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Holocaust Survivor Max Steinmetz- Interview with JSU Office of Public Relations

For more than 30 years, Jacksonville State University in Alabama has hosted a Holocaust Remembrance program in April. Holocaust survivor Max Steinmetz of Birmingham is one of many speakers who has shared his story at JSU. In this April 2013 interview with Heather Greene and Emil Loeken from the JSU Office of Public Relations, he tells his story. Mr. Steinmetz was born in Târgu-Lăpuş, Romania. Between 1942 and 1945, from the time he was seventeen until he was twenty, he was held in captivity in numerous ghettos or camps where he slaved as a laborer. He was the only member of his family to survive. When he was liberated in 1945, his 6'1" body weighed only eighty pounds. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1948 and currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama. JSU's Holocaust Remembrance began in 1982 as a project of the JSU Wesley Foundation. Over the years, attendance at the event has grown from a short event attended by 25 people to the current annual programs which often have an attendance of several hundred from the campus and surrounding communities. The annual Holocaust Remembrance is made possible by the JSU Holocaust Remembrance committee in cooperation with the JSU Student Government Association. Faculty, students, and community members participate in order to remember Holocaust victims and in the hope that, through education, an event such as the Holocaust can be prevented from ever happening again. For more information, please see the Remembrance Committee's website, http://www.jsu.edu/holocaust. Read more of Steinmetz's story on the JSU Office of Public Relations website, http://www.jsu.edu/news/articles/2013...