MUSCATINE, Iowa – Holocaust survivor Yvonne Aronson will share her powerful firsthand account of loss and resilience at Remembering the Holocaust: A Talk with a Survivor at Muscatine Community College.
The event will be held at 1 p.m., Thursday, April 11, in the Muscatine Community College’s Student Center at 152 Colorado St.
Ms. Aronson was born in 1939, and the next year, her father and brother were taken to a labor camp in southern France. She remained in Brussels with her mother and other relatives, until eventually, they went into hiding in a convent.
Over the next few years, Ms. Aronson and her mother evaded persecution, surviving until the war ended thanks to the generosity of a pharmacist who hid them in his cellar, and then a widow who hid and cared for her for more than three years. Her father died in Auschwitz. Ms. Aronson immigrated to the U.S. in March of 1947.
Light refreshments will be served. The event is open to the public.
