Brief: Holocaust survivor gives lecture

A first-hand account of the "Schindler's List" story will be told by one of
its survivors, Zev Kedem. The free lecture, titled "Schindler's List: A
Survivor Celebrates Life," will be at 7 p.m. April 15 at the Foellinger
Auditorium.

Kedem, a documentary filmmaker in his early 60s, was 8 years old when the
Nazis entered Krakow, Poland, during World War II. Along with millions of
other Jews, he endured the horrors of the concentration camps. Kedem was in
Aushchwitz and then five other camps.

Thanks to being placed on the list of 1,100 Jews compiled by Nazi
industrialist Oskar Schindler - a story made famous by Steven Spielberg's
award-winning movie - Kedem survived to age 11 and was liberated from the
camps in 1945.

Only after consulting on and appearing in Spielberg's movie did Kedem begin
to deal with the experiences of his youth and to speak about them. Since
1994, he has been lecturing college audiences. Despite the "darkness and
evil" experienced in his years in the camps, Kedem "has found a multitude
of reasons to celebrate life," and that is part of the message he brings to
audiences.