Join Capital University Libraries and the Department of History for a free screening of the documentary film A Survivor’s Journey that tells the harrowing story of the late Murray Ebner’s survival of the Holocaust. Following the film there will be a short Q&A discussion with Mark Ebner, son of Murray Ebner, and Sam Nahem, the film’s director. 

Murray Ebner, was born Moinyak “Moishe” Ebner on September 20^th, 1928 in Wischniz Nowy, Poland. He and his family were sent to live in the ghetto of Bochnia after the German invasion of Poland. At the age of 13 he was rounded up by Nazi soldiers from the streets of the Krakow Ghetto and deported to the concentration camps. Ebner escaped the Nazis during the transfer of Jewish prisoners from Poland to Germany in March 1945. His parents, Herschel Tzvi and Feigel Ebner, and his brothers Avrom, Zeisha and Nuta Ebner, along with his two grandfathers and thirteen aunts and uncles all perished during the Holocaust. After staying in a displaced persons camp in Bavaria, he emigrated to the United States in 1947 where he initially lived with relatives in Springfield, Ohio before settling in Columbus. Murray Ebner served in the United States Army during the Korean War, founded a successful Columbus business, and became an active leader of the Columbus Jewish community, serving as President of Congregation Agudas Achim. In 2009 he published a memoir entitled Chosen for Reasons Unknown: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey, based on the Emmy award-winning documentary, A Survivor’s Journey, featured on PBS. Ebner felt a responsibility to tell his story, so future generations would know and never forget.