The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust
Teacher Advisory Committee
Presents
Morris Glass
Holocaust Survivor and
Co-author of Chosen for Destruction:
The Story of a Holocaust Survivor
Morris Glass was eleven years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and changed
his life forever. A childhood filled with school, soccer, and cowboy movies was
transformed into a nightmare of ghettos and camps, unending hunger, exhausting
work, fear, and loss. Morris spent four and a half years in ghettos in his hometown
and in Lodz (the longest lasting ghetto), two months in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and
eight months in five camps that were part of the Dachau camp system. At the end
of the war, he was liberated by the American army. During those years, he lost his
youth, his home, and his father, mother, and two sisters. Out of forty-two close
family members only Morris, his brother, and a first cousin survived.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
7 pm
Beth Shalom Synagogue
5827 N Trenholm Rd,
Columbia, SC 29206