The Monroe Community College's Holocaust Genocide Studies Project (HGSP) will host its annual Righteous Among Us Program on Monday, Dec. 2 at 7:00 p.m. at Temple B'rith Kodesh, Ben Goldstein Chapel, 2131 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, N.Y. MCC faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend.
Historian Severin Hochberg, Ph.D., of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies will serve as keynote speaker for the program and will present "The Fort Ontario Incident and American Immigrants/Rescue Policy." Hochberg will specifically address the rescue of nearly 1000 Jews in Oswego, N.Y. during the Nazi Holocaust.
Hochberg will also be interviewed on WXXI's 1370 Connection on Dec. 3 (1370 AM).
The Righteous Among Us Program honors individuals who risked their lives so that others might live. One of the most moving programs the HGSP offers, this gathering includes both rescuers and individuals who survived the Nazi genocide.
Free parking is available; please use the entrance at the back of the Temple. For more information, please contact Valerie Keller, Liberal Arts, at ext. 3321.
Rosanna Condello
Holocaust Genocide Studies Project
11/22/2002 |