This evening event will feature very special guests who have endured grave danger, extreme violence and unspeakable hardship. But they have survived and now bear witness to evil, in the hope of preventing such suffering in the future.
Bea Karp’s family came face-to-face with the Nazis’ Kristallnacht when synagogues, Jewish homes and stores were destroyed. Her family suffered many hardships. Bea and her sister were taken in by those who would keep them safe, but they would never see their parents alive again. She tells her story so the world will not forget how hatred and prejudice can manifest in true evil, and so nothing like that happens again.
Channy Chhi Laux lived to tell her family’s story of the killing fields in Cambodia, when her own government enslaved, starved and caused the deaths of so many of its own citizens that it is one of the largest genocides on record. She made it her mission to see that the story is never forgotten.
Shireen Ibrahim cannot stand to look at the photo of the man from ISIS who kidnapped, tortured and sold her and other Yazidi women into slavery. Yet she keeps it on her cell phone just the same, because she doesn’t want the truth to disappear. Her mission is to seek justice for family members and others who remain missing.
All three women are survivors with ties to Nebraska; they will tell their stories on October 11th at Kimball Recital Hall, located at 1113 R Street on the University of Nebraska Lincoln campus from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Doors will open at 7:00 p.m.
This special event is open to the public, but RSVP’s are requested at
http://www.lfsneb.org/events/stories-of-survival/.