Yom Hashoah

Join us for a powerful and moving Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Observance, honoring the resilience and legacy of Holocaust survivors.

Sunday, April 19, 2026
7:00 PM
Rogalski Center, St. Ambrose University

This program is free and open to the public. For more information, call (309) 793-1300.

The winners of the student Holocaust essay and visual arts contests will be recognized.

Speaker

Yvonne Aronson was a child survivor. She was born in 1939. In May of 1940, Yvonne’s father and brother were taken to a labor camp in southern France. Yvonne remained in Brussels with her mother, great-grandmother, and great-aunt.

Ultimately, they went into hiding in a convent with a group of 25 people. Yvonne and her mother later returned to their apartment, where her mother became extremely ill. A local pharmacist took them in and hid them in his cellar.

After her recovery, Yvonne’s mother found a widow in a suburb of Brussels who hid Yvonne for over three years. The war ended on May 8, 1945, and Yvonne was reunited with her family. Her father perished in Auschwitz.

Yvonne immigrated to the United States in March 1947.

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