Tibor Klopfer has been a Holocaust educati on speaker since 2013. He was born in Hungary but grew up and attended pub lic schools in Indianapolis. As a second-generation survivor\, he presents vivid stories of his family&rsquo\;s experiences as Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust. With family photos\, maps\, and other illustrations\, he puts human faces on historical events and provides a perspective on the Holocau st that transcends sterile renditions of events\, dates\, and statistics. Beyond personal family history\, he explores how lessons from the Holocaus t apply to current events in the United States and globally. For his Kokom o-Howard County Library presentation\, he will include a parallel timeline covering American attitudes\, perceptions\, and responses during the time periods corresponding to the stories of his family members. \;
\n< p>Among the family members whose life stories he describes are his mother\ , his father\, and an uncle. His mother\, Manci\, was deported from a ghet to in rural Hungary to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was moved to an industrial slave labor camp and ultimately was liberated from the Bergen-Belsen conce ntration near Hannover\, Germany. His father\, Michael\, was processed thr ough Auschwitz and worked in forced labor camps before being liberated fro m Dachau\, near Munich\, Germany. He lost all his immediate family\, inclu ding his first wife and two young daughters. His Uncle Alex\, his mother&r squo\;s youngest brother\, 13 years of age at the beginning of the war\, w itnessed the devastation of his extended family and survived a whirlwind o f farm and industrial forced labor camps before being liberated from an Au strian factory camp.\n
Our volunteer guest speakers come to us f rom the Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council.
\n< em>In conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association's Americans and the Holocaust: A Traveling E xhibition for Libraries\, the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library has plan ned an accompanying event series to explore important themes related to th e exhibition. This event is part of that series.
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