Roslyn Franken
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- Roslyn Franken was born in Montreal, Canada to a Dutch-born Holocaust survivor mother who survived 11 concentration camps including three trips to the gas chambers at Auschwitz and the death march in Czechoslovakia. After the war her mother married Roslyn’s father, a Dutch-Indonesian Jew who survived the atomic bomb as a prisoner of war in Japan. When diagnosed with cancer at 29, Roslyn turned to her parents’ strength and positivity as inspiration in her fight to beat cancer and overcome many other life obstacles. She is an author and public speaker dedicated to inspiring people with hope and courage for creating positive and meaningful change in their lives and the world around them. Roslyn has a Masters degree in Applied Human Sciences specialized in Human Systems Intervention from Concordia University in Montreal and a certification in Organizational Psychology from the Professional School of Psychology in Sacramento, California. She wrote a book about her parents’ lives and their positive influence on her as the daughter of these two remarkable WWII survivors called Meant to Be: A True Story of Might, Miracles and Triumph of the Human Spirit. See www.RoslynFranken.com. Her book is being made into a movie currently in development.
- Participation on Humanity Rising
See Also
HR!Day235 - Reflections of Second Generation Children of Holocaust Survivors Reflections of Second Generation Children of Holocaust Survivors
