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“The Public Relations Machine in Science: A Self-Inflicted Wound?” IRVING AND RENEE MILCHBERG “The Public Relations Machine in Science: A Self-Inflicted Wound?” JAMES GLANZ Tuesday, November 16, 2021 Parking is available in the Regents Drive Garage. Enter via Stadium Drive; an attendant will direct visitors within the garage. Additionally, the free #104 ShuttleUM bus runs between the College Park Metro Station and Regents Drive at about 12-minute intervals. Questions? Contact the Department of Physics at ABSTRACT ABOUT THE SPEAKER ABOUT THE LECTURE Renee was born in Jaslo, Poland, in 1929. She contracted polio just before the German and Soviet invasions in September 1939 and underwent treatment on what became the Soviet side of the frontier. She spent the remainder of the war in a Siberian labor camp, and then in a Polish orphanage in what is now Uzbekistan, before immigrating to New York, where she had relatives. Irving was born in 1927 in Warsaw, Poland. After the German invasion and the creation of the Warsaw ghetto, his father was shot at the ghetto gate, and his sisters and mother were taken to the Treblinka death camp. Because of his light hair and blue eyes, Irving was able to hide in plain sight, becoming the leader of a gang of teenagers who sold cigarettes to German soldiers in Warsaw while smuggling food and guns to the resistance fighters. He was trained as a watchmaker in a displaced persons camp before immigrating to Canada. He moved to Niagara Falls and worked as a jeweler and later owned a souvenir and jewelry store. Irving and Renee met in 1953, when Renee visited Niagara Falls as a tourist. They were married for 58 years and in their later years moved to Toronto. Irving died in 2014 and Renee in 2017. Renee's story is written about in "After the Girl's Club: How Teenaged Holocaust Survivors Built New Lives in America," by Carole Bell Ford (Lexington Books, 2010). Irving's story is central to "The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square" written by Holocaust survivor Joseph Ziemian (Library of Holocaust Testimonies, 1970).
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