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Holocaust Survivor to Address GSSM Students and Faculty
March 19, 2007
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Beth Israel Congregation
Florence, SC
2 p.m.
Tom Grossman, one of 22 Holocaust survivors living in South Carolina, will speak to South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics' (GSSM) students and faculty at the Beth Israel Congregation in Florence on Saturday, March 24, at 2 p.m.
Grossman, a charter member of the United States Holocaust Association and a permanent member of the South Carolina Holocaust Council, will discuss the need to remember the crimes of Nazism.
"To be a part of something like this may not be available to us 10 years from now," said Bryant Belin, Resident Assistant at GSSM and senior at Coker College. "This will be a very rewarding cultural experience."
In the summer of 1944, Grossman, then 16, was deported to Auschwitz from his home in Mahd, Hungary, with family members and other members of the Jewish community. Despite a near hanging by the Schutzstaffel (SS) and a forced death march, Grossman survived the ordeal.
An engineer by training and a manufacturer by vocation, Grossman migrated to the United States during the 1950s and settled in Florence, where he currently resides.
"We consider ourselves blessed to have this 'brand saved from the fire' as a lifetime member of our congregation," said Rabbi Jeffrey Ronald, spiritual leader of Beth Israel Congregation. "One of only 22 Holocaust survivors in the Palmetto State, Tom Grossman is an engaging speaker and a vibrant witness to the horror of the final solution."
For more information on the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics, please contact Jacqulyne Pouncey at the GSSM Foundation.
