Agnes Grunwald-Spier: Women Heroes of the Holocaust (03/27/2019) Student Life Center Board of Trust Room at 5 PM
Location:
Student Life Center Board of Trust Room
310 25th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37240
Time:
5:00 PM
Agnes Grunwald-Spier was born in Budapest in July 1944. She and her mother were sent to the ghetto there in November 1944 and were liberated in January 1945. A former civil servant, she holds degrees in History and Politics and Holocaust Studies, and was a founding trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews for 15 years, a member of the Architects’ Registration Board and a Justice of the Peace for 30 years.
Ms. Grunwald-Spier currently lives in London. She was awarded an MBE in the 2016 New year Honours List for her work as a Holocaust Memorial Day Trust Trustee and for services to Holocaust awareness.
Ms. Grunwald-Spier is the author of three books, Women’s Experiences in the Holocaust, Who Betrayed the Jews? and The Other Schindlers. (Co-sponsored by The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center and Vanderbilt Divinity School)