Holocaust survivor Roman Kent - They were not lost. They were not misplaced. They were murdered."

Описание: Born in Lodz, Poland in 1929, Roman Kent survived the Lodz ghetto and several death camps including Merzbachtal, Dornau, and Flossenburg before ending up at Auschwitz. Roman’s father died of malnutrition in the Lodz ghetto and his mother was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Roman and his brother Leon were liberated by the U.S. army in 1945, while on a death march to Dachau. The brothers were reunited with their two sisters, Dasza and Renia in Sweden after liberation, but sadly, their sister Renia was very ill and died a few months later.

His adult life was dedicated to Jewish philanthropy and advocacy, serving as a voice for those murdered in the Shoah. He was President of the Jewish Foundation of the Righteous, an organization that provides financial assistance to those recognized as Righteous Among Nations who are living in poverty. He has also served as Vice President and later President of the International Auschwitz Committee since 2003, and was the Chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants until the time of his death. President Clinton appointed Roman to the Presidential Advisory Commission of Holocaust Assets in the U.S. in 1998. And in October 2011, President Obama named him to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the body that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

At the Claims Conference, Roman was a long-time Board member serving as treasurer, on the Leadership Council, a special advisor to the President, and Co-Chair of the Claims Conference negotiating committee. None of these titles even begins to scratch the surface of the work he did during his lifetime. From negotiating billions of dollars in pensions and compensation for Jewish Holocaust survivors from the German government, championing survivor interests with insurance companies, German industry, and eastern European governments, to advocating for Holocaust education, to taking on Facebook demanding that they remove Holocaust deniers from their platform, no task was too large or too overwhelming. Even as his own health waned, he continued to fight against antisemitism and hatred.


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