Black River Technical College, in cooperation with the , annually hosts the BRTC Holocaust Survivor Series.
This important event brings a survivor of the Holocaust to BRTC’s campus in Pocahontas. Presentations are free and open to the public.
Survivors provide first-hand accounts of their struggles while personally experiencing the atrocities of the Holocaust. Past survivors have been held prisoner in concentration camps, others have been imprisoned in the Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Still, others have related their stories of being refugees to countries including France, Switzerland, and the United States.
According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning 鈥渟acrifice by fire.鈥� The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were 鈥渞acially superior鈥� and that the Jews, deemed 鈥渋nferior,鈥� were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.
You can read more about Emanuel “Manny” Mandel’s Story at
Presentation Dates and Times
The Holocaust survivor presentations will be held as follows.
