MSU Student Association Fall Speaker Presentation: Holocaust Survivor Inge Auerbacher

Mississippi State’s Student Association is sponsoring an inspirational presentation by Holocaust survivor and chemist Inge Auerbacher. The event is free and open to all. Born in Kippenheim, Germany, a small village located at the foot of the Black Forest in the southwestern portion of the country near France and Switzerland, Auerbacher was only 3 years old when her father and grandfather were arrested by the Nazis during Kristallnacht, or “Night of Broken Glass.” They were sent to Dachau concentration camp and later released after receiving very bad treatment. Her family had to sell their home and move to Jebenhausen, Germany in 1939. As a 6 year old, she was forced to wear a yellow Star of David on her clothing and was only allowed to attend Jewish schools. In August of 1942, Auerbacher and her family were deported to the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where she lived from the age of 7 through 10 years. There, only one percent of child prisoners survived. The Soviet Army liberated Terezin on May 8, 1945, and Auerbacher and both her parents survived. Click the link below for more information.