Holocaust survivor lectures at Denison

Date of Event: February 22, 2011

Posted: February 11, 2011

A survivor of the Holocaust will lecture at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 22, in Denison University’s Higley Hall auditorium (100 Ridge Road). Andrew Reeves, Wayne State University Professor Emeritus, will speak on his experiences as a Jew in Nazi-occupied Hungary. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Reeves was interned at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria and was 21 years old when liberated from the camp by American troops. His recollections give the audience an opportunity to hear a first-hand account of the Holocaust. The lecture is sponsored by the Patty Foresman Fund.

Calendar Listing:

CALENDAR LISTING, Denison University, Granville — Talk by a Holocaust survivor at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 22, in Higley Hall auditorium (100 Ridge Road). Free and open to public. For information, contact Liz Barringer at 740-587-6643 or visit www.denison.edu.

About Denison:

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

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