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\nIrene Butter - From Holocaust to Hope\n

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\nDr. Irene Butter is a Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, where she taught for over 36 years. A Holocaust survivor, she was born in Berlin and lived an idyllic early childhood before her family fled...\nDr. Irene Butter is a Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, where she taught for over 36 years. A Holocaust survivor, she was born in Berlin and lived an idyllic early childhood before her family fled Nazi Germany to the Netherlands. After the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, her family was deported to the Westerbork transit camp and then to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they endured inhumane conditions. Miraculously, due to Ecuadorian passports obtained by her father, her family was classified as \"exchange Jews\" and eventually transported on a Red Cross train out of the camp. Tragically, her father died just before reaching safety. After the war, she reunited with her mother and brother and eventually immigrated to the United States, where she built a full life—earning a PhD, becoming a professor, and raising a family. In retirement, she wrote her memoir, Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope, and now speaks widely to students and communities to share her story of resilience and hope\n
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11:37
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2025
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