Hiding in World War Two Budapest and Jewish Life in Hungary after 1945, Featuring Maria Coleman

In this lecture, Holocaust Survivor Maria Coleman will share her life as a Jewish child in Hungary and her experience surviving the war by living in hiding in rural Hungary. Coleman will share how her mother reacted as laws were enacted requiring all Jewish women to go to “work camps” and how she led her family into hiding for the duration of the war. Coleman will also share her experiences returning to post-war Budapest and the life she has built since then.

How to Attend

This event is offered both in person at Geisel Library and virtually via Zoom beginning at 5 p.m. Pacific time. Click the Register button at the top of this page and select your preferred mode of attendance.

About the Speaker

Maria Jutasi Coleman is a Holocaust survivor who escaped from Hungary in 1956, trained in Milan, Italy, at The Verdi Conservatory of Music to be an opera singer, then emigrated to the United States. She has a master’s degree in anthropology and a PhD in psychology. Coleman is an artist and a sculptor. Her acclaimed ceramic sculpture, “A Child Survivor’s Legacy,” was featured in a six-month exhibit at the El Paso Holocaust Museum. Coleman has two children, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. She lives in Encinitas, CA, with her spouse.

About the Series

The Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW) series is an education and outreach program co-sponsored by the UC San Diego Library and the Jewish Studies Program. It aims to preserve the memories of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust by offering public events involving witnesses, descendants and scholars and through the use of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive. Past HLHW workshops are now part of the Library’s digital collections and are available online.