Virtual Holocaust Memorial Day Speaker Event: Death March Escape

By April 1945, eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch had already survived nearly a year in the hell of Mauthausen, rated by the Nazis as the most monstrous concentration camp in the entire Reich. Though emaciated and barely alive, he was then ordered onto a 34-mile death march. He never reached his destination. Instead, he escaped. Recaptured a short while later, he was inexplicably not killed but instead was returned to Mauthausen. Put on another death march a week later, Dave did the impossible: he escaped again.

Author Jack Hersch tells his father’s story at our Holocaust Memorial Day speaker event – Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust. To purchase this book, click HERE.

This program will be available via Zoom and will be interactive. Speakers will speak first, then answer questions. Event is $5 per person. Please click here to register and we will email you a live link on the day of each event. A full list of speakers can be found at https://www.commonpointqueens.org/program/cultural-arts-and-jewish-heritage-events/.

For registration and more information, email [email protected] or call (718) 268-5011 ext. 151.