Nov. 9 at RMC: A Holocaust Survivor Tells His Story
Randolph-Macon College will host Holocaust survivor Dr. Roger Loria on November 9, 2017 at 5 p.m. in Copley Science Center, Room 100 (304 Caroline St.) Loria, professor emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University, will share his story and his perspective as a Holocaust survivor. A reception in the atrium will follow the talk. This event is free and open to the public.
Lauren Nossett, RMC visiting professor of German, organized the event. This fall she is teaching a course on literary and cinematic representations of the Holocaust, and she invited Loria to share his firsthand experiences with her students and with the larger community.
“In addition to considering the many forms of Holocaust representation in class, we have discussed the moral obligation to be aware of human suffering and our responsibility to listen to survivors’ testimonies, so that we may carry the memories of those who suffered,” explains Nossett. “On the 79th anniversary of Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), Dr. Loria’s testimony will provide our students and community an opportunity to learn, remember, and honor the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.”
This event is sponsored by the German program, the Department of Modern Languages, RMC Hillel, the Department of History, the Women’s Studies program, and the Ethics minor.
Dr. Roger Loria
Loria is an internationally recognized expert in virology and immunology and an emeritus professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical College. He has many patents in immune therapies and travels widely to lecture on his scientific discoveries.
Although Loria was born in Antwerp to a large and loving family in 1940, the war left him and his mother sole survivors. In 1949, they immigrated to Israel with the Jewish Orphanage and began a new life there. In 1963, Loria came to the U.S. as a Rockefeller Foundation scholar. He came to learn and stayed to help—through a career that spanned 52 years—thousands of medical and graduate students. Loria has made a vast number of contributions to the field of medicine and to science.
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