KIOS to air Renee Firestone testimony August 22, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 10:21AM Print Article On August 22, KIOS will air the testimony of Renee Firestone presented at the University of Nebraska at Omaha on March 2, 2011.
Renee Firestone is a Holocaust survivor and founding lecturer for the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Education Outreach Program in Los Angeles.
Firestone was 19 when she and her family were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. For more than three decades she has shared her testimony with students and others. Interviewed in 1994 she said, “The last words when someone was taken away were always ‘Remember us if you survive.’” She considers her survival as part of a mission to carry out those requests.
In March of 2011, Firestone visited Omaha to take part in A Week of Understanding, a joint effort of the Institute for Holocaust Education and Omaha Public Schools.
Ralston Recorder: Holocaust Survivor Speaks to Strudents - Mrs. Firestone’s visit to Ralston Middle School