Admission is free. This the first of two events that Cornell will sponsor to mark the horrors of the Holocaust. Geller was 4 years old and living in Poland when she, her father, older brothers and sisters and other relatives were rounded up by the Nazis and shipped to work camps. The Nazis shot and killed those who could not be productive in the work camps, including Geller's elderly grandparents and her mother, who was recovering from surgery. Geller was rescued from the Bergen-Belsen camp by British soldiers when she was 9 and brought to the United States by her uncle.
Admission is free to both lectures.
Geller's visit to Iowa is sponsored in part by the Thaler Holocaust Memorial Foundation established by Dr. David and Joan Thaler of Cedar Rapids.