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Conversations On Diversity: Surviving the Holocaust with Dr. Edith Eger

Conversations On Diversity: Surviving the Holocaust with Dr. Edith Eger

May 16, 2017
12:00pm - 1:30pm
CSUSB Santos Manuel Student Union | Live streaming of the event will also be available at the Palm Desert Campus, Oliphant Theatre.

SURVIVING THE HOLOCAUST

A native of Hungary, Edith Eva Eger was just a young teenager in 1944 when she experienced one of the worst evils the human race has ever known. As a Jew living in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, she and her family were sent to Auschwitz, the heinous death camp. Her parents lost their lives there.  Toward the end of the war Edith and other prisoners had been moved to Austria. On May 4, 1945 a young American soldier noticed her hand moving slightly amongst a number of dead bodies. He quickly summoned medical help and brought her back from the brink of death.

After the war Edith moved to Czechoslovakia where she met the man she would marry. In 1949 they moved to the United States. In 1969 she received her degree in Psychology from the University of Texas, El Paso. She then pursued her doctoral internship at the William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort Bliss, Texas. 

For more information or accommodations, contact: SB Campus:  Twillea Evans-Carthen, (909) 537-5635 & Mary Texeira, (909) 537-5547 | PDC Campus: Albert Angelo, (909) 537-8169.diversity@csusb.edu  | http://diversity.csusb.edu/  |

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