Eighty-eight year old Dr. Henry Oertelt is a Holocaust survivor, speaker, and the author of An Unbroken Chain: My Journey Through The Nazi Holocaust.

Dr. Oertelt participated in Stephen Spielberg’s University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education in Los Angeles, California. His story was one of the nearly 52,000 videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses and was highlighted as one of the 5 survivors in the online exhibit, Surviving Auschwitz: 5 Personal Journeys.

Oertelt was liberated by General Patton’s Third Army during the Flossenburg Death March in April, 1945. He arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1949 and has spent 40 years lecturing about his experiences and the importance of tolerance, political involvement, and confronting hatred. Oertelt is a member of the Jewish Community Relations Council’s (JCRC) Holocaust Education Commission, a recipient of JCRC’s “Volunteer of the Year” award, as well as recipient of the distinguished “Eleven Who Care” honor from KARE 11-TV in Minnesota.

Dr. Oertelt has been speaking to schools, churches and other organizations for forty years about his story. He is the recipient of three honorary degrees from St. Cloud State University, South West State University, and St. Olaf College in Minnesota.

Henry is involved in the process and contributing to the film and its marketing. He currently contributes to our movie blog at www.anunbrokenchainthemovie.blogspot.com

Henry’s personal motto: If you absolutely have to hate, hate HATE

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