by | | 2020 Hope Series, Alex, Speaker Bios
My childhood in Croatia (Bosnia) was wonderful from 1933 until 1940 when at the age of 7 years old, we had to leave our home. My father was taken by the local fascists to a concentration camp at Jasenovac (Croatia) and murdered in 1941. My mother, sister,...
by | | 2020 Hope Series, Speaker Bios
Leader in Houston community and child of two Holocaust survivors. His father Morris, was born April 14, 1922, in Vilkiviskis, Lithuania and his parents, Mordechai and Zlata Penn; his brother, Refael, and sister, Rivka, all perished in the Holocaust. Morris was able to...
by | | Education Advisors, HRA18 Exec Adv Council, Speaker Bios
Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth serves as the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies, UT Dallas. She is Director of the Holocaust Studies Program. She has published a number of articles, dealing with aesthetic and ethical issues in French, German, and...
by | | 2020 Hope Series, 2020 MOR Speaker, Speaker Bios
Holocaust survivor Bill Orlin was born in Poland in 1932 and was seven years old when Nazi troops invaded. His family watched as the Nazis destroyed the city and began their policies of persecution. HIs entire village was forced into a 50-mile march, suffering abusive...
