945 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130
5:00 p.m. Reception | 6:00 p.m. Program
This event is free and open to the public. Register today to join us in person or to view the event online.
Join us for an evening of remembrance and reflection as The National WWII Museum commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Photo courtesy of David Sherman/Transfer of Memory
We will be joined by Holocaust survivor Manfred “Manny” Sigmund Gabler. Between 1937 and 1941, the open port of Shanghai offered refuge to more than 18,000 undocumented Jews fleeing Nazi persecution, including Gabler and his family. Many settled in the city’s Hongkew district, where a one-square-mile, unwalled ghetto was established to house the growing refugee community. Gabler was just a year old when his parents arrived in Shanghai on the eve of World War II. He will share his memories of growing up in the Shanghai ghetto, his experiences as a child during the war, and his family’s eventual journey to the United States.
Gabler will be interviewed by Museum Senior Oral Historian Hannah Dailey, who has traveled the country extensively to conduct more than 700 interviews with WWII veterans and Holocaust survivors, significantly expanding the Museum’s Oral History Collection.
This event is free and open to the public. Register today to join us in person or to view the event online. For more information contact Chrissy Gregg, Associate Vice President of Education, at chrissy.gregg@nationalww2museum.org.
If you cannot make it to the Museum for this event, watch the event live through Vimeo.
Sponsored by Taube Philanthropies, this event is part of the Taube Family Holocaust Education Program.
