Holocaust Survivor Guest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Monday, February 20, 2017
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Stephanie Hill, Director of University Relations & Communications
Office: 918.495.7337, Mobile: 918.720.5548
sthill@oru.edu

Tulsa, OK - Holocaust survivor Irving Roth will speak at Oral Roberts University on Monday, February 20 at 6:30 pm in the Timko-Barton Performance Hall. The event is sponsored by the ORU Theological Society, a student association in the College of Theology and Ministry.

"We want to educate our students concerning the reality of the Holocaust and the implications of the rise of Anti-Semitism today”, said Dr. Eric Newberg on the importance of students hearing Roth’s message.

Roth was born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia in September of 1929. Of 4,000 on his train, he was one of 300 who survived the first round of murders at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was later transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp in East Germany where he was freed in 1945 when he was 15 years old. He and his surviving family moved to the United States in 1947. From 1952-1954 Roth served in the U.S. Army. He is married with two sons and four grandchildren. He is a retired electrical engineer, a historian, lecturer and writer on the Holocaust. He is currently the Director of the Holocaust Resource Center at the Temple Judea of Manhasset, NY.

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