04 Jun DHHRM Summer Speaker Series
Date & Time: June 15 – July 31, 2026, 1 p.m Programs
Cost: Free
Location: Virtual and In-person programs @ Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
June 15, 2026 – Mark Jacobs is the son of Holocaust survivor Mike Jacobs, z”l. Mike was born in Poland in 1925. In 1939, he and his family were confined to the Ostrowiec Ghetto. His parents, two brothers and two sisters, were murdered at Treblinka Death Camp. Mike survived several camps, including Auschwitz and was liberated from Mauthausen-Gusen II by the U.S. Army in 1945.
June 26, 2026 – Hanna Schrob was born in 1936 in Maastricht, Holland. After the Nazis invaded Holland, Schrob and her family were arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Westerbork Transit Camp where they were held for six months. After transfer to other camps in Western Europe, Schrob and her family were liberated by the U.S. Army in France in late 1944.
July 7, 2026 – Rosian Zerner was born in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, in 1935. When Germany invaded in 1941, Zerner and her family were confined to the Kovno Ghetto. When she was 6, her parents helped her escape through a hole they dug under the ghetto fence. Met by her father’s secretary, Zerner was hidden by several rescuers before being liberated by Soviet troops in 1944.
July 13, 2026 – Julie Meetal Berman is the daughter of survivors Magda and Les Mittelman, z”l. Magda and Les were born in Hungary in 1923 and 1919, respectively. During the war, Les was conscripted into forced labor for the Hungarian army but escaped and joined a resistance group. Magda and her family were ghettoized before being sent to Auschwitz. She was liberated in Germany.
July 31, 2026 – Dr. Andras Lacko was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. In a twist of fate, Lacko contracted scarlet fever in 1944 which saved him from ghettoization and subsequent deportation to Poland. He survived the Holocaust in a military hospital and was later reunited with his mother and father after the Soviet liberation of Budapest.
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