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Recollections of a Hidden Child
Holocaust survivor
Betty Oberlender will present “My Holocaust Experience” on
Tuesday, April 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Stanley Library’s A-V Auditorium,
Ferrum College. The event is free and open to the public.
Oberlender, who lives
in Roanoke, will share her experiences as a young Jewish girl growing
up in Belgium during World War II. Aided by her videotape, which she
recorded with the Shoah Foundation, Oberlender will recall her childhood,
including the growing threat of the Holocaust to herself and her family;
the circumstances describing how she was hidden by a Christian woman;
and the fate of the rest of her family members. She will also discuss
her postwar experiences and how she was able to emigrate to the United
States.
Eleven years ago, Oberlender
and her husband Martin retired to Roanoke to be near one of their three
sons, Dr. Gary Oberlender. She serves as the president of the Sisterhood
of Beth Israel Synagogue.
For more information,
contact Dr. Marcia Horn at (540) 365-4328.
Ferrum College is pleased
to offer this lecture in its ongoing remembrance of and education about
the Holocaust. “By tracing the causes of these events…we should
be better able to relate the past to the ethical choices we will make
in the future,” says Horn. Horn is the coordinator of the College’s
multi-disciplinary course on the Holocaust. # # #
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