Allan Hall - Surviving the Holocaust
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05:00PM - 06:30PM
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Join us for Holocaust survivor Allan Hall’s amazing story about how his entire Polish family escaped death under Nazi occupation and Russian domination after the Nazis were defeated in 1945.
Born Adam Janusz Horowitz in 1935, Allan lived comfortably with his family in Crackow, Poland. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, his family walked 200 miles to Lvov, Ukraine which was then dominated by Russia. When Germany overran Lvov in 1941 the Horowitz family was forced into the Lvov ghetto. Allan escaped two-child pogroms. He was transported to Warsaw where he hid with his mother for two years in a German headquarters building. Alan and his family had many narrow escapes until Russia defeated Germany in 1945.
In 1945 Alan’s father worked for the Polish government but spoke out and was sent to prison in Siberia. Allan, then 11, was sent by his mother with his 2 year old brother to walk with other displaced persons toward Palestine. His father escaped prison and was reunited with his mother. Allan’s parents then tracked Allan and his brother to a refugee camp in Baden, Austria. The reunited Horowitz family traveled to Paris, where they applied to immigrate to the United States.
A free copy of Allan’s story in the book, “Hiding in Plain Sight” is available at the link below:
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/edc65c_8c519a9c1c7f45599ecdecbe9e6fba84.pdf
Look Who's Coming
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Gretchen D. Grant
'67, MFA '69 -
Philip Maynard Kurjan
MS '70, PhD '80 -
Melissa Elena Lopez
MBA '06 -
