In My Own Words with Holocaust Survivor, Leon

This program is in partnership with William J. Lowenberg Speakers Bureau from the Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center (California).

About our Speaker: Leon 

Leon was 10 years old in 1941 when the Nazis invaded his hometown of Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine. He and his family were deported to a ghetto, surviving enormous hardships that included illness and starvation. He and his family walked over 200 miles to return to Czernowitz after liberation. They ended up in four different displaced persons camps in Germany before they were able to immigrate to the U.S. as refugees in 1951.

Program is free to attend, however, registration is required.

Special thanks to our partner Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center. Visit them online at https://holocaustcenter.jfcs.org/

2021 cultural season programming is sponsored in part by the following: