Manfred Swarsensky receiving honorary degree

Photographer

Schulz, Gary

Date

• ca. 1979

Summary

• Rabbi Manfred E. Swarsensky (right), of Beth El Temple, accompanied by Hebrew and Semitic Studies professor Menahem Monsoor at the 1979 ceremony awarding Swarsensky an honorary degree. A vocal critic of the Nazi regime, Swarsensky was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp before being offered his freedom in 1938 on the condition he leave Germany.