Summer Survivor Speaker Series 2021

Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum on Tuesday afternoons this summer to hear the testimonies of Holocaust survivors, refugees, and hidden children, as well as second generation survivors.

Space is limited! Please register for one ticket per device used. Register here. The program will take place on the online platform Zoom. A link to join will be sent to registered guests one hour before the start of the program.

Marsha Gaswirth is the daughter of Holocaust Survivors Libby and Leon Bakst, Z"L. In 1941, Leon and his family were forced into a ghetto, and several months later, Leon was sent to a labor camp. He eventually escaped from the camp into the Naliboki Forest where he joined the Bielski Brigade partisans, a group of Jewish resistance fighters. After spending the war fighting against the Nazis however he could, he met his future wife Libby. They made their way to a displaced persons camp in Germany before ultimately immigrating to the United States.