CUMMING — A local library is playing host to a special presentation Sunday from someone who is part of a shrinking living member of history.

The Cumming Library will welcome George Rishfeld, a Holocaust survivor, at 2 p.m. in partnership with Atlanta’s William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.

Rishfeld’s “Memories of the Holocaust” presentation is part of the library’s One World Forsyth cultural series and will include an overview of the Holocaust, as well as stories, personal accounts and family photos.

Born as Jureck in Warsaw, Poland, on April 26, 1939, Rishfeld was the only child of Richard and Lucille Rishfeld, who owned a fur business.

Just five months later, Nazi forces invaded Warsaw, and his family fled to the city of Vilna in Lithuania. But Nazi forces soon occupied Vilna, too, and Rishfeld’s family was forced to live in a ghetto, where food was scarce, sanitation horrible and sickness rampant.

After Nazis killed his aunt, baby cousin and grandparents, his parents decided on a plan to save him. He’ll share details of what followed, including how a local family hid him from the Nazis, and the ensuing years.

Through his speaking engagements with the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, he said he hopes to encourage people to “be kind to one another. Respect yourself, but also respect people of different religions and races.”

A brief question-and-answer session will follow Rishfeld’s presentation. For more information on this or other One World Forsyth programs, visit forsythpl.org.