Conversation and Book Signing with Daniel Seymour

As part of the programming for our Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away. exhibition, please join us for a conversation and book signing with Daniel Seymour, a family member of a holocaust survivor, for his book From Auschwitz with Love: The Inspiring Memoir of Two Sisters’ Survival, Devotion and Triumph (Publish Date: January 26, 2022). The program will include video testimony of the two survivors, Manci and Ruth Grunberger. For tickets and to pre-purchase books, please click here.

Two young girls, Manci and Ruth Grunberger, are growing up in a loving Jewish family with their six siblings at the base of Carpathian Mountains, until the entire family is sent to Auschwitz where Josef Mengele chooses who lives and who dies. Their father, mother, and six siblings are murdered in the gas chambers.

The two sisters survive seven months in Auschwitz and another five months marching through the Sudeten Mountains at the mercy of brutal SS guards before being rescued near the Danish border. The sisters are found by family in Philadelphia and become some of the first Jewish refugees brought to the United States.

This remarkable story of resilience and survival describes a resounding triumph of the human spirit spanning nine decades and is written by the son-in-law of one of the survivors.