Nathan E. Cohen Memorial Lecture: Kati Preston

Kati Preston was born in 1939 in a small town in Transylvania. Her father was Jewish and her mother was Catholic. Her father’s parents were from a small Jewish village in Russia and had been murdered by Cossacks in a pogrom. Her mother was a successful dressmaker and seamstress. At five years old, Kati escaped the Nazi roundup of Jews in Hungary, when a neighbor hid her under the hay in the attic of her barn. Her father was forced into a ghetto and was arrested by the Hungarian police, when he snuck out to try to see his daughter. He would perish in Auschwitz, along with 27 other members of his family. Kati and her mother survived. Also, her book, Holocaust to Healing: Closing the Circle, is available at: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Holocaust+to+Healing:+Closing+the+Circle+

This event is part of the Cohen Center calendar.