FREE LECTURE– OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
ONLY HOPE A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust
“It was easy to die at Auschwitz; one did not have to be a hero to die. There were many ways you could have saved the SS the work; all you had to do was give up. Give up willingly the spark of life still flickering in you—that last thing you had, which they were so determined to take.” Before she passed away in 1974, Felicia Bornstein Lubliner wrote about her internment in Polish slums and two concentration camps, Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen. Her powerful stories have been published by her son, Irv Lubliner. He will share excerpts from “Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust,” shedding light on his mother’s experiences and indomitable spirit, as well as his own experience as a child of Holocaust survivors and his process in bringing the book to fruition.
PRESENTER: Irving Lubliner
Book can be purchased at OnlyHopeBook.com
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29 Felicia Lubliner soon after liberation
Irving Lubliner teaches math, blues harmonica, and literature classes for the OLLI program at Southern Oregon University (SOU). An emeritus SOU professor specializing in mathematics education, he taught for 40 years (at all levels, kindergarten through graduate school), led seminars for teachers in 39 states, and gave over 350 conference presentations, including several keynote addresses. In 2019, he created Felabra Press and published his mother’s writings about her experiences during the Holocaust, the book that will be the theme for this presentation.
FRIDAY 11:00 am CST The presenter will be presenting on Zoom (not in person)
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