Powerful messages about the enduring human spirit overcoming unthinkable challenges provided the perfect backdrop for the theme of the Mavericks’ third-annual Women’s Symposium.
Strength in sisterhood.
Experiences from a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor and a Native American who suffered through horrific boarding-school abuse had some 250 attendees at Monday’s event at the Dallas Arboretum riveted to the history that they were hearing – along with providing hope for how to keep it from ever happening again.
Numerous high-profile women from the world of television, philanthropy and business took part in panel discussions.
The highlight came as Mavericks’ CEO Cynt Marshall moderated a conversation with Magie Furst, who was torn from her home in Germany at the start of World War II as a frightened 10-year-old and saw the realities of concentration camps; and Dora Brought Plenty, who lived in a boarding school that tortured kids mentally and physically.