In
recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the National WWII Museum will host a commemoration ceremony on Thursday, January 27.
Dori Katz
will lead the ceremony as she reflects on her experiences during the Holocaust.
When the Nazis invaded and occupied Belgium in 1940, she and her mother hid
separately. Her father and entire family, however, were sent to Auschwitz and
never came out. Years after their reunion, she and her mother moved to America
in 1952.
Today, Katz is Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages and
Literature at Trinity
College in Hartford, Connecticut. There,
she teaches French and Modern European Literature.
Additionally,
she wrote the memoir Looking for Strangers: The True Story of My Hidden Wartime
Childhood. Her memoir was published in 2013 by the University of Chicago Press and was a finalist for an award
from the National Jewish Book Council.
The ceremony
will take place in the U.S. Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center from 6 to 7
p.m. It'll also be available on Vimeo. The event is open to everyone at
no cost.
To register, visit nationalww2museum.org.
