POCAHONTAS, AR Oct 3— Al Bromberg and Rachel Goldfarb will be the guest speakers for Black River Technical College (BRTC) Foundation’s 20th Annual Holocaust Survivor Series.
Al Bromberg, a resident of Paragould, Arkansas, was born at a displaced persons’ camp in a suburb of Torino, Italy, in 1946. Both of his parents were Holocaust survivors. As a child, Bromberg was fascinated with learning about what happened to his family and his people. His dedication has made him a self-taught Holocaust scholar. Bromberg will be sharing his family’s history and what they endured during and after the Holocaust.
Rachel Mutterperl Goldfarb was born in 1930 and lived in Dokszyce, Poland (present day Dokyszce, Belarus), a town three miles from the Soviet Union border. Goldfarb will be sharing her personal stories of her and her family’s survival of the Holocaust. She will be giving her eyewitness account virtually from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.
This year’s event will have virtual and in-person sessions. There will be two sessions on Tuesday, October 29. Goldfarb’s virtual session will be held from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Bromberg will immediately follow and speak from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. There will also be two sessions on Wednesday, October 30. Bromberg will speak from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., and Goldfarb will attend virtually from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
All sessions will be held in the Randolph County Development Center on the BRTC campus in Pocahontas, Arkansas, including Goldfarb’s virtual sessions. If anyone can not make it to the in-person sessions, upon registration they can log in from home to the interviews with Goldfarb only.
To register for BRTC Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Series, use the link below and please indicate if you are registering yourself, a group which will attend virtually, or a group that will attend in person: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/R6B7DDD.
For more information, contact Shawna Lepard, Development Specialist for Institutional Advancement, at (870) 248-4026 or Shawna.lepard@blackrivertech.edu
Black River Technical College is a 2-year community college in Pocahontas and Paragould which offers associate degrees and certificates in general education and technical and career education. The College houses one of the state’s law enforcement training academies and fire science academies. BRTC has 1,500 credit students and 2,200 workforce training students.