Holocaust Remembrance Week to Include Talk by Auschwitz Survivor

Seventy relatives of Magda Brown were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp where she too was held as a teenager.  She also was a slave laborer in a German munitions factory where the chemicals she used burned her and turned her skin yellow and orange.  But she survived, and today the suburban Chicago resident tells the story of her experiences to interested audiences.

Brown will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in Schroeder Hall room 130 as part of ISU Hillel-Jewish Student Union’s Holocaust Remembrance Week.  Admission is free and open to the public.

In addition to her speaking engagements, Brown is one of the subjects being filmed for an independent documentary made in Chicago.

Two other remembrance events are planned.

Beginning at midnight Monday and continuing Tuesday until midnight, volunteers will be reading the names of 300,000 of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust.  The name-reading will take place on the Schroeder Hall plaza.  On the plaza from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, the student organization, Hillel-Jewish Student Union, will attempt to collect 1.5 million pennies in memory of and to symbolize the 1.5 million children murdered during the Holocaust.