Inge is available to speak at schools and adult groups. You can contact Inge at ingeauerbacher@yahoo.com or (718) 526-5903. Or click here to visit her website for more information.

Inge was born in Germany and spent three years between 7-10 years of age in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where out of 15,000 children, about 1 percent survived.

She tells her life story in two books; "I am a Star"- Child of the Holocaust and “Beyond the Yellow Star to America.” Inge has also reached out to the African-American community by writing about her friends, Mary and Martha DeSaussure; pioneering track stars of Brooklyn in her third book, “Running Against the Wind.” She has just written a fourth book "Finding Dr. Schatz" - The Discovery of Streptomycin and A Life It Saved. Inge recently received a honorary "Doctorate of Humane Letters" from Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus

Marion Blumenthal Lazan

Marion is available to speak at schools and adult groups. Contact Marion Blumenthal Lazan at Marion@fourperfectpebbles.com or 516-374-5958 to find out how a presentation can be arranged. Or click here to visit her website for more information.

Following Hitler's rise to power, the Blumenthal family -- father, mother, Marion, and her brother, Albert -- were trapped in Nazi Germany. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the Nazis. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthals were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps that included Westerbork in Holland and the notorious Bergen-Belsen in Germany. Though they all survived the camps, Walter Blumenthal, the father, succumbed to typhus just after liberation.

It took three more years of struggle and waiting before Marion, Albert, and their mother at last obtained the necessary papers and boarded ship for the United States. Their story is one of horror and hardship, but it is also a story of courage, hope, and the will to survive.

Walter Wolff

Mr Wolff is available to speak at schools, organization meetings, etc.
For further information please contact the Holocaust Committee at 516 536-9227.


Born in Achen and raised in Frankfurt, Germany, Walter and his brother were arrested by the SS one day after Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. Upon their release, they fled to Italy. Walter survived because of the willingness of strangers to risk their lives on his behalf. Now living in Long Beach, New York, Walter is a sought after lecturer on the Holocaust and a recipient of the prestigious New York State, Louis E. Yavner Award, awarded annually to individual's who have contributed meaningfully to Holocaust Education in the State of New York. Walter is also the author of Bad Times, Good People, which recounts his experiences in Italy during World War II.