All were silent in the gymnasium at San Francisco’s all-girls Mercy High School while renowned violinist Hannah Tarley tuned her...

San Francisco's Mercy High School, in partnership with The Helen and Joe Farkas Center for the Study of the Holocaust in Catholic...

...Today, I must pick up Helen Farkas to take her to Mercy High School in San Francisco, where she will talk about her experiences in the...

Helen Farkas, an Auschwitz survivor who spent more than four decades serving as a living witness to the traumas of the Holocaust by...

As a young woman struggling to survive the horrors of Auschwitz, Helen Farkas made a vow: If she lived, she would tell her story to the...

Jim McGarry remembers the first time he heard a Holocaust survivor speak. It was in 1992 at a training session for local educators...

Lenci Farkas didn’t sleep well the night before she was to be honored at San Francisco’s Mercy High School. When the 93-year-old faced...

Gloria Lyon, 84, faced her audience and held up her arm, revealing a faded numeric tattoo. Showing that somber marking from Auschwitz...

A hush fell over the auditorium as Holocaust survivor Zdena Berger took the stage. As the diminutive 86-year-old read aloud from two...