ELDRED — Ellen Dubie, program administrator of the Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program at the University at Buffalo and second-generation Holocaust survivor, will visit the Eldred World War II museum Sunday, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Dubie will speak at 1:30 p.m. in Mitchell Paige Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Dubie’s speech will focus on her father’s story. Heinz Stephen Lewy was born in Berlin in 1925, and grew up in the Auerbach Orphanage where he lived through Kristallnacht, hiding in the orphanage’s synagogue. Lewy was then sent on a kindertransport to France in 1939, living in both occupied and unoccupied zones. In 1942, he was able to secure passage to the United States and in 1943 he was drafted into the U.S. Army. After the war Lewy returned to the U.S.

Dubie was born in Boston and moved to Buffalo nine years ago. She is a former Holocaust Resource Center board member. Lewy, who passed away in 2021, was an active speaker in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Western New York for several years.