{"id":371474,"date":"2026-08-14T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371474\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T16:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:48:10","slug":"the-florida-holocaust-museum-in-st-pete-hosts-a-weekly-conversation-with-holocaust-survivors-and-their-descendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371474\/","title":{"rendered":"The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Pete hosts a weekly conversation with Holocaust Survivors and their descendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1104\" height=\"978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/VoicesOfSurvivalFHMflyer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-264827 size-264827 wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Florida Holocaust Museum\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVoices of Survival. Detail of a flyer from The Florida Holocaust Museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voices of Survival is a weekly series of conversations at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Florida Holocaust Museum<\/a> on Sundays at 1:00 p.m. It begins this Sunday, August 16. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/tag\/the-florida-holocaust-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">museum<\/a> is located at 55 5th Street S. in downtown St. Petersburg. The conversations are on the museum\u2019s third floor and are included with museum admission.<\/p>\n<p>August 16: Halina Herman<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first conversation is with Holocaust survivor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhm.org\/event\/voices-of-survival-halina-herman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Halina Herman<\/a>. According to The Florida Holocaust Museum, Herman\u2019s \u201cfather was killed in a Nazi slave-labor camp; Halina survived because her mother obtained false papers and placed her with a non-Jewish family, who raised her as a Christian child. After the war, she was reunited with her mother and learned about her Jewish identity.\u201d She was born in 1939 in Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>August 23: John Rinde, Holocaust Survivor<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-august-23-john-rinde-holocaust-survivor\">\u201cBorn in Przemysl, Poland in 1935, John and his family lost their toy factory and apartment after the Soviet invasion in 1939, then endured the Lvov ghetto after Germany invaded in 1941 before his mother smuggled the family out using false papers to live as Polish Catholics in Lublin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>August 30: David Baras, Son of Viola Baras<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-august-30-david-baras-son-of-viola-baras\">\u201cDavid is the son of Holocaust Survivors and speaks about his parents\u2019 experiences and their effects on him and his family. His mother, Viola Baras, survived three concentration camps and a death march during the Holocaust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>September 6: Diane Mandell, Daughter of Halina and Ed Herman<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDiane is the daughter of two Holocaust Survivors. Her father, Ed, was in the Warsaw Ghetto. His mother tried to arrange a rescue operation, but he was abandoned by a man who was supposed to help him. Eventually, Ed ended up in an orphanage and was reunited with his mother after the war. Diane\u2019s mother, Halina, survived the Holocaust passing as a Catholic child in a Polish village.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voices of Survival. Detail of a flyer from The Florida Holocaust Museum. 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