Talk and Book Signing with Michael Bornstein
Date and Time: Thursday, March 31, 2022 (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM) (CDT)
Location: Marshalltown Performing Arts Center
Description
The Marshalltown Public Library will present a talk and book signing by Michael Bornstein on Thursday, March 31, at 10 a.m. at the Marshalltown Performing Arts Center. Michael Bornstein survived for seven months inside Auschwitz, where the average lifespan of a child was just two weeks. Six years after his liberation, he immigrated to the United States. Michael graduated from Fordham University, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, and worked in pharmaceutical research and development for more than forty years. Now retired, Michael lives with his wife in New York City and speaks frequently to schools and other groups about his experiences in the Holocaust. With Debbie Bornstein-Holinstat,
Michael is the author of Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz. This program is part of the library's Americans and the Holocaust exhibition, which is a traveling exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The exhibition will be at the library from Saturday, March 26 through Friday, May 6. For more information, please visit www.marshalltownlibrary.org/americans-and-the-holocaust-exhibition/.
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