YOM HASHOAH | HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

Monday, April 25, 2022  |  6:30-8 PM

Speaker: Eric W. Blaustein

Registration required; seating is limited. REGISTER HERE

Join with the Jewish Federation of Peoria, the Peoria Holocaust Memorial committee and the community in this important event. The Jewish Federation encourages students ages 10+ to attend as well, as they are the last generation who will hear these stories firsthand.

This event will be live streamed to the Peoria Holocaust Memorial Facebook page.

ERIC W BLAUSTEIN

Born in Chemnitz, Germany in 1926, Eric W. Blaustein entered school in 1933, the same year Hitler assumed power. In 1943, he went into hiding in an attempt to escape incarceration in a concentration camp, but was arrested in 1944 and sent to Buchenwald. After being liberated by the U.S. Army in 1945, he attended a technical university in Germany and earned his M.E. in civil engineering. In 1948, just days after his graduation, he left Germany and joined the Israeli army, where he served as a combat officer from 1948 – 1950. Blaustein worked in Israel as a civil engineer from 1950-54, marrying in 1951. In 1954 he arrived in the United States, and worked as a civil engineer in New York and Cleveland, Ohio from 1954-1973. In 1973 he moved to Pittsburgh, where he worked as a chief engineer, eventually becoming a vice president for a local company. Blaustein retired in 1996,  serving as a volunteer in the Anthropology Department at the Carnegie Museum in Oakland. In 2011 he moved to Chicago where he pursues a lifelong interest in Biblical history and archeology. Blaustein has 2 children, 5 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.

NOTE: We respectfully request that guests please wear a mask while in the theater for this event.

For more information call the Jewish Federation: 309-689-0063
or visit: www.jewishpeoria.org

In Partnership with the Jewish Federation of Peoria & Peoria Holocaust Memorial.