Southeastern graduate student interviews Holocaust survivor
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
by: Tonya Lowentritt
HAMMOND – Each year the Department of History and Political Science at Southeastern
Louisiana University sponsors a year-long series of lectures for Constitution Day,
Fanfare, Veterans Day, Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and Yom Hashoah
or Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Department Head of History and Political Science Bill Robison said that the department
has had to cancel several lectures scheduled in March and April because of COVID-19,
including a panel for Yom Hashoah that master’s candidate and HIPS Graduate Assistant
Joseph Ricci organized.
“Not to be outdone and determined that we must have some official observance
of the day, Mr. Ricci conducted an interview with Holocaust survivor Max Eisen,” Robison
said. “We are extraordinarily grateful to Mr. Eisen for agreeing to this interview
and extremely proud of Mr. Ricci for arranging it.”
Although Yom Hashoah is April 20 to 21, the interview is and will remain available
on YouTube at https://youtu.be/noytttGsYIc.
