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| Dr. Zev Harel (photo by Corey Weller, courtesy of Elon News Network |
ASHEBORO – A survivor of three Nazi concentration camps including
Auschwitz, Dr. Zev Harel will reflect on his experiences in a talk at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, September 27, at the Asheboro library.
His
appearance is free and the public is invited.
Harel was 15
when he was liberated by U.S. troops at the Ebensee concentration camp in
Austria. He had experienced deportation
to a ghetto, transport to Auschwitz in railroad cattle cars, separation from
his family there, and forced labor at Ebensee.
A professor
emeritus in the School of Social Work at Cleveland State University in
Cleveland, Ohio, Harel has been a public
speaker about the Holocaust for the past 40 years, seeking to honor the
memories and legacies of the Holocaust and reflect on its meaning.
After his
release, Harel assisted with the immigration of Holocaust survivors to
Palestine. He served in the Jewish defense forces and later in the Israeli
military after the country was established by the United Nations in 1948.
He was
educated in Israel and the United States, and earned a Ph.D. from Washington
University in St. Louis, Missouri. He and his wife retired to Greensboro, where
one of their daughters resides.
Harel’s
appearance is sponsored by the North Carolina Holocaust Council.
The
library is located at 201 Worth Street. For further information, call
336-318-6803.
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