Jon us following Veteran's Shabbat worship for a special oneg with guest speaker Fabulous Flores.

About our speaker: 

Fabulous F. Flores received her Master of Arts degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Richard Stockton University of New Jersey. Prior to this, she graduated Penn State University with degrees in Journalism and Jewish studies. Her areas of focus include highlighting the experience of the untold stories and victims of mass atrocities. Fabulous’ thesis work, which she has named, “Reading the Silences: The Suppressed Voices of the Black Victims in the Holocaust” aspires to correct an erasure of history. During her time as a student, she worked for the Museum of Jewish Heritage and The Holocaust Awareness Museum as an education intern. Fabulous hopes to be able to incorporate the story of black victims into the field of Holocaust studies in order to provide a holistic study of the Third Reich.

About the topic:

Dr. Leon Bass is a Veteran Liberator. He has dedicated much of his life as a teacher, a school administrator, and a speaker, to fighting racism wherever it exists. As a nineteen-year-old soldier serving in a segregated unit of the U.S. Army, Leon Bass participated in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. That moment changed his life. “I was an angry soldier,” says Bass. “I was being asked to fight for freedom while at the same time, as a black man, I was constantly being told in many ways that I wasn’t good enough to have that freedom.”