The voices of those who were eyewitnesses to the Holocaust are slowly going silent as their generation ages, but it’s crucial that their stories are not forgotten.


Mona Golabek, the daughter of Holocaust survivor Lisa Jura, spoke to audiences last week at Ishpeming High School’s W.C. Peterson Auditorium and St. Peter Cathedral in Marquette. Golabek was the 42nd speaker for the Holocaust Awareness Program — a tradition started in 1970 and supported by Willard and Lois Cohodas.


Golabek, a Grammy-nominated and internationally acclaimed concert pianist and now an author, was not present during the horrors of the Holocaust and World War II, but through her artistry she is keeping her mother’s stories alive: the transport of 10,000 Jewish children from Vienna, the terrifying radio broadcasts of Adolph Hitler’s speeches, the bombing of London.