The John Bartram Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution will meet Friday, Nov. 15 to hear Villager Gene Klein tell his story of determination and his will to live in order to survive the Holocaust.
Check-in for the event begins at 10 a.m. at Eisenhower Recreation Center. The meeting lasts from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Klein was a 16-year-old and in a happy, middle-class Hungarian-Jewish family when his life was ripped apart by the German Army. His family was put aboard a train and taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. His father was killed upon arrival. Through tremendous fortitude, Klein survived the deprivations and atrocities of life in the concentration camp. He was inspired to take one day at a time in order to find his remaining family. His story is both chilling and inspiring.Â
His daughter, Jill, has written a book detailing how Klein and other family members survived the Holocaust.
NSDAR will also honor Barbara Hinebaugh with a Patriotic Quilt, donated by Donna Milligan of the Sterling Stitchers, to recognize her World War II service. Hinebaugh joined the Civil Air Patrol and flew missions searching for German U-boats. She was awarded the Civil Air Patrol Congressional Gold Medal, the highest Congressional honor available to civilians. The Congressional Gold Medal for Civil Air Patrol was created by Congress in 2014 to recognize those brave pilots who, using their own planes, defended the home front from German aggression.
