Not a Dry Eye in the House

Holocaust survivor Marion Blumenthal Lazan displays the Star of David that she was required to wear on her clothing as a child in Nazi Germany as she addresses an assembly at Belvidere North High School on Wednesday, September 16, 2009. Lazan's family was imprisoned at several refugee and concentration camps in Holland and Germany during WWII; the members of her immediate survived their imprisonment but her father died of typhus shortly after his liberation. Lazan has told her inspirational story of survival to over one million people at such assemblies in the last 30 years. Her autobiography, "Four Perfect Pebbles", was published in 1996 and the hardback version of the book is currently in its 20th printing.