Holocaust Survivor Speaking at UMass
Posted April 28th, 2008 by Melinda Williams
Date and Time:
Apr 30 2008 7:00pmLocation:
Campus Center 168
Holocaust Remembrance Day Event:
Holocaust survivor Judith Altmann will be speaking. Q & A following talk.
Born in Czechoslovakia, Judith Altmann was a teenager when she and her family were sent to
a ghetto in Mateszalka, Hungary, because Theresienstadt was full. “For my parents
and my sisters and nieces and nephews, I light a candle because I am still here,”
Altmann said. “There’s no one here to commemorate them.”
