Join Holocaust survivor Solange Lebovitz as she speaks at IUP in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah).
In her presentation, hosted by the Holocaust Remembrance Committee and the Jewish Student Union, Lebovitz will discuss her experiences hiding from the Nazis and their collaborators as a teenager in France. She will also discuss her family’s experiences in hiding and in camps and her brothers’ participation in the French Resistance.
Lebovitz was born in 1930 in Paris. She survived by hiding in Normandy with help from a Catholic couple named Barbebier. Miraculously, her immediate family of eight all survived the Holocaust. They hid in various places in France; some were arrested at times but managed to be released. She was reunited with her family after the war. In 1952, she married Holocaust survivor Larry Lebovitz in Paris, and they then moved to Pittsburgh. Lebovitz has two children, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Through this event, the Holocaust Remembrance Committee hopes to show that IUP is a unified community dedicated to speaking out against antisemitism. Together with Holocaust survivor and speaker Solange Lebovitz, members of the IUP community will discuss the dangers of antisemitism—especially when it is not addressed and is allowed to continue with no response, sending the message that it is acceptable.