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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 21, 2006

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One of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust will talk about her experiences in concentration camps during a University of Houston lecture, April 25.

Chaja Verveer will deliver the lecture as part of the “Remember the Holocaust” program paying tribute to victims of the Holocaust.

After being born in occupied Holland in 1941, Verveer and her family were captured and subsequently deported to several concentration camps during World War II. She was held at Westerbork, Bergen Belsen and finally Theresienstadt, where she was liberated in 1945. For the last 30 years, Verveer has worked as a consultant to both the private and non-profit sectors. Currently, she is a board member of Holocaust Museum Houston.

The lecture is free and open to the public. It will be held at the Elizabeth Rockwell Pavilion on the second floor of the M.D. Anderson Library. The event is sponsored by the Houston Holocaust Museum, the UH Honors College, Houston Hillel and Sigma Phi Omega. Refreshments will be provided at the event.

WHAT:   “Remember the Holocaust” featuring Holocaust survivor Chaja Verveer

WHEN:   7 p.m., Tuesday, April 25, 2006

WHERE:  Elizabeth Rockwell Pavilion at the M.D. Anderson Library

WHO:     Chaja Verveer, Holocaust survivor

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