Surviving Auschwitz: A Daughter’s Tribute to Her Father
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1h 45m
NCSML is honored to host Marie Žilová and her family for a powerful lecture on her father’s survival of Auschwitz. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 as a community leader, Jaroslav Sýkora was one of only eight men from his group to return home. Since 1970, Marie has kept her promise to share her father’s story so the events of the Holocaust are never forgotten.
Marie has shared her father’s story with audiences across the Czech Republic. For the first time, Marie brings her father’s story to the United States.
This program is presented in Czech with live English interpretation by her grandson, Jiri.
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