Surviving the Holocaust: Joseph Alexander

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Chabad of Downtown San Diego and San Diego Public Library present Joseph Alexander, a survivor of the Holocaust, in a community discussion with a most remarkable man. Born in 1922, Mr. Alexander lived peacefully in Blonie, Poland until Nazi Germany invaded in 1939. By 1940, the Germans had begun transporting Jews to the Warsaw ghetto. Mr. Alexander eventually endured 12 different concentration camps, including Dachau and Auschwitz-Birkenau.


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Mr. Alexander experienced the horrors of the camps until 1945 when American troops liberated the area. He immigrated to America, married, and had two children. A resident of Los Angeles, he has become a leading voice for Holocaust remembrance. 


Chabad of Downtown is an educational community service center serving the larger Jewish community of San Diego with holiday programming, educational opportunities, life-cycle events and more. Find more information HERE.


The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews and countless other people by the Nazi regime, its allies, and its collaborators. January 27th every year is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.


 

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