Special Speaker on the Holocaust

Guest Speaker, Sol Rosenkranz - Thursday, February 7, 1:30 - 2:30 (Grades 6-8, parents are invited)

Sol Rosenkranz is originally from Krošniewice, Poland.   While living in the ghetto at Krosniewice, Mr. Rosenkranz managed to prevent members of his family from going to a concentration camp by convincing five gentile families in a neighboring city to each hide one of his family members.  While Mr. Rosenkranz and his brother were working in a labor camp, however, he learned that the rest of his family was being transported to a death camp. 

Mr. Rosenkranz worked near the rail line and many of the Jews being transported would throw notes out of the car window in the hope that someone would be able to give their family the message; Mr.Rosenkranz received this type of note.  Eventually, he and his brother were transported to different concentration camps.  Mr. Rosenkranz was in six camps—two in Poland, two in Germany and two in Czechoslovakia.  He found his cousin while in Buchenwald and after being transported to several camps, they were eventually liberated in Terezin.  Only two of his brothers survived the camps.  He is a Gallery Educator and participates in the Speakers Bureau of the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.