AAUW hears Holocaust story

FALLBROOK — Guest speaker Gussie Zaks recently recounted to her rapt audience of Fallbrook Branch American Association of University Women and guests the harrowing events she suffered and survived during the Holocaust of World War II. She told of a three-month-long march from one labor camp to another where most of the participants perished from hunger and abuse. Photos of the horrors of the death camps, mementos of the roundup of Jews and other reminders of the tragedy were shown and displayed.

After five years of suffering and near death from typhus, Zaks was sent to Sweden to recuperate and...