Erev Yom Hashoah, Sunday, May 5th
Irving Lubliner will read from Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust

Before she passed away in 1974, Felicia Bornstein Lubliner wrote about her internment in ghettos and concentration camps, Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen, in Nazi-occupied Poland.  Her powerful stories have been published by her son, Irving Lubliner, an emeritus Southern Oregon University professor and Rogue Valley resident.  He will share excerpts from Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust, shedding light on his mother’s experiences and indomitable spirit, as well as his experience as a child of Holocaust survivors and his process in bringing the book to fruition. 

“In just a few pages these stories vivify the horror of the Holocaust and the redemption of the human will.  Felicia Lubliner makes us realize in Only Hope that the spark of life cannot be extinguished even in the darkest of times.”  — Dennis M. Read, Professor Emeritus of English, Denison University

“This is the most moving book I have read about the Holocaust and Auschwitz.” — Edward A. Gosselin, PhD, Professor Emeritus of European History, California State University, Long Beach

“Felicia Lubliner’s Only Hope guides the reader through a Holocaust story that is much deeper than a number—6,000,000—giving us a human touch in the midst of inhumanity.” — Dennis J. Eisner, Senior Rabbi, Peninsula Temple Beth El