Wednesday, December 7, 2022 6pm to 7:30pm
About this Event
The final event for the 'Americans and the Holocaust' exhibition will be Through My Grandmother's Eyes: The Veit Simon Family During the Holocaust, set for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, at the Fayetteville Public Library. Courtney Doi will share the story of her grandmother, Judith Klein, the youngest of six children, who left Berlin, Germany, on the Kindertransport in December 1938 just after Kristallnacht. Klein's father, grandmother, two aunts and two of her siblings died in concentration camps. Klein passed away in 2016, and Doi inherited 30 years of her personal journals. Featuring old family photographs and first-hand accounts from her grandmother's writing, Doi's presentation will explore both Klein's journey out of Germany as a teenage refugee and her extended family's experiences across Europe during the war. In addition, Doi will discuss her own travels back to Germany to further understand her family history and how we, as individuals, can work to prevent genocide in the future.
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