Holocaust Survivor To Speak At Ivy Tech Lawrenceburg

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 12:18 PM

By Press release from Ivy Tech Community College

The opportunity to hear such survivors speak won't be available forever.

(Lawrenceburg, Ind.) - A Holocaust survivor will share her firsthand experiences at a free presentation at noon April 24 at the Ivy Tech Community College Lawrenceburg Riverfront Campus Business Conference Center, 50 Walnut St. A light lunch will be served. The presentation is free and open to the public.

The community is invited to hear Dr. Renate Neeman, who as a child endured World War II in Europe, recount her harrowing experiences and provide her account about horrific historic events and the strength of the human spirit.

Dr. Neeman was born in Germany in 1926, and her family soon fled to the Netherlands to escape the Nazi regime. As the German occupancy spread across Europe, her family was forced into hiding, much like Anne Frank’s family. The family was reunited within weeks after WWII ended and immigrated to the United States in 1946 to join her older half-sister who had immigrated here in 1937.

Neeman became an occupational therapist and moved to Buffalo, NY, where she met her husband Dr. Moshe Neeman. Before moving to Cincinnati in 2014, she served as a speaker for the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo, NY.

The estimated number of living Holocaust survivors worldwide has fallen to 400,000, many of them in their 80s and 90s, according to the Claims Conference, which cares for Holocaust victims by providing vital services.

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