Irene Zisblatt, a Holocaust survivor, is scheduled to speak in the Richlands area. You are invited to attend her presentation on Sunday, October 25, at 7:00 p.m., at Cedar Bluff Community Church (located across from K-Mart, Claypool Hill Mall).

Irene witnessed and experienced unspeakable cruelty and brutality. She lost her whole family to the gas chambers. She was a "guinea pig" for Dr. Josef Mengele who performed inhumane experiments on her. The last mementos of her family were four diamonds given to her by her mother. She had to keep swallowing the diamonds over and over so they wouldn't be confiscated. It took Irene over fifty years to get over her fear and shame before she could tell the world of the atrocities she had seen and experienced. Her book The Fifth Diamond, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, was co-written with Tazewell High School teacher Gail Webb.