Temple Jacob in Hancock is sponsoring an appearence by Holocaust survivor Irene Miller, who will speak at 6 p.m. Tuesday April 15, in the auditorium at Houghton High School Her presentation is free and open to the public.

Miller is author of Into No Man’s Land: A Historical Memoir, which tells the story of her family trying to escape the horrors of the Holocaust only to wind up in a frozen field in no man’s land, then in a Siberian labor camp, and finally starving in an impoverished village in Uzbekistan. The book is a story of courage, perseverance, and the power of the human spirit.

Miller is a retired healthcare executive who has held positions as a hospital administrator, planner, developer, and administrator of the first federally qualified HMO in Michigan, Group Health Plan of Southeastern Michigan.

She was director of mental health for Livingston County, director of the psychiatric division at Detroit Osteopathic Hospital and director of treatment centers for drug-addicted and dual-diagnosed women and their children at the Detroit Medical Center. For a year she served in Washington DC on an advisory committee for issues related to drug addiction in women and children. For two years she was a public school teacher in Israel.

Worldwide, fewer than 220,000 Holocaust survivors are still alive. The vast majority (95%) are child survivors born between 1928 and 1946.