Rebecca Hauser talks about surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau

Rebecca Hauser, Holocaust Survivor, comes to Duke to speak about her memories of 1944-1945. Rebecca was 22 years old when the Nazis deported her and her family from her home town in Greece. They were taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. Her parents perished there, and after a year's labor there, she was taken to Bergen-Belsen where she was liberated in 1945. Her three brothers never returned, and their fate is unknown. When she returned to Greece after the war, she was helped by her cousins. Her uncles brought her to the the U.S. in 1947. This talk is made possible by the David L. Paletz Innovative Teaching Fund.