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April 20 – upDATE

Upcoming event featured in Around the O
        Rob Aigner’s parents never talked about their experiences surviving the Holocaust, when he and his sister Sue were growing up in suburban Portland.

     It wasn’t until a high school history class sparked his interest in the subject that Aigner, a 1986 UO graduate, asked what had happened to them in Nazi-occupied Europe.

     “They were incredibly reluctant to talk about it,” he said. “They didn’t want to have anything to do with the conversation.”

     But when Holocaust deniers started spreading their message of hate across America in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Aigner said his parents could no longer stay silent.
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