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Join us for an evening with local Holocaust survivor Irene Skolnick as she shares her story of resilience. Irene was born in Przemysl, Poland. She and her family came under Nazi occupation on June 22, 1941 when Hitler attacked the USSR. In December 1941, the family was forced to move into the ghetto. As life became ever more precarious, Irene’s mother decided that the family’s only chance of survival was to change their identity. They obtained false papers and passed themselves off as Catholic Poles. The family left the ghetto in August 1942 and moved to Lublin. After the war, Irene and her family moved to France where they lived for six years. They emigrated to the U.S. in 1952, when Irene was 14 years old. The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh is a program of The Tree of Life