The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County will present While There’s Life…, a poetry reading and book signing by Holocaust survivor, author and poet Ruth Minsky Sender on Sunday, May 19 at 3 p.m.
The poems in the collection, “While There’s Life…: Poems from the Mittelsteine Labor Camp (1944-1945),” were written during Minsky Sender’s incarceration as prisoner No. 55082 in the Nazi slave labor camp in Mittelsteine, Germany. She endeavored to depict scenes from her own and other prisoners’ lives to give them courage and the will to continue living. As her mother, Nacha Minska, used to say: “While there’s life, there’s hope.”
Minsky Sender was born Rifkele Riva Minska to a Jewish family in Łodź, Poland. After the war, she and her family emigrated to the United States, settling on Long Island. Minsky Sender was a teacher of Jewish culture and history, specializing in the Holocaust. She has written four other books about her Holocaust experiences including “The Cage” (1986).
The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center is located at Welwyn Preserve, 100 Crescent Beach Road in Glen Cove.
There is a $10 suggested donation to attend the event. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP to 516-571-8040 or info@hmtcli.org.
