RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Dr. George Brent was a Holocaust survivor and a veteran of the United States Air Force; and
WHEREAS, The son of a pharmacist, Dr. George Brent was born in 1929 in Tesco, an area of Czechoslovakia that was later turned over to Hungary; and
WHEREAS, In May of 1944, Dr. George Brent's family was forced into the ghetto and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp; and
WHEREAS, As the Russian army advanced, Dr. George Brent and his fellow prisoners were sent on a death march from Auschwitz and then on a coal train to Mauthausen - Ebensee concentration camp in Austria; and
WHEREAS, One of General George Patton's tank commanders described what he encountered at Ebensee as "thousands of skeleton-like figures who were skin and bones, the living laying side by side, often times indistinguishable, from the dead"; and
WHEREAS, The United States Army set up a field hospital and called for additional medical assistance to care for the liberated prisoners, one of whom was Dr. George Brent; and
WHEREAS, Following the war, Dr. George Brent headed to the United States and ultimately settled in Chicago; and
WHEREAS, In 1950 Dr. George Brent joined the United States Air Force and went on to graduate from dental school at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and
WHEREAS, After graduation, Dr. George Brent taught prosthodontics and was eventually named an associate professor while in private practice for 50 years; and
WHEREAS, Dr. George Brent resides in Wilmette with his wife, Nancy; and
WHEREAS, Dr. George Brent is truly an example of what journalist Tom Brokaw called "Our Greatest Generation;" and
WHEREAS, Dr. George Brent was honored at a special celebration held on the eve of Veteran's Day at Wintrust's Grand Banking Hall, 231 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois; and
WHEREAS, Dr. George Brent is exceedingly worthy of our highest admiration and esteem; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the Mayor and the members of the Chicago City Coun...
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