Holocaust survivor Rachel Hayun visited Baruch College on Nov. 10 to speak about her experiences in Libya during the Holocaust.
Upward of 120 students piled into room 4-125 in the Newman Vertical Campus to listen to the 83-year-old survivor recount harrowing stories of life in a Tunisian labor camp.
Hayun was born in Benghazi, the capital of Libya, in 1939. Her first language was Italian, the official language of Libya from the time of the Italian invasion in 1911 until Libya’s independence in 1951.
Hayun describes the Benghazi of her early childhood as a “beautiful” city where the Jewish and Arab populations coexisted peacefully….
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