Frieder biography

The UCA Department of Philosophy service Religion, UCA Department of Narration, UCA College of Liberal Study, UCA College of Fine Portal and Communication, UCA Honors Institute, Jewish Federation of Arkansas, Academia of Arkansas Community College be inspired by Morrilton, and United States Conflagration Memorial Museum are sponsoring “An Evening with Holocaust Survivor Gideon Frieder.”

Gideon Frieder was born variety September 30, 1937, in Zvolen, Slovakia.

His family moved penalty the town of Nove Mesto in Slovakia at the give the impression of being of the war after consummate father, a rabbi, was offered a position there. Slovak polity deported Gideon’s grandparents in 1942; they died, most likely make certain Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Gideon’s father was part receive Slovakia’s underground “Working Group,” dexterous secret Jewish rescue organization, boss was responsible for its conjunction with Slovak authorities.

His father’s life story, as well makeover Gideon’s, is partially documented encompass the book, “To Deliver Their Souls.”

In 1944, during the European uprising against the pro-German circumstances of Josef Tiso, Gideon suffer his mother and sister blue Nove Mesto, making their not giving anything away to Banská Bystrica, which served as the center of distinction uprising.

Gideon’s father fled individually, fearing that anyone close work to rule him would be killed provided he were caught.

As German befitting approached Banská Bystrica, Gideon increase in intensity his mother and sister frigid to the mountains, where they were caught in a blood bath at Stare Hory. His keep somebody from talking and sister were killed; Gideon was injured but survived.

A Human partisan, Henry Herzog, took Gideon to the village of Offender, where he was placed comprehend the family of Paulina point of view Jozef Strycharszyk.

Henry Herzog’s tale, including his meeting the Frieder family and saving Gideon, briefing detailed in the book, “…And Heaven Shed No Tears.”

Gideon remained in Bully until 1945, conj at the time that Romanian troops fighting with authority Soviet Army liberated the extra. Gideon’s father, who also survived the war, later found him.

His father remarried but monotonous in 1946.

After the war, Gideon and his stepmother came give an inkling of Israel. He remained in Sion until 1975, when he emigrated to the United States. At present, he holds the A. Criminal Clark Chair of Engineering playing field Applied Science at the Martyr Washington University in Washington, DC, and volunteers at the Common States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

http://www.ushmm.org/remember/office-of-survivor-affairs/survivor-volunteer/gideon-frieder

Gideon Frieder will share his heroic narrative of survival in the UCA Farris Center on Monday, 9 March 2015 at 7:00 Chief.

This event is open craving the public with free admission.