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Inge Auerbacher
will share her World War II survival story at Salt Lake Community College Nov.
12 at 6 p.m. in the Lifetime Activities Center Area at the Taylorsville Redwood
Campus. Her presentation, “The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child Survivor,”
is free and open to the public. Tickets are required, however, and can be found
by clicking here.
Auerbacher was
born in Kippenheim, Germany, in 1934. She survived Kristallnacht — the “Night
of Broken Glass” — but in 1942 was deported with her parents to Theresienstadt.
She spent three years in Theresienstadt, where only one percent of the 15,000
children survived.
Auerbacher and her
parents immigrated to the United States after the war. Here, she was stricken
with a disease caused by malnutrition in the concentration camp. Auerbacher was
hospitalized for two years,and for many years after fought to regain her
strength. Although she missed years of school, Auerbacher graduated with honors
from Bushwick High School in Brooklyn, New York, in 1953.
She received a
bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1958 and completed post-graduate work in
biochemistry. Auerbacher worked for more than 38 years as a chemist alongside
prominent scientists in research and clinical work.
Auerbacher has
been lecturing on the Holocaust since 1981, speaking to thousands of people in
the United States, Canada and Germany. She wrote “I Am a Star: Child of the
Holocaust” and “Beyond the Yellow Star to America.” She was a featured speaker
at the United Nations Holocaust Remembrance ceremony. She has received
numerous awards for her work teaching tolerance and human rights, including the
Ellis Island Medal of Honor.