The Carlson Conversations Lecture Series continues with stories of Holocaust survivor Philip Markowicz, taken from his memoir, “My Three Lives,” and shared by his grandson, Steven Markowicz.
The free, public discussion is scheduled for 3 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, in Carlson Library Room 1005A.
The book’s title is a reflection from the author that he “feels like he has lived three lives, not just one.”
Markowicz’s first life was growing up as a young boy in Przerab, Poland. This was disrupted and his second life began when the Germans invaded Poland at the start of World War II. Of his large family just he and his brother, Henry, survived the ghetto only to be sent to Auschwitz and a series of other concentration camps ending the war on a death march that few survived.
Markowicz did survive the Holocaust to start his third life, one of rebuilding despite what he had lost. Markowicz met and married his wife, Ruth, in a Displaced Persons camp, and they eventually moved to the United States, where he worked hard to give his wife and three children every opportunity his new country offered.
