News Release
October 1998
Holocaust survivor Judy Freeman will speak at Moravian
College about her experience at the Auschwitz concentration camp and
her struggle to escape the Nazis. Her lecture, titled, "I Survived
Auschwitz" will be held on Tuesday, October 20, at 4 p.m. in Dana,
Collier Hall of Science, Moravian College. This event, sponsored by
the German Club, is free and open to the general public.
Judy Freeman was born in Czechoslovakia. In 1944, after
the German occupation, she and her parents and one sister were deported.
By the end of the war, her immediate family, along with thirty-seven
other relatives, had been murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
She survived seven months at Auschwitz-Birkenau from where she was taken
to the slave labor camp of Guben. Finally, she was deported to the concentration
camp of Bergen-Belsen where she was liberated on April 15, 1945, by
British forces.
Judy Freeman met her husband Lou and was married in 1946.
After 18 months in a displaced persons camp, she came to the United
States in 1947. She became the director of the Jewish Community Center
Nursery School in Allentown until her retirement in 1985. The Freeman’s
have three sons and three granddaughters.
Judy is involved today in Holocaust education and in sharing
the truth about a terrible time in history that she managed to survive.
