Perseverance — A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey

Hi All,

Please join us to help celebrate the publication of Perseverance: One Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Poland to America by Lee Goldman Kikel. Via Zoom, Lee will share her father’s incredible journey from the Holocaust to Pittsburgh’s Squirrell Hill, recorded on audiotapes in his later years.

Melvin Goldman seemed to be a typical successful American, living with his family in Squirrel Hill, a multicultural Pittsburgh neighborhood with a large Jewish population. There, he turned his craftsmanship as a jewelry designer into a profitable business and maintained a rosy outlook on life and a generous view of his fellow man.

In the decade before his arrival in the United States in 1950, Mieczyslaw Goldman saw his home destroyed, his family torn apart, his health ruined, and nearly everyone he had ever known murdered in the death camps of the Third Reich. His survival of the years in the ghetto and Auschwitz and his attainment of a somewhat normal life are miraculous. Here, his daughter Lee Goldman Kikel has captured his story from the audio tapes he made decades later.

Wednesday
April 21
1:00pm (EST)

Click here to register for the event.
A Zoom link will be sent the day before this event.

Hope to see you there!

Judy