Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher will keynote the eleventh annual Building Bridges Conference, “Unspoken Voice,” Saturday, March 11 in Alumni Hall in the O.J. Johnson Student Union at Gustavus Adolphus College.
Auerbacher, imprisoned in the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia from 1942 to 1945, wrote the lyrics to We Shall Never Forget, which was presented at the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust survivors in 1981. She has been the subject of two documentary films, Inge and the Yellow Star and All Jews Out. Auerbacher is also the author of more than fifty published poems and three books, including I am a Star, Beyond the Yellow Star to America, and Running Against the Wind. She is currently working on her fourth book, The Discovery of Streptomycin, and a Life it Saved. Auerbacher is a world traveler, travel writer, and avid photographer.
The conference is open to the public. Cost is $5 for college students, $10 for non-student adults, and free of charge for high school students, St. Peter residents, and Gustavus students, faculty, and staff. This excludes tickets for the banquet, which can be purchased separately for $10 per person.
The schedule for the day is:
- 8-9 a.m. — Registration
- 9 a.m. — “I Am
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