Medicine and the Holocaust Seminar & Film Series

Born in Nazi-occupied Antwerp, Belgium, in 1942, three-year-old Sam Lauber had little understanding of the occupation or its ramifications when his parents sent him to live with the Detry family in Lalouviere, Belgium. All he knew was that he was being torn away from his parents and the family he loved. Lauber became one of the estimated 10,000 to 100,000 “hidden children,” who were secreted away by their families to live as members of gentile families who agreed to take them in and protect them from the Nazi occupiers.

Lauber will share his story during “A Hidden Child’s Story,” part of the Medicine and the Holocaust Community Seminar & Film Series, on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 5 p.m., in the Gandhi Auditorium in White Hall. A screening of Night and Fog, a 1955 French documentary short film about the Nazi concentration camps, will precede Lauber’s presentation.

The Medicine & the Holocaust Community Seminar and Film Series is an outgrowth of the Medicine & the Holocaust elective for fourth-year students at Boonshoft School of Medicine. The event is free and open to the public.