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Holocaust Education Week Brings Authors

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Miami Dade College will host two author presentations at the Homestead and Kendall Campus on Feb. 24 and 26, in collaboration with the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial Holocaust Education Week.

Author Leah Roth will speak about her personal account depicted in her book, My Eyes Looking Back At Me, which tells of her experience as a Jewish Holocaust survivor, at the Homestead Campus at 11:15 a.m., 500 College Terrace, Building F, Room 222. She will recall her struggle to survive the Holocaust while a prisoner at Auschwitz and the role of her religious values in the face of evil.

Carla McClafferty, author of  the book In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varion Fry will tell the story of the life of Fry, an American journalist in Vichy, France from 1940-41. Fry ran an underground network that rescued up to 4,000 Jews during the Holocaust. Among those saved by Fry were anti-Nazi artists, intellectuals, writers and political protesters. Fry is only one of three Americans to be given the Righteous Among the Nations honor from Israel’s Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem. The discussion will be held at 9:50 a.m. on Feb. 26 at the Kendall Campus, 11011 S.W. 104 St.

Admission to the lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Homestead Humanities & Social Sciences Chairperson Randy Kaufman at 305-237-5267.

Hector Gonzalez

Hector Gonzalez, 33, is returning to Miami Dade College where he will be pursuing a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Film at the North Campus. He will serve as a photographer and staff writer for the paper this year. Gonzalez obtained his Associate Degree in Mass Communications during the 2011-2012 school year while serving as Sports Editor for The Reporter. He earned the Best Sports Story award from the Florida College System Activities Association in 2011. He has also worked as freelance sports writer for the South Florida Sun Sentinel and the Miami Herald.

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