Holocaust survivors Margot DeWilde and Murray Brandys will talk about their World War II concentration camp experiences in a discussion Friday, Oct. 9.
Minnesota residents DeWilde and Brandys will speak at 2 p.m. in Ostrander Auditorium of the Centennial Student Union. The event is free and open to students, faculty, staff and the public.
DeWilde and her family went into hiding in 1942 before they were discovered by Nazi troops and taken to several concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau. While in the camp DeWilde was sterilized as a test subject for Josef Mengele’s notorious medical experiments. Three years later she was rescued by U.S. Army soldiers.
Brandys spent six years in labor and concentration camps before making a long, forced death march from Buchenwald to Laufen with 2,000 other prisoners and no food. Brandys, one of only 200 who survived the march, weighed 60 pounds when he reached Laufen, where he ate from garbage cans before being liberated by U.S. soldiers.
He details his travails in his autobiography, “My Name Was No. 133909 ... and I Sang.”
Friday’s talk is sponsored by the departments of Anthropology, English, Gender & Women’s Studies, History, Modern Languages, Political Science & Law Enforcement and Sociology & Corrections, and by the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, the College of Arts & Humanities, and the Kessel Peace Institute.
For audiences outside of the university, Friday’s discussion will be streamed live on the Web at http://msustr0.campus.mnsu.edu:8080/event1.
Those who want more information may contact Catarina Fritz at (507) 389-1561 or fritz@mnsu.edu.
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