The OLLI Community Speaker Series features discussions with students, faculty, and friends of OLLI on ideas, innovative work, and timely topics. The purpose of these events is to bring a diverse group of speakers who will inspire, excite, and challenge the community with fresh ideas and perspectives on education, social issues, the arts, and our environment.

On March 10 at 3 p.m., Dr. Irv Lubliner, emeritus professor at Southern Oregon University (SOU), will share excerpts from his recently published book, Only Hope: A Survivor's Stories of the Holocaust. Before she passed away in 1974, Felicia Bornstein Lubliner wrote about her internment in Polish ghettos and two Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen. Her son, who also leads classes for the OLLI at SOU, sheds light on his mother's experiences and indomitable spirit, as well as his experience as a child of Holocaust survivors and his process in bringing the book to fruition. This is followed by a Q & A session.

Irv Lubliner teaches math, music, and literature classes for the OLLI program at Southern Oregon University, where he also serves on the Council of Directors. An emeritus professor specializing in mathematics education, he taught for 40 years and led seminars for math teachers in 39 states. In 2019, he created Felabra Press and published his mother's writing about her experiences during the Holocaust, the book that will serve as the theme for this presentation.

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Meeting ID: 892 9361 5319
Passcode: OLLI2021