Join Classrooms Without Borders, the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, and Community Day School on October 9th for a presentation by Holocaust survivor Howard Chandler.
Howard Chandler was born in December 1928 in Wierzbnik, Poland (now Starachowice). Nearly eleven when the Nazis invaded, he was forced into the ghetto and later witnessed its liquidation, when his mother, sister, and youngest brother were deported to Treblinka and murdered. Howard, his father, and brother endured years of forced labor, deportation to Auschwitz, and the death march to Buchenwald before liberation at Theresienstadt in 1945; only Howard and his brother survived, while his father was killed at Stutthof. After the war, Howard lived in England before immigrating to Canada, where he married Elsa and raised four children. In the 1970s he testified at war crime trials, and since 2011 he has returned annually with Classrooms Without Borders to share his story of survival and resilience, inspiring educators and students to confront hatred and preserve memory.
