The Orange County Regional History Center offers a rare opportunity to hear from a survivor of the unprecedented genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II.  Surviving the Holocaust: Morris Rosen. This free program featuring Rosen, whose personal experience in this historic tragedy is a powerful story told with the intimacy and authenticity of only someone who lived through it.
 
“I owe it to my fellow inmates from all the concentration camps where I was kept. They did not make it, but I did, and want the world to remember them,” Rosen says.
 
On September 1, 1939, Rosen awoke in his home in western Poland to the sounds of airplanes flying overhead as German forces invaded Poland. Soon after, his parents were sent to Auschwitz, and he was forced to work for the German construction office. Later, he became imprisoned in a series of concentration camps, surviving death marches, and ultimately being liberated by Soviet troops. His parents and five of his siblings perished in the Holocaust.
 
This program is part of the History Center’s Brown Bag Lunch & Learn series, presented by Comerica Bank, and sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
 
Brown Bag Lunch & Learn programs are free and open to the public. Space is limited. Seating is first come, first served, and advance reservations are strongly suggested. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Guests are welcome to bring lunch or for a small charge, pre-order an Apple Spice Junction lunch and have it waiting upon arrival.

 
Call (407) 836-7010 for reservations.