Genocide Denial - Holocaust Survivors: The Next Generations
2020 Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series
Please join us on Tuesday, February 4th for the third lecture in the 2020 series on the Holocaust and Genocide at Sonoma State University from 4-5:50 p.m. in Warren Auditorium of Ives Hall on the SSU campus. Three generations of the Victor family will present their family’s experiences during the war and in the lives they built in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Rena Victor was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1939. She survived the Holocaust in hiding with her two sisters and their mother. They were hidden from 1943-1945 on a farm north of Hamburg owned by friends of her German father who hid several others as well. Her mother lost her entire immediate and extended family with the exception of one cousin. She later married another German-Jewish Holocaust survivor who survived the Neuengamme concentration camp. Rena is a retired preschool teacher.
Her daughter, Susan Victor, is a professor of Curriculum Studies and Secondary Education in the School of Education at Sonoma State University where she teaches courses in adolescent development and classroom management. Susan is also a Board member of the Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide.
Rena’s grandson, Micah Victor Lesch, graduated with highest honors last year from UC Davis. He earned a bachelor's degree in History with minors in Jewish Studies and Human Rights. His honors' thesis, entitled Imprisoned at Home: A Comparative Study of Judenhauser in Nazi Germany, 1939-1945, examines the haphazard methods the Nazis used to ghettoize German Jews. He is currently the Engagement Associate at UC Berkeley Hillel.
All lectures are free and open to the public. The complete lecture series schedule is available online at: http://www.sonoma.edu/holocaust/
Please “like” the Facebook page for the Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide for more information about each of the upcoming lectures in the series.
A daily parking permit ($5.00) is required at all times, but it is not valid in reserved lots. Permit machines accept cash and major credit cards.
For more information, contact: alliance@sonoma.edu
