professor in the Department of History and Art History, will moderate the event. Junior Megan Fowler, an honors student double-majoring in history and theater, organized this event along with a showing of Schindler's List March 24.

This event is free and open to the public.