Holocaust Survivor Talk: Erika Schwartz

When Germany invaded Hungary near the end of World War II, most Hungarian Jews still believed they were safe from the genocide that was happening throughout Europe. This would not be the case, as Erika Schwartz's harrowing tale shows us. Presented in partnership with Mizzou Hillel. Adults and teens. A part of the "Americans and the Holocaust" exhibit.

When Germany invaded Hungary near the end of World War II, most Hungarian Jews still believed they were safe from the genocide that was happening to Jews throughout Europe. This would not be the case, as Erika Schwartz's harrowing tale shows us. Erika is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors in the U.S., born in Hungary in April of 1944. She and her mother were able to stay safe in Budapest with false papers — they would come to find out at the end of the war that the rest of their family had been killed in the Holocaust. 

Presented in partnership with Mizzou Hillel.

Adults and teens. (See all programming related to the "Americans and the Holocaust" exhibit.)

Americans and the Holocaust: This event is part of the Daniel Boone Regional Library's programming related to "Americans and the Holocaust," a traveling exhibition that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. This exhibit is an educational initiative of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association and will be on display at the Columbia Public Library from February 9 through March 16.

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