Editors: Please include information on reservations in any media mention of this event, as Noémi Ban’s talks typically are full and people in the past have shown up without reservations, expecting to be admitted.
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Ban will speak about how she lost most of her family, and how she shares her story to inspire current and future generations to prevent similar genocides from happening again.
“Your generation may be the last one able to listen to a survivor,” Ban has told WWU students.
Reservations for her hour-long talk are mandatory and will be free to the public. To attend the talk, please reserve seating as soon as possible by e-mailing the
Ban will follow her talk with a question-and-answer period and then a book signing. Ban’s speech is sponsored by the NWCHGEE and the Center for Educational Pluralism, both at Woodring College of Education.
“I would hope that people who come would think about what questions might be asked by future generations in 40 or 50 years, and that … they would ask those questions now,” said.
The audience may write questions for Ban on note cards and submit them to Wolpow, and Ban will answer as many as possible of those during the event. Due to time constraints, all other questions will be answered on the new NWCHGHEE Web site feature “Ask Noémi” at http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/NWCHE/.
Ban retired as a teacher in 1989 so she could devote her time to educating students about the Holocaust. She is a recipient of the 1998 Golden Apple Award and has spoken almost 300 times in the past three years alone.
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