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News Release
EVENT NEWS / April 3, 2009
Boise State University Writing Project Presents Lecture by
Holocaust Survivor, Educator Irving Roth
Holocaust survivor and educator Irving Roth will speak at 6:30 p.m. April 30
at Timberline High School. Roth’s presentation is free and open to the
public and presented by the Boise State University Writing Project.
Roth, a native of Czechoslovakia, spent much of his childhood fleeing from
the Nazis and seeking shelter with people sympathetic to his family’s
plights. When he was a teenager, he was sent to Auschwitz and later sent on
a forced march to Buchenwald. His brother was sent to Bergen Belsen, where
he died, but Roth survived in Buchenwald’s children’s camp. He was liberated
in 1945 and moved to the United States in 1947, later serving in the U.S.
military.
Roth has been a tireless educator about the Holocaust and the dangers of
prejudice and anti-semitism. He is the director of the Holocaust Resource
Center at Temple Judea of Manhasset and an adjunct professor at the
University of Maine. He has received the Spirit of Anne Frank Outstanding
Citizen Award from the Anne Frank Center USA for his work and for his Adopt
a Survivor program. He is the co-author of “Bondi’s Brother” (written with
his son, Rabbi Edward Roth) and has developed a curriculum to be taught in
conjunction with “Bondi’s Brother.”
A one-credit Boise State course, presented by the Boise State Writing
Project, is available for teachers in conjunction with Roth’s lecture.
Coursework for the class will run from April 30-May 2. For more information
on the course or the lecture, contact Writing Project Director Jeffrey
Wilhelm at 433-9919 or
jwilhelm@boisestate.edu or Diane Williams at 384-1903 or
dwilliams@ansercharterschool.org.
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Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540,
juliehahn@boisestate.edu
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