Holocaust Survivor Speaking Series Guest Speaker Roland Levi

Thursday, January 30 at 10:30 a.m.

Roland Levi was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1939. In 1943, he began preschool at the Institute de Notre Dame de Sion. The Sisters accepted the responsibility of hiding the children from the Nazis at the Institute.

Roland’s mother and father were arrested and taken to the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen. In April 1944, two members of the Belgian Gestapo arrived at the Institute Notre Dame de Sion and removed Nadya and Roland from their school. Both were sent to the Wezembeek Orphanage, eventually be sent to Auschwitz.

For more information visit www.flholocaustmuseum.org.

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