Course Description

Only Hope: My Mother and the Holocaust Brought to LIght

Before she died in 1974, Felicia Bornstein Lubliner wrote about her internment in ghettos and concentration camps in Nazi-occupied Poland, powerful stories shedding light on her experiences and indomitable spirit, telling a story that Rabbi Dennis J. Eisner described as “deeper than a number—6,000,000—giving us a human touch in the midst of inhumanity.”  Her son, Irv, will share excerpts from her book, “Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust.”  You will learn about the Holocaust through his mother's eyes, as well as how he, the child of two survivors of Auschwitz, was impacted by his parents' experiences.

Bio: Irv Lubliner is a professor emeritus at Southern Oregon University (SOU), where his specialty was math education. During his 40-year teaching career, he led seminars for teachers in 39 states and gave over 350 conference presentations, including several keynote addresses.  Since retiring in 2014, he has taught math, music, and literature classes for OLLI at SOU.  In 2019, he created Felabra Press and published “Only Hope,” a compilation of his mother’s writings about her experiences during the Holocaust and has since dedicated himself to sharing her powerful stories through presentations for teen and adult audiences nationwide (including 86 OLLI campuses).