We are delighted to be offering our Distinguished Lecture Series again this year, structured around the three categories of our educational programs: Anti Bias, Human Rights, and the Holocaust. Our first speaker is Mark Wygoda, Professor Emeritus from McNeese State University in Louisiana and a current member of the Holocaust Speakers Bureau of the Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education of North Carolina. Mark has 30 years of experience giving presentations about his father, Hermann Wygoda, a German-born Polish Jew who initially was a Warsaw ghetto food smuggler and later a partisan brigade commander during the Holocaust. His father's story is one of defiance and resistance. Posing as a Catholic Pole of German ancestry, Hermann lived and worked in open society while secretly helping other Jews by smuggling food into the Warsaw ghetto. He later aggressively fought back against his enemies after he became a commander of partisan fighters in German-occupied northern Italy. Following the war, he was awarded an American Bronze Star medal for valor in combat by US General Mark Clark, and then immigrated to the US to start a new life. After his death Mark edited and published his father’s memoir, entitled In the Shadow of the Swastika. Please join us by Zoom on November 7th at 6:30 p.m. to learn about this fascinating story. Please contact us if you wish to earn 1.5 CEUs for attending the session. Register here.