Holocaust Survivor To Speak
at April 13 Remembrance Service

The annual Jacksonville State University remembrance of the Holocaust of World War II will be held on April 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Stone Center Theatre.

Keynote speaker will be Mrs. Ruth Siegler. Siegler was born in Cologne, Germany and her experiences mirror the timeline of the Holocaust. Her family began experiencing persecution in 1933 after Hitler came to power. The family lost their home, and Ruth and her sister Ilse were forced to relocate to Holland and Czechoslovakia before being deported to the infamous concentration camps of Birkenau/Auschwitz, and Praust. After the war's end, she had to contend with the possibility of a life of repression in the Soviet Union, but was able to make it to the United States where she met her late husband Walter Siegler, also a Holocaust survivor. For more information on this remarkable story of survival, click here.

Others participating in the event, which is sponsored by JSU's Student Goverment Association, are from the university community and the community-at-large. The public is invited.

For more information, contact John Hickman at ext. 8253 or Steven Whitton at ext. 5414.

 

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