Cadets Meet Holocaust Survivor: A fortunate group of MMI cadets had the honor of attending holocaust survivor Blumenthal Lazan's lecture on her memoir "Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story" at Judson College today. "Following Hitler’s rise to power in 1938, five-year old Marion Blumenthal and her Jewish family (parents and brother) fled Germany for a refugee camp in Holland. They had visas for the United States and tickets for an ocean crossing, but just before their scheduled departure from Rotterdam, Germany invaded Holland. For the next six and a half years, the Blumenthals were forced to lived in refugee, transit, and prison camps, including Westerbork in Holland and Bergen-Belsen in Germany. The Blumenthals survived the war and were liberated from the “Family Camp” at Bergen-Belsen in 1945, but her father died of typhus several months later. Marion and her mother and brother traveled to Peoria, Illinois, in 1948." (Via Judson College website.) Blumenthal now finds great joy in ...