My Journey as a Child Holocaust Survivor [poster]

Authors

University of Northern Iowa. Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education.

Files

Keywords

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Posters; Kasimow, Harold, 1937- --Posters; Holocaust survivors--Posters;

Description

A poster announcing the presentation by Harold Kasimow on his experiences during the Holocaust.

Document Type

Poster

Series

Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony in the Cedar Valley

Event Sponsor 1

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education, University of Northern Iowa

Lecturer

Harold Kasimow

Information about Lecturer

Harold Kasimow is the George Drake Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Grinnell College. He has been deeply involved in Jewish dialogue with other religious traditions since the 1960s. He has written and edited several books including Interfaith Activism: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Religious Diversity (2015) and Pope Francis and Interreligious Dialogue: Religious Thinkers Engage with Recent Papal Initiatives (2018). His works on interreligious dialogue have been published in China, England, India, Japan, Austria, Poland, and the United States. Harold was born in 1937, and his earliest memories are of living in total darkness and silence, with no room to move and very little to eat. He and his parents and two sisters spent 19 months and five days hiding from the Nazis near Vilnius in a hole dug in the floor of a cattle barn, covered over with boards and straw. Harold, his parents and sisters immigrated to the USA in 1949,

Comments

Event

• Title: My Journey as a Child Holocaust Survivor; 13th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony in the Cedar Valley
• Date: April 23, 2019
• Time: 7:00 p.m.
• Location: Grout Museum of History & Science, 503 South Street, Waterloo, IA

Publication Date

4-23-2019

Publisher

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education, University of Northern Iowa

City

Cedar Falls, IA

Copyright

©2019 Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education, University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

University of Northern Iowa. Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education., "My Journey as a Child Holocaust Survivor [poster]" (2019). Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education Documents. 1.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/chge_documents/1