CHILDHOOD OF PERSECUTION: HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR
TO SPEAK AT UH
One of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust will talk about
her experiences in concentration camps during a University of Houston
lecture, April 25.
Chaja Verveer will deliver the lecture as part of the “Remember
the Holocaust” program paying tribute to victims of the Holocaust.
After being born in occupied Holland in 1941, Verveer and her
family were captured and subsequently deported to several concentration
camps during World War II. She was held at Westerbork, Bergen Belsen
and finally Theresienstadt, where she was liberated in 1945. For
the last 30 years, Verveer has worked as a consultant to both the
private and non-profit sectors. Currently, she is a board member
of Holocaust Museum Houston.
The lecture is free and open to the public. It will be held at
the Elizabeth Rockwell Pavilion on the second floor of the M.D.
Anderson Library. The event is sponsored by the Houston Holocaust
Museum, the UH Honors College, Houston Hillel and Sigma Phi Omega.
Refreshments will be provided at the event.
WHAT: “Remember the Holocaust”
featuring Holocaust survivor Chaja Verveer
WHEN: 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 25, 2006
WHERE: Elizabeth Rockwell Pavilion at the
M.D. Anderson Library
WHO: Chaja Verveer, Holocaust
survivor
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