Mr. Henry Greenbaum, a Holocaust survivor volunteer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., visited UACCM on March 12 to share his story.  Hear what he had to say in the video below courtesy of Morrilton Community Channel 6 or find out more at www.ushmm.org . Henry Greenbaum - Holocaust Survivor - 2013-03-11 from Morrilton Community Channel 6 on Vimeo .

Almost 70 years have passed since the end of World War II, which concluded a horrendous time in our world’s history known as the Holocaust. The University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton and the University of Central Arkansas are proud to announce that Henry Greenbaum, a Holocaust survivor, will visit Morrilton and Conway in March for three speaking appearances. Greenbaum is a speaker volunteer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. On March 12, he will share his story at 9:45 a.m. at the H.B. White Auditorium on the Morrilton High School campus. At 6:30 that evening, he will speak at the Fine Arts Auditorium at UACCM. Additionally, Greenbaum will speak at 7:00 p.m. on March 13 at the Conway Senior High School James H. Clark Auditorium. Each of these events is free and open to the public. Though we have brought in Holocaust survivor speakers in the past, each speaker is different and has a unique, heart-wrenching story to tell. As time...

The University of Arkansas Community College in Morrilton and the University of Central Arkansas have partnered together once again to bring the public an opportunity to experience hearing a first hand account of one of the biggest tragedies of our time. UACCM and UCA are honored to host Martin Weiss, a survivor of the Holocaust, who will be speaking at three different locations and times during his stay. Martin Weiss will be sharing his story of how he went from growing up in a small rural village in what was known then as Czechoslovakia, to being forced into a life of concentration camps and labor battalions. Weiss's and his family were deported in 1944 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Weiss, his father, brother, and two uncles were selected for forced labor; the other family members were sent to the gas chambers. Martin and his father were sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, and then to the subcamp of Melk, where they were forced to build tunnels i...

UACCM and the Morrilton area were privileged last week to witness two presentations featuring a true living piece of history. Survivor Agi Geva shared her eyewitness account of the events she experienced throughout the Holocaust with hundreds of area students and adults during presentations at H.B. White Auditorium at Morrilton High School and in the UACCM Fine Arts Auditorium. Unfortunately, a reality we face today is that in 15 to 20 years, the last remaining eyewitnesses to the atrocities of the Holocaust will be gone, and while in Morrilton, Geva captivated audiences by telling of her time growing up in Hungary, her time spent in the notorious Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Plaszow, the 400 kilometer forced death march she managed to survive alongside her mother and younger sister, and her eventual liberation by the American Army. A question and answer session followed each presentation, and audiences were then invited onstage to visit with Geva and view the infamous Auschwitz ...