IUP announced yesterday that its Holocaust Remembrance Committee will welcome a Holocaust survivor to campus next month.
In a news release, IUP announced that Pittsburgh-native Oscar Singer will speak at the Hadley Union Building Ohio Room Thursday, November 10, from 6-7 p.m.
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Singer was 14 years old when his village in Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany, and he was sent to four labor camps and two concentration camps over the six years following that. Singer was sent to both Auschwitz and Terezenstaft and was the only person in his family that survived.
In addition to Singer’s appearance, IUP’s Holocaust Remembrance Committee is collecting items for the R.K. Agarwal M.D. and Family Teen Center and Shelter in Altoona. Items requested are clothing for ages 12 to 17, personal hygiene products, school supplies, individually packaged snacks, gift cards, crayons and colored pencils and coloring books, and bikes and sporting equipment.
Donations can be dropped off until December 10th in the lobby of Uhler Hall.
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