The library will present a talk and book signing by Michael Bornstein on Thursday, March 31st, at 10:00am at the Marshalltown High School Auditorium.
Michael Bornstein survived for seven months inside Auschwitz, where the average lifespan of a child was just two weeks. Six years after his liberation, he immigrated to the United States. Michael graduated from Fordham University, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, and worked in pharmaceutical research and development for more than forty years. Now retired, Michael lives with his wife in New York City and speaks frequently to schools and other groups about his experiences in the Holocaust.
With Debbie Bornstein-Holinstat, Michael is the author of Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz.
This program is supported by the Thaler Foundation Holocaust Remembrance Fund.
This program is part of the library's Americans and the Holocaust exhibition, which is a traveling exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The exhibition will be at the library from Saturday, March 26 through Friday, May 6. For more information, please visit https://www.marshalltownlibrary.org/americans-and-the-holocaust-exhibition/.
This event is free and open to the public. If you are bringing a group of more than 8 people to the event, please call the library's Information Desk to register at 641-754-5738 ext. 4.