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Holocaust survivor shares memories at CCCC

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Holocaust survivor shares memories at CCCC

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Rebecca Yomtov Hauser, a Holocaust survivor, speaks to students and community members April 29 in the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center at Central Carolina Community College's Lee County Campus. Holocaust Remembrance Day was April 28 and Hauser spoke of her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration/extermination camp during World War II. All members of her immediate family were killed in the Holocaust. Holocaust Remembrance Day was April 28. After years of silence about her experience, she now talks to groups to provide a voice for all those whose voices were silenced in Nazi extermination camps. For more information about Holocaust survivor speakers, contact the Chapel Hill-Durham Holocaust Speakers Bureau, www.holocaustspeakersbureau.org. For more information about Central Carolina Community College, visit www.cccc.edu.

Holocaust survivor shares memories at CCCC

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Rebecca Yomtov Hauser, a Holocaust survivor, shows the arm tattoo she received in the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration/extermination camp during World War II. She spoke to students and community members April 29 in the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center at Central Carolina Community College's Lee County Campus. All members of her immediate family were killed in the Holocaust. Holocaust Remembrance Day was April 28. After years of silence about her experience, she now talks to groups to provide a voice for all those whose voices were silenced in the extermination camps. For more information about Holocaust survivor speakers, contact the Chapel Hill-Durham Holocaust Speakers Bureau, www.holocaustspeakersbureau.org. For more information about Central Carolina Community College, visit www.cccc.edu.

Holocaust survivor shares memories at CCCC

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Rebecca Yomtov Hauser (right), a Holocaust survivor, gets a hug from Central Carolina Community College student Rachel Morris, of Sanford, following Hauser's talk to an audience of students and community members about her experiences. She was interned at the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration/extermination camp during World War II. Hauser spoke April 29 in the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center at the college's Lee County Campus. All members of her immediate family were killed in the Holocaust. Holocaust Remembrance Day was April 28. After years of silence about her experience, she now talks to groups to provide a voice for all those whose voices were silenced in the extermination camps. For more information about Holocaust survivor speakers, contact the Chapel Hill-Durham Holocaust Speakers Bureau, www.holocaustspeakersbureau.org. For more information about Central Carolina Community College, visit www.cccc.edu.

Holocaust survivor shares memories at CCCC

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Rebecca Yomtov Hauser (right), a Holocaust survivor, greets Central Carolina Community College student Nicholas Snouwaert, of Chatham County, following Hauser's talk to an audience of students and community members about her experiences. She was interned at the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration/extermination camp during World War II. Hauser spoke April 29 in the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center at the college's Lee County Campus. All members of her immediate family were killed in the Holocaust. Holocaust Remembrance Day was April 28. After years of silence about her experience, she now talks to groups to provide a voice for all those whose voices were silenced in the extermination camps. For more information about Holocaust survivor speakers, contact the Chapel Hill-Durham Holocaust Speakers Bureau, www.holocaustspeakersbureau.org. For more information about Central Carolina Community College, visit www.cccc.edu.

Holocaust survivor shares memories at CCCC

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Rebecca Yomtov Hauser, a Holocaust survivor, spoke to students and community members April 29 in the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center at Central Carolina Community College's Lee County Campus. Holocaust Remembrance Day was April 28 and Hauser spoke of her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration/extermination camp during World War II. In addition to Hauser's presentation, the Chapel Hill-Durham Holocaust Speakers Bureau displayed "Dr Seuss Goes to War," a collection of political cartoons created during World War II by Theordor Seuss Geisel, the famed children's author. Geisel's cartoons denounce Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and are highly critical of those Americans who were opposed to entering World War II. For more information about the Chapel Hill-Durham Holocaust Speakers Bureau, visit www.holocaustspeakersbureau.org. For more information about Central Carolina Community College, visit www.cccc.edu.

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