A lecture entitiled, “A Message of Determination, Perseverance, Faith and Hope,” will be given on campus Monday night by Marion Blumenthal Lazan, a woman who lived through the Holocaust.

The lecture will take place on Monday at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.

As a child, Blumenthal Lazan and her family was sent to Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp located in northern Germany, until its liberation in April 1945 by British and Canadian troops.

In her lecture, Blumenthal Lazan will provide a firsthand account of her life in Germany with her family, including events like Kristallnacht and her time in the concentration camp. 

Blumenthal Lazan’s life story has been the subject of a PBS documentary called Marion’s Triumph and she has coauthored a book on her life, called Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story.

The lecture is free and open for the public to attend.