Join author Ron Schwarz at the Maltz Museum to discuss his book The Quiet Strength of Resilience: a Holocaust Survivor Story Spanning Four Generations.
In his book, Ron chronicles his late father’s journey: from his boyhood in pre-war Germany amid a rising wave of Nazi antisemitism to the teenage years spent in constant hiding, moving constantly to avoid the fate of so many millions of his fellow Jews at the hands of the Nazis, to the post-war reunion with his family, finally finding happiness and success in America. Drawing on research spanning thousands of pages from archives all around Europe, along with hours of interviews with his father, Schwarz paints a compelling picture of resilience and endurance in the face of the greatest adversity.
Ron Schwarz graduated from the Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Education. He taught high school math in Managua, Nicaragua and Cali, Colombia for three years before going on to pursue his MBA from the University of Texas, Austin. Since then, Ron has founded a myriad of companies, mainly in the information services arena. Ron serves on the Advisory Board to the Director of the “Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies” at the Univ. of Texas–Dallas and to the Dean of the School of Education at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison. Ron currently lives in Dallas, Texas and Park City, Utah.
The program is part of the 26th Annual Mandel JCC Cleveland Jewish Book Festival. See the full schedule.