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Yom HaShoah Commemoration Today in Flynn Campus Center


MCC’s Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project is honored to invite you to join us for our 19th annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration today in the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center Atrium. Yom HaShoah (or “Holocaust Remembrance Day”) is an opportunity to hear the stories of local survivors, as well as an opportunity to reflect on our responsibility to prevent and end current atrocities. Rochester’s survivor population has dwindled over the years and the chance to hear testimony from those who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust is increasingly diminishing; soon these remarkable individuals will no longer be among us to witness and educate.  Please take a few moments to encourage your friends, students and colleagues to take advantage of what may well be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

In addition to hearing survivor testimonies, participants are e
ncouraged to light a memorial candle, browse the HGHRP’s Holocaust survivor photo essay entitled “I Told You, Now You Tell the World,” and listen to the “Calling of the Names.” This is a moving experience that is much like a tolling of the bells -- the names you will hear will be those of individuals and families who miraculously survived the Holocaust.

MCC’s 19th Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration: “The Voices that Were Silenced”

9:30-10 am   Opening Ceremony (Flynn Campus Center Atrium)
10 am- 2 pm   Calling of the Names (Flynn Campus Center Atrium)
10 am   Survivor Testimony: Sam Rind (Forum, 3-130)
11:30 am   Survivor Testimony: Helen Levinson (Forum, 3-130)
1 pm   Survivor Testimony: Lily Haber (Forum, 3-130)
2:30 pm   Closing Reception (Forum 3-130)

Thank you for your continued support.

Regina Fabbro
English/Philosophy
04/28/2009