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Max Eisen is a Holocaust survivor, passionate speaker and educator who will share his story of courage to warn of the dangers of hatred and discrimination in society and to promote understanding. Born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia in 1929 into a large orthodox Jewish family, at the age of 15, he and his family were taken from their home and sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. His extended family including parents, two younger brothers and baby sister, paternal grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins all perished there in May 1944. The maternal side of his family deported from Slovakia in 1942 to the Majdanek-Lublin death camp, where they also perished.
The season runs from October 2021 through February 2022. This program will be held at the Purdue Northwest James B. Dworkin Student Services and Activities Complex on PNW’s Westville Campus, 1401 S. U.S. 421, Westville, Ind.
