Holocaust, the Soviets, and then Freedom

Andy Sarkany, a Holocaust child survivor, brings his story of survival, hope, and the desire to eliminate hatred, bullying, and discrimination to Welles-Turner Memorial Library’s Friends Room.

Sarkany was born in 1936 in Budapest and lived as a young boy in hiding through the German deportations and the Soviet post-war occupation of his native Hungary. He escaped Hungary in 1956 and made his way to the U.S., where he attended college in Tennessee and became an IBM executive. He currently works at the New Haven Jewish Federation and serves on the Holocaust Child Survivors of Connecticut’s speaker’s bureau.

Seating is limited so registration is requested here or at the Reference Desk at 860-652-7720.