Join us in the Reich Auditorium on February 25 at 10:00 a.m. as we hear from Courtney Doi.
Courtney Doi will share the story of her grandmother Judith Klein, the youngest of six children, who left Berlin, Germany on the Kindertransport in December 1938 just after Kristallnacht.
Judith鈥檚 father, grandmother, two aunts, and two of her siblings died in concentration camps. Courtney inherited 30 years of her personal journals. Featuring old family photographs and firsthand accounts from her grandmother鈥檚 writing. Courtney鈥檚 presentation will explore both Judith’s journey out of Germany as a teenage refugee and her extended family’s experiences across Europe during the war.
Courtney Doi is the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor. She is a member of the N.C. Council on the Holocaust and the Holocaust Speakers Bureau for The Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education of North Carolina. She works as an Academic Director at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill. She lives in Mebane, NC with her husband, two daughters and their dog.