At the Legacy of Holocaust Survivors conference in 2002, Elie Wiesel said, “Whoever listens to a witness becomes a witness.” Survivors of the Holocaust are aging, and eyewitness accounts are becoming few and far between. It’s essential that their stories — of their experiences during the war and after, and of Jewish life before the rise of the Third Reich — continue to be told. Irving Roth was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929. He survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1947. As director of the Holocaust Resource Center of the Temple Judea in Manhasset, N.Y., Roth founded the center’s Adopt-a-Survivor program, which pairs survivors with children so that their stories will remain in the public consciousness. Roth will provide his personal testimony in A Harrowing Story of Survival, a lecture that is appropriate for all ages. 1:30 p.m. at Congregation Micah, 2001 Old Hickory Blvd. ERICA CICCARONE
A Harrowing Story of Survival
