3GNY Stories Live: WEDU Wednesday featuring Lauren Engelman and David Berliner

Loving Lillian: Lillian Berliner’s Extraordinary Story of Survival and Resilience

Wednesday, August 13 | 8:00pm ET | On Zoom

Join us on August 13 for the next installment of our popular WEDU Wednesday series as siblings and 3GNY volunteers, Lauren Engelman and David Berliner, share the story of their grandmother, Lillian Berliner.

Lillian Berliner was born in Cluj, Romania in 1926 and had a beautiful childhood full of Montessori school, ice skating and skiing in the winter and had a high school sweetheart. Her family lived an upper middle class life and Jews were largely assimilated (to Hungary, at the time) and loyal to their leaders. In 1944, when Transylvania was annexed back to Hungary, Lillian was transported to Auschwitz with her family from the ghetto they were living in. By a miracle, she and her mother were selected for Bremen Labor Camp and then liberated from Bergen Belsen in 1945. After Liberation, Lillian worked as a translator in the DP Camps, met her husband, and then eventually came to the United States to start her family. Lillian lived a full and extraordinary life, marked by both her resilient survival, but also by her family and her prolific career in social work administration. Although her early life was marked by hardship, she lived her later years surrounded by love and her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

About Lauren and David

Lauren Berliner Engelman is based in Chatham, NJ with her husband and two children, and is a Senior Global Client Partner at Indeed. She has volunteered and participated with 3GNY for over a decade, including involvement with WEDU and producing the event series, ‘Jewishness, Activism and Finding Belonging: The Post-Holocaust Diaspora and Intersections with Marginalized Communities.’

David Berliner is based in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and puppy and is a Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development at Salesforce. He became involved with 3GNY, and in WEDU, through his sister Lauren and recently joined the board of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

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3GNY Stories Live: WEDU Wednesdays take place Wednesdays at 8:00 pm ET. In this virtual series, grandchildren of Holocaust survivors share their family stories with us. You'll also learn more about our educational initiative, WEDU, which engages 3Gs to learn and share their family stories in school classrooms. View past WEDU Wednesday presentations on our YouTube channel. If you know educators looking to bring our speakers into their classrooms, please contact WEDUscheduling@3gnewyork.org.

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3GNY Stories Live: WEDU Wednesday Featuring Lauren Engelman and David Berliner

Loving Lillian: Lillian Berliner’s Extraordinary Story of Survival and Resilience