{"id":130,"date":"2018-09-06T21:48:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T21:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/martin-springer\/?page_id=130"},"modified":"2023-08-16T14:09:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T21:09:24","slug":"founders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/martin-springer\/about-the-institute\/founders\/","title":{"rendered":"Founders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Founders<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20 size-uncropped-small\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/214\/2018\/09\/about_470px-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/214\/2018\/09\/about_470px-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/214\/2018\/09\/about_470px.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ralph and Doris Martin founded The Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University in 2000 to raise awareness about the history and legacy of the Holocaust and attend to today\u2019s crises, conflicts, and injustices. Doris Martin (n\u00e9e Szpringer) lived as a child in Bedzin, Poland, and survived the Holocaust as an adolescent in a Nazi labor camp for women, administered by the infamous Gross-Rosen camp.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:420,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Born in December 1926, Doris passed away in her California home on August 3, 2022. Twelve years old when the Nazis invaded her hometown Bedzin, she was deported to Auschwitz and survived Ludwigsdorf, a women\u2019s labor camp. Miraculously, all members of her family survived and reunited after the war. Arriving in the United States in 1950, she later married Ralph Martin. They made Flagstaff their home for many years and founded the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University and a smaller center for Conflict Studies at Ben Gurion University, Israel.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:420,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Doris\u2019 family story is told in her memoir, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kiss-Every-Step-Survivors-Holocaust\/dp\/1439256063\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Kiss Every Step<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:420,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\">We are forever grateful for Doris untiring efforts to educate young people about the Holocaust, and for both Ralph and Doris to create an institute with a mandate for public education and research.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"x_eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/214\/2018\/09\/kiss-every-step-150x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founders Ralph and Doris Martin founded The Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University in 2000 to raise awareness about the history and legacy of the Holocaust and attend to today\u2019s crises, conflicts, and injustices. 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