The William S. Brettmann Lecture
Allyson Daly, an English instructor at WCC, will interview Ren茅e Fink who survived the Holocaust in the Netherlands by being a
鈥淗idden Child.鈥� Born in the Netherlands, Ren茅e Fink went into hiding at the age of four. She was fortunate in being able to stay with a Catholic Dutch family until after the war ended when she was eight. Reunited with her grandmother, they lived in another Dutch
town until they came to the U.S. in 1948. Sadly, Ren茅e and her grandmother were unable to live together, and she was sent to yet another family in the Adirondack mountains.
Although Ren茅e lived in an occupied and heavily bombed part of Holland during World War II, she shares with audiences why that time in her life turned out to be some of her best years. In her talks, Ren茅e likes to stress the resistance, goodness, and courage of people during war times and why those traits remain so important.
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