Laszlo Selly has survived the unimaginable; a genocide that claimed six million lives of people just like him, and he’s hoping his words will prevent anything like that from ever happening again. Laszlo Selly has close to ninety years of life under his belt. His early years were spent deprived of freedom, dignity, and nearly cost him his life.
"Love is the answer. I don’t like using cliches, but this one, I’m okay with. Because I’ve seen hate, I’ve experienced it up close, I know what it can do to a person.
For years, hate turned me mute. I never spoke about the Holocaust. I never spoke about the feeling of profound hunger, or watching my mother break her wedding ring into pieces to trade for food, or the dread that twisted in my stomach as the Nazis marched us from Budapest to the Danube — guns firing in the distance. How do you find language for something like this?
7 years ago, I went on a very different kind of march. The March of The Living. Being on that trip, surrounded by other survivors, I rediscovered my voice. It was only then that I realized how sharing my story was an act of preservation, an act of love."
Join us at Chabd of Nashville to hear Laszlo's incredible story of courage and perserverance.
