Galloway, N.J. — Holocaust survivor Frances “Fran” Malkin will discuss her family’s experience in Poland during World War II at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24 at Stockton University.

Malkin was born in Sokal, Poland, which is now a part of Ukraine, in 1938. Following the occupation of the city by the Germans in 1942, Fran, her mother and other members of her family escaped the Sokal ghetto and went into hiding. Francisca Halamajowa, a Polish-Catholic woman, and her daughter Helena hid 16 Jews, including Malkin and her family, on their farm until the area was liberated by the Soviet Army in 1944.

After the Holocaust, Malkin immigrated to the United States in 1949. Of the estimated 6,000 Jews living in Sokal before the war, it is believed that only 30 survived the Holocaust. In 2007, filmmaker Judy Maltz developed a film about Fran and her family’s experiences titled “No. 4 Street of Our Lady.”

The “Miracle Child: A Conversation with Holocaust Survivor Frances Malkin” will be held in the L-112 classroom. It is sponsored by Stockton’s Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center, the Board of Jewish Education of Atlantic and Cape May Counties, the Jewish Federation of Atlantic and Cape May Counties and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education. New Jersey educators can earn 2.0 professional development hours.

The talk is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required by calling the Holocaust Center at 609-652-4699 or by emailing the center’s director Irvin Moreno-Rodriguez at Irvin.moreno-rodriguez@stockton.edu.