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Holocaust survivors are leaving us at an alarming rate. Soon, the world will be left to rely on memoirs and videos to learn the lessons of the Holocaust. To meet Holocaust survivors in person is to touch history. No two stories are exactly alike, yet the
struggle to survive, the personal loss and the strength of the individual despite overwhelming odds, always touch the listener.
Henry Greenbaum has an amazing story to share.
He was born in Poland in 1928, the youngest of nine children. In 1942 Henry and three of
his sisters were sent to work at a munitions factory at a forced labor camp. When
he and his sister tried to escape, she was killed, and he survived being shot in
the head. He would go on to survive the Buna-Monowitz work camp at Auschwitz, Flossenburg Concentration Camp, and a four-month death march. Henry was liberated in Germany in April 1945.
It is difficult to describe the feeling of awe a person experiences when hearing history from one who lived it. Please do not miss this positively awesome event.
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