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SUMMARY:The Season of Freedom and Yom Hashoah – Surviving the Holocaust\,
  with Irene Weiss
DESCRIPTION:Scroll Down for Registration Form\n\npresents:\nThe Season of F
 reedom and Yom Hashoah –\nSurviving the Holocaust\, with Irene Weiss\nTh
 ursday\, April 17\, 2025\n8pm Eastern | 5pm Pacific\n\nPassover is the tim
 e to celebrate our freedom from slavery\,\nfreedom to become the Jewish pe
 ople and freedom to live in the promised land.\nThis year\, Passover and Y
 om Hashoah are within days of each other.\nIrene Weiss is a Holocaust surv
 ivor who is free to be Jewish\, to love her family while 6 million fellow 
 Jews lost their freedom and their lives. Listen to her story and her persp
 ectives on enduring the horrors of antisemitism\, hatred which did not end
  with the Holocaust – and  which is growing in the US and the world.\n\
 nIrene Weiss was born Perl Ruchel Fogel on November 21\, 1930\, in Bótrá
 gy\, Czechoslovakia (now Batrad’\, Ukraine). Nazi Germany dismantled Cz
 echoslovakia in 1938-1939. In November 1938\, Bótrágy\, located in Subca
 rpathian Rus\, came under Hungarian rule. The Hungarian takeover changed t
 he Fogel family’s lives. The Hungarian government enacted antisemitic la
 ws\, restricting Jewish life in Hungary and its occupied territories.\n\nI
 n March 1944\, Nazi Germany invaded Hungary. Under German influence\, Hung
 arian antisemitic policies quickly escalated. Jews had to wear a yellow St
 ar of David badge on their clothing. In April 1944\, Hungarian authorities
  rounded up thousands of Hungarian Jews\, including the Fogels\, and crowd
 ed them into a ghetto in Munkács\, a brick factory that was never intende
 d to house people.\n\nOver a two-month period beginning in May 1944\, abou
 t 420\,000 Jews were deported from Hungary to Auschwitz-Birkenau\, includi
 ng Irene and her family. Irene was 13 years old. Upon arrival at the camp\
 , her family was separated. As Soviet troops approached\, in January 1945\
 , the SS personnel fled\, leaving the camp unguarded. The prisoners gradua
 lly left. Irene and others found temporary shelter in an empty house in a 
 nearby town. Soon after\, Irene made their way to Prague to look for relat
 ives or other survivors.  Later\, she married and came to the US.\n\n\n\n
 Learn more about combating antisemitism\nand to view our previous presenta
 tions:\nFJMC Combating Antisemitism Initiative Web Page \n\n\n\n\n[ninja_
 form id='36']\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
CATEGORIES:Combating Antisemitism
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