Young Harris College - Rollins Campus Center, Charles Suber Banquet Hall
1 College Avenue
Young Harris, GA 30582
United States
A Survivor's Story: Ben Walker
Event ended September 21, 2016
The opportunity to hear the first-person account of a Holocaust survivor is often a once in a lifetime experience. Join us on September 21 as Holocaust survivor Ben Walker shares his story at Young Harris College.
Date
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
7 - 7 p.m.
7 - 7 p.m.
Location
The opportunity to hear the first-person account of a Holocaust survivor is often a once in a lifetime experience. Join us on September 21 as Holocaust survivor Ben Walker shares his story at Young Harris College.
This program is open to the public and free to attend.
Ben Walker was born near Czernowitz, Romania, an area that is now the Ukraine. On November 20, 1940, Romania formally joined the Axis alliance. In 1941, Ben and his family were deported to Transnistria, an occupied territory in northeast Romania where Romanian authorities established several de facto ghettos and two concentration camps. Between 1941 and 1944, German and Romanian authorities murdered or caused the deaths of between 150,000 and 250,000 Romanian and Ukrainian Jews in Transnistria. Ben and his mother were the only members of his family to survive. His father, sister, uncles, and grandparents perished.
The ability to bring speakers to audiences in Georgia is an important aspect of the Commission’s support of Holocaust education. By replacing the statistics with personal stories, the survivors and victims are given a voice and it also ensures that the Holocaust is never forgotten. For more information about Holocaust speakers, please click here.