His kindly face and manner reveal nothing of the horrors Manny Lindenbaum and his family endured early in his life which remain relevant today. The Ocean County Library invites you to “Combatting Hate: A Conversation with Holocaust Survivor Manford Lindenbaum” in the Toms River Branch, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16.
The Jackson resident will speak candidly of the anti-Semitism that he and his family faced in their native Germany, what became of his family, and the ordeal of escaping oppression as a boy younger than 10 years of age.
Born in the town of Unna in 1932, Manny faced an uncertain future when his father was arrested. He and his siblings were placed with a non-Jewish family while his parents, Otto and Frieda Lindenbaum, and sister Ruth were destined for the infamous Auschwitz prison camp.
Manny and his brother escaped to Poland where they found a path to survival in the Kindertransport (1938-40), which relocated thousands of refugee children to Great Britain. Manny emigrated to the United States in 1946. He and his brother were taken in by an aunt and uncle who owned a chicken farm. He has lived in Ocean County since 1960.
Please register at https://bit.ly/OclTrCombattingHate for this free program. For more information, stop by the OCL Toms River Branch, 101 Washington Street, call (732) 349-6200, or visit www.theoceancountylibrary.org/events.
