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MILLIGAN COLLEGE, Tenn. (February 5, 2010) – Holocaust survivor Alfred (Freddie) Traum will share his experiences during World War II at Milligan College on Monday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m. in Milligan’s Gregory Center for the Liberal Arts. The event is free and open to the public.
“We have an eyewitness, and an articulate one, coming to share with us what life was like for Jewish people in Vienna under the Nazis,” said Dr. Ted Thomas, associate professor of humanities, history and German at Milligan. “We still occasionally hear from Holocaust-deniers. As long as people like Mr. Traum can tell their stories, the ugly truth about Europe in the 1930s and 1940s remains incontestable.”
Traum was born into a traditional Jewish family in Vienna, Austria in 1929. When Germany annexed Austria in 1938, the increasing violence forced Traum to flee the country on a Kindertransport to England. He and his sister were two of the 10,000 children who survived the Holocaust due to the willingness of families in England to open their homes to Jewish children.
After his family’s murder in Vienna, Traum and his sister began a new life in Manchester, England, where they eventually gained English citizenship. Traum married another Holocaust survivor, Josiane. In 1963, the couple moved to the United States, where Traum recently retired from The Boeing Company.
The Traums regularly volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
For more information, visit www.milligan.edu/arts.