Dr. Nancy Sommers, a native of Terre Haute and former member of United Hebrew Congregation, will be keynote speaker at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 5, for Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) in the UHC sanctuary.
Her subject will be “My Mother’s Story — Creating Light from Darkness and Optimism out of Tragedy”. Dr. Sommers’s mother is Louise Levite Sommers, a Holocaust survivor and resident of Terre Haute.
Dr. Sommers is a prize-winning writer and internationally-recognized leader in the field of writing studies.
She directed the Harvard College Writing Program for 20 years and now teaches in the Harvard Graduate School of Education.