{"id":11034,"date":"2015-10-09T11:19:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T16:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=11034"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:36:40","slug":"opening-the-gates-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2015\/10\/09\/opening-the-gates-of-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening the Gates of Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>A Liberator and Survivor of the Nazi Concentration Camps  Speak on the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/files\/2015\/10\/Commonalities-Gates-of-Hell-flyer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2015\/10\/Commonalities-Gates-of-Hell-flyer-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Commonalities - Gates of Hell flyer\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2015\/10\/Commonalities-Gates-of-Hell-flyer-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2015\/10\/Commonalities-Gates-of-Hell-flyer-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=center><strong>Thursday, October 22, 2015 \u2022 2:30 p.m.<br \/>\nKlarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please join us for an opportunity to learn from Mr. John Coath and Mr. Steen Metz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Coath<\/strong> is a decorated World War II veteran and liberator of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. He will relate his wartime experiences and will recount his deeply etched memories of the appalling, unimaginable conditions he encountered in liberating the dehumanized survivors of one of the most terrible Nazi camps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Metz <\/strong>is a Danish child survivor who was a prisoner in the infamous Theresienstadt ghetto\/concentration camp in the former Czechoslovakia. He will share his experiences as a young child in this \u201cGateway to Auschwitz\u201d, the recollections of his bittersweet liberation and the fate of Danish Jewry during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Question &#038; Answer session to follow<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Department of History and the University Libraries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Liberator and Survivor of the Nazi Concentration Camps  Speak on the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation<br \/>\nThursday, October 22, 2015 \u2022 2:30 p.m.<br \/>\nKlarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":11035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[5013],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11034"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11043,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034\/revisions\/11043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}