Holocaust survivor Magda Brown will share stories of her experiences and ideas on how to avoid another genocide in a presentation at Bradley University on Tuesday, September 20, at 7 p.m. in the Peplow Pavilion in the Hayden-Clark Alumni Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Magda Brown was born in 1927 in a Jewish-Hungarian family living in Miskolc, Hungary. In 1944, when Magda was 17 years old, her family was transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. After several months of internment, Magda and other prisoners escaped from a death march by hiding in a barn. Discovered and helped by American soldiers two days later, Magda was able to witness the end of the war. She moved to the United States in September 1946. With the help of the US government, she was able to return to Hungary and search for survivors in her family. Out of an extended family of 70, only 6 had survived. She now frequently speaks and meets with students at the Holocaust Museum in Skokie, Illinois and has received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Aurora University for her dedication to sharing her story of survival.
