Please join us for the Helen and Leon Sperling Memorial Holocaust Observance on April 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center, Utica. The speaker will be Frank Grunwald, a child survivor.
Frank Misa Grunwald was six years old when German troops entered Czechoslovakia in March, 1939. In the summer of 1942, he and his family were deported to the Terezin ghetto. He was transported to Auschwitz in December, 1943, and miraculously escaped its gas chamber. After surviving four other concentration camps, he was liberated by the American Army in May, 1945. After his escape from the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1949, he spent two years in England and immigrated to the U.S.A. in 1951.
Grunwald received his degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute in 1956. He has worked for a number of large corporations in product design and new product development. Since retiring, he has served as a visiting lecturer on creative thinking and innovation strategies at the Department of Industrial Design of Purdue University.
He and his wife, Barbara, reside in Indianapolis. They have two married sons and five grandchildren.
We invite you to carpool as parking is limited at the J.C.C. and next door at Georgian Courts.