Past: Black River Technical College (BRTC) Foundation’s 22nd Annual Holocaust Survivor Series.

Black River Technical College (BRTC) Foundation’s 22nd Annual Holocaust Survivor Series.

Wednesday, October 22, at 5:30 p.m. in the Randolph County Development Center on the BRTC campus in Pocahontas, Arkansas a free, in-person presentation will be open to the public.

We do ask that everyone please register. To register for BRTC Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Series, you can contact Shawna Lepard, Development Specialist for Institutional Advancement, at (870) 248-4026, Shawna.lepard@blackrivertech.edu , use the registration link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JHM887K

Emanuel “Manny” Mandel will be the guest speaker for this year’s event. Manny Mandel was seven when the Germans occupied Budapest in March 1944. Manny and his family were among a

group of Jews whom Adolf Eichmann offered to trade for Allied material. In

exchange for trucks and other goods, some 1600 Hungarian Jews left Hungary by

train with the promise that they would be permitted to enter Switzerland. After

difficulties in negotiations, Manny and his family were diverted on a train to Bergen-

Belsen camp. They were not taken to Switzerland by Nazi transport until late 1944, first to a

Red Cross hotel near Montreux and then to a children’s home in Heiden.

In 1945 Manny and his mother emigrated on a British troop ship to Palestine. He

moved to the United States in 1949.

Together, with a continued commitment to education and remembrance, we honor the past while building a more informed and compassionate future.