Providence, R.I.--Rabbi Baruch Goldstein, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, will discuss his imprisonment at the hands of the Nazis and his struggles with faith at Providence College on Tuesday, April 14, at 4:30 p.m.
 
The lecture, "For Decades I Was Silent: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Back to Faith," will be held in Moore Hall III and is open to the public. It is sponsored by the Department of Theology, the Development of Western Civilization Program, and the Liberal Arts Honors Program.

Rabbi Goldstein was born in Mlawa, East Prussia. In 1942, he was sent to Auschwitz, where he was imprisoned for almost three years during World War II. After the war, he came to the United States, where he became a rabbi.

Rabbi Goldstein will share his experience of life in a small Polish-German town and personal accounts of the random, face-to-face violence he and others suffered at the hands of the Nazis. 

He also will speak about his faith and how he was forced as a young rabbinical student to confront the atrocities and the events of the Holocaust and the damage done to his faith.

Rabbi Goldstein is a former Hebrew teacher and youth director at Congregation Beth Israel in Worcester, Mass. Since his retirement, he has traveled widely as a speaker on the Holocaust. He is the author of For Decades I Was Silent: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Back to Faith (University of Alabama Press, 2008).

For more information, contact Dr. Arthur Urbano, assistant professor of theology, at 401-865-1351 or at aurbano@providence.edu.

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