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An Evening with Holocaust Survivor Sara Moses: Childhood Horror and Survival at Bergen-Belsen - Sunday, October 22 at 7:30 pm 

Presented by the Arvada Center and the Chabad of Northwest Metro Denver

About Sara Moses
As a young girl, Sara Moses had never seen a flower, or tasted ice cream. Her childhood was filled with violence, loss, and hunger. At seven years old, Moses was one of the youngest children to leave the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp alive. 

The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities and Chabad of Northwest Metro Denver invite you to hear Sara Moses’s story of childhood terror, tragedy, and survival. 

Today, Moses, who lives in Denver, is an 84-year-old survivor of the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where as many as 50,000 Jewish people imprisoned by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi forces died. The camp was liberated on April 15, 1945 - only a month or two after Anne Frank, then 15, died in that same camp, and 5 days after Moses’ 7th birthday. 

Moses’ hometown of Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, was the first of many cities within Poland to become a Nazi-occupied Jewish ghetto during World War II. She was separated from her family; her mother was sent to the death camp Treblinka, where she was murdered in the gas chamber, and her father sent to a concentration camp in Poland. Moses was emanciated and sick with typhus when Bergen-Belsen was liberated. Eventually, after she recovered and her name was placed on a list of Holocaust survivors, she was reunited with her father. 

“Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen from starvation and typhus,” Moses said. “At that time, I was right where she was, also infected with typhus, starving. ... I lived to tell what Anne Frank would tell if she was alive. That’s what makes my story so important.”

As many as 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, including an estimated 50,000 at Bergen-Belsen, according to the Holocaust Encyclopedia and Holocaust Resource Center.

An Evening with Holocaust Survivor Sara Moses: Childhood Horror and Survival at Bergen-Belsen - Sunday, October 22 at 7:30 pm 

Presented by the Arvada Center and the Chabad of Northwest Metro Denver

About Sara Moses
As a young girl, Sara Moses had never seen a flower, or tasted ice cream. Her childhood was filled with violence, loss, and hunger. At seven years old, Moses was one of the youngest children to leave the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp alive. 

The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities and Chabad of Northwest Metro Denver invite you to hear Sara Moses’s story of childhood terror, tragedy, and survival. 

Today, Moses, who lives in Denver, is an 84-year-old survivor of the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where as many as 50,000 Jewish people imprisoned by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi forces died. The camp was liberated on April 15, 1945 - only a month or two after Anne Frank, then 15, died in that same camp, and 5 days after Moses’ 7th birthday. 

Moses’ hometown of Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, was the first of many cities within Poland to become a Nazi-occupied Jewish ghetto during World War II. She was separated from her family; her mother was sent to the death camp Treblinka, where she was murdered in the gas chamber, and her father sent to a concentration camp in Poland. Moses was emanciated and sick with typhus when Bergen-Belsen was liberated. Eventually, after she recovered and her name was placed on a list of Holocaust survivors, she was reunited with her father. 

“Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen from starvation and typhus,” Moses said. “At that time, I was right where she was, also infected with typhus, starving. ... I lived to tell what Anne Frank would tell if she was alive. That’s what makes my story so important.”

As many as 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, including an estimated 50,000 at Bergen-Belsen, according to the Holocaust Encyclopedia and Holocaust Resource Center.

More about Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is a regional arts and humanities center that produces, curates, and creates national-caliber arts, humanities, education, and entertainment that are designed to help you see, hear, feel, and think a little deeper. Here, there’s truly something for everyone. You’ll find something you can not only relate to, but something that resonates—no matter who you are, no matter where you’re from.
When & Where
Oct 22, 2023, 7:30pm to 10:00pm Timezone: CDT
$25.00


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