NEWS > 1 OPINION > 2 FEATURES > 5 SPORTS > 7 APRIL 28, 2010 1 Official Student Media of Valencia Community College June 16 2010 VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 4 VALENCIAVOICE.COM Official Student Media of Valencia Community College Spirit of the game takes a Holocaust survivor recounts 5 years of tragedy swan dive Chuck Myers/MCT By Julio Melendez ing events that caused audience Pg.2
[email protected] members to sink into their sets. “The worst started,” on Aug. 1, Morris Rosen’s life changed for ever 1942, recalled Rosen, when the Ger- on a September morning in 1939. mans started to send all but 350 peo- Rosen was 16 years old when ple to the concentration camps on the Germans invaded Poland, and that day. Rosen watched in horror as Aguilera and he told his tail of survival during 40,000 Jews were forced into trains, the Holocaust to a captive audi- while 2,000 others were shoot dead Hawthorne ence of more than 150 people, at for lack of room on the trains. Heights re- the Orange County Regional His- “Five more minutes,” one of the tory Center on June 8. history center volunteers says to lease new “Speechless,” said Evelyn Diaz of Rosen, “Oh my, already?” he asks, Altamonte Springs. “All I can remem- he then tries to fit in as much as he noise Pg.5 ber right now is the last thing he said can, from the last day he sees Po- about hate not being the answer.” land, to the day he’s liberated by Lionel Hahn/Abaca Press/MCT Rosen had one hour to share five the Russians, but it’s just too much, years of experiences and nightmares, Jen Cipolla, Orange County Regional History Center and time runs out.