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X-WR-CALNAME:Finding Hope Underground: Guest Lecture by David Lee Preston
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DESCRIPTION:When Jews are forced underground as hostages in Gaza or into sh
 elters in Israel during missile attacks\, and when Ukrainians must seek su
 bterranean refuge from Russian drone strikes\, David Lee Preston’s messa
 ge is as timely as today’s news. \n\n \n\nHis mother\, Halina Wind Prest
 on\, was among 10 Jews who hid for 14 months in the sewers of Lviv in 1943
 -44\, protected by Polish Catholic sewer workers. She was the first Holoca
 ust survivor to speak publicly around the United States\, beginning in 194
 9\, and became a beloved Jewish educator and Delaware’s spokeswoman for 
 the victims and survivors. She died in 1982. His father\, George E. Presto
 n\, a French-educated engineer who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald\, had
  a successful postwar engineering career with the DuPont Co. in Wilmington
 . He died in 2006.\n\n \n\nA graduate of The Tatnall School in Wilmington 
 and the University of Missouri\, David retired five years ago after a half
 -century in journalism that included 40 years as an award-winning reporter
 \, columnist\, and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. There he authored 
 three ground-breaking cover stories about his parents in the Sunday magazi
 ne:\n\n \n\nA Bird in the Wind\, on Mother's Day 1983\, which historian Mi
 chael Berenbaum called “the best article written on the life of a surviv
 or\,”Journey To My Father's Holocaust\, which made him a finalist for th
 e 1986 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing\, andSpeaking for the Ghosts\, ab
 out his 1992 trip to his mother's hometown in the Carpathian Mountains jus
 t after the Soviet Union collapsed. \n\nTen years ago\, David got the bigg
 est scoop of his career while emptying his childhood home in Wilmington\, 
 and that will be a focus of his presentation.\n\n\nLearn more at his websi
 te\, https://www.DavidLeePreston.com
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LOCATION:Memorial Hall\, 127
SUMMARY:Finding Hope Underground: Guest Lecture by David Lee Preston
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 lecture-by-david-lee-preston
CATEGORIES:Students
CATEGORIES:Academics
CATEGORIES:Community
CATEGORIES:College of Arts and Sciences
CATEGORIES:Lectures and Programs
CATEGORIES:Special Events
CATEGORIES:Global
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