Liberated men, Dachau concentration camp, May 1945. Photo by American Col. Alexander Zabin. USHMM.
Liberated men, Dachau, 1945
NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON THE HOLOCAUST

ANNUAL COMMEMORATION SPEAKERS: 2000-2012
Jay Ipson Jay Ipson (2012)
Survivor of the Kovno Ghetto and of hiding in an underground compartment in a farmer's potato hole. Native of Lithuania; resident of Virginia. Founder and executive director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond.
David Mermelstein David Mermelstein (2011)
Survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp. Native of Czechoslovakia; resident of Florida.
Robert Spitz Robert Spitz (2010)
Survivor of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Native of Hungary; longtime resident of the Carolinas.
Gizella Abramson Gizella Abramson (2009)
Survivor of Majdanek concentration camp. Native of Poland; longtime resident of Raleigh.
Esther Starobin Esther Starobin (2008)
Kindertransport survivor from Germany; sent to England at age two, arrived in the U.S. at age ten and reunited with her brother and two sisters.
Morris Glass Morris Glass (2007)
Raleigh resident and Holocaust survivor of Nazi ghettoes and camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau.
Kwame Braun Kwame Braun (2007)
Dept. of Film Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara. Co-producer of Video Portraits of Survival (two vols.), interview portraits of Holocaust survivors in the Santa Barbara area.
Christopher Browning Christopher Browning (2006)
Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Renowned scholar of the Holocaust and author of the ground-breaking study (1992) Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland.
Marianne Balshone Marianne Balshone (2005)
Hungarian survivor who credits the renowned Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenburg with saving her and several relatives.
Joshua Greene Joshua Greene . (2004)
Producer of the Emmy-nominated documentary Witness: Voices from the Holocaust (1998, with Shiva Kumar, broadcast on PBS in 2000), and author of Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor
Robert Jan van Pelt Robert Jan van Pelt (2003)
Professor of Cultural History and Theory, Waterloo University, Ontario, Canada. Author of The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial.
Nesse Godin Nesse Godin (2002)
Survivor of the ghetto in Shauliai, Lithuania, and the Stutthof concentration camp in Poland.
Aaron Hass Aaron Hass (2001)
Professor of psychology, California State University-Dominguez Hills. A son of survivors and author of The Aftermath: Living with the Holocaust.
Nelly Toll Nelly Toll (2000)
A hidden child; author of Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood during World War Two.
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