Quincy University’s Brenner Library will host storyteller Carla Gordon for a presentation titled “One Family’s Story of the Holocaust” at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 12.
The presentation is held in conjunction with the national traveling exhibition “Americans and the Holocaust” from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, in partnership with the American Library Association. The exhibition is open to the public from Oct. 29 to Dec. 2.
Gordon, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, will share her family’s struggle under the Nazi regime in Germany from 1933 to 1945. Her presentation details her mother’s expulsion from school for being Jewish, her grandfather’s tragic death at Auschwitz and her father’s involvement with the French Resistance.
“Through the eyes of an adult child of German Holocaust survivors and to express my message of upholding the quote ‘Never Forget,’ I have been telling the stories of how the Nazis uprooted my parents and their families,” said Gordon.
Gordon has shared her family’s story to students in middle and high school, including Baldwin, St. Francis, St. Anthony and St. Dominic’s schools in Quincy, Illinois; Olathe, Kansas, Junior High School and at service clubs and libraries in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. Gordon has visited the Holocaust Museum in her hometown of Skokie, Illinois, the Holocaust Museum in Berlin, Paris Memorial of the Shoah and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She first visited her mother’s home in Romrod, Germany in 2010. She has spoken to the Central Council of Jews in Bielefeld, Germany. In addition, Gordon worked with seventh and eighth grade students at the Antwerp International School in Belgium to offer the viewpoint of someone whose German parents managed to escape, survive and build new lives.
The event is free and open to the public. For a full list of the events in conjunction with the exhibit visit our exhibit page.
More information about “Americans and the Holocaust” is available at https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/traveling-exhibitions/americans-and-the-holocaust.
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