Leading Authority on American Indian and Alaska Native Health Spero Manson Receives 2021 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award
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ATLANTA, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Spero M. Manson, PhD, a leading authority with respect to American Indian and Alaska Native health, today was awarded the 2021 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award. Manson is a distinguished professor and the Colorado Trust Chair in American Indian Health at the Colorado School of Public Health, at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus where he directs the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health.
This year s award was presented virtually to Manson at the annual meeting of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency, SOPHE held their annual conference virtually. The CDC Foundation with the James F. and Sarah T. Fries Foundation honored Manson for his outstanding contributions to America
Martha, is being released today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The National Film Board film focuses on Katz, an Auschwitz survivor who moved to Winnipeg after the Second World War.
She was 14 when her family was taken from a village in Czechoslovakia and shipped to the death camp. Two of her siblings and her mother died in the gas chambers and her father died when the camp was liberated. She and four siblings survived.
Schubert s grandfather also survived a concentration camp, and would tell him stories when he was younger, but Katz remained more tight-lipped, he said.
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Filmmaker Daniel Schubert, left, tells the story of his grandmother, who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, in his new documentary Martha.
Ask director Daniel Schubert about the impetus for his new film, and he flashes back to the violent 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Va., with its Neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Three-and-a-half years later, anti-Semitic attire spotted on rioters in the attack on the U.S. Capitol offered yet more proof to Schubert that his film was needed more than ever.