Holocaust survivors to speak on campus Monday, July 22

Editors:  Holocaust survivors Rose and Max Schindler will address students, staff and faculty at Grossmont College at 11:30 a.m., Monday, July 22 in Griffin Gate, Building 60.

Incoming freshmen from immigrant and economically disadvantaged families get a head start on college in the Summer Institute Program (SIP).   {See http://www.grossmont.edu/eops/sip.asp}

This year, as part of that program, the students have been studying the Holocaust, reading Night by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, and planning to make a class trip to Los Angeles to visit the Museum of Tolerance.

Holocaust Survivors Max and Rose Schindler of San Diego will address the class as part of this program.  Both Rose and Max were imprisoned as teenagers by the Nazis and survived the ghettos and concentration camps.   Max was sent to the ghetto of Theresienstadt, and Rose is a survivor of the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. 

The couple met in England after the war, when they were both 16, and were married several years later, eventually immigrating to the United States.

Reporters are welcome to cover what promises to be a moving presentation.  To arrange for campus parking, please contact Donald H. Harrison, acting director of college and community relations, at (619) 644-7840, or via email, donald.harrison@gcccd.edu.