On Tuesday, April 13th, the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project will host its 20th Anniversary Yom HaShoah Commemoration -- celebrating two decades of education, commemoration, and advocacy at MCC. Yom HaShoah, an international day of remembrance, commemorates the lives and heroism of the Jewish people who lost their lives in the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945.
Having impacted the lives of over 1,500 students and many more in our community through academic and co-curricular programming, the Project looks forward to welcoming back its alumni and supporters to share its success and reflect on the ways in which students continue to be transformed into human rights advocates. We invite the college community to share in the unique experience by pausing to remember those who were murdered during the Holocaust, lighting a candle to honor victims, survivors and heroes, and hearing the testimony of those who survived.
20th Anniversary Yom HaShoah Commemoration Schedule
Opening ceremony
9:30 to 10:00 am, Flynn Campus Center Atrium
Calling of the Names, Candle Lighting, and the photographic essay exhibit, “I Told You, Now You Tell the World”
10:00 am to 2:00 pm, Flynn Campus Center Atrium
* Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Hildegard Herz, who witnessed the Nuremburg Rallies and 1938’s Kristallnacht during the lead-up to the Holocaust
10:00 am, Flynn Campus Center Forum (3-130)
* Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Warren Heilbronner, whose family encountered and overcame numerous obstacles in its attempt to escape the Holocaust
11:30 am, Flynn Campus Center Forum (3-130)
* Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Lea Malek, a Hungarian survivor who was part of Adolf Eichmann’s “Blood for Goods” attempt to exchange Jewish prisoners with the Allies
1pm, Flynn Campus Center Forum (3-130)
Transformation through Holocaust Education
with keynote speaker Marcia Sachs Littell, Ph.D., professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Littell will talk about her personal journey as a student of the Holocaust who became a renowned scholar and human rights advocate.
7:30 pm, MCC Theatre (Bldg. 4)
TICKET REQUIRED – free to MCC students, faculty, and staff with ID; $7 general public. Tickets available at "http://www.monroecctickets.com" or the Flynn Campus Center Service Desk.
Find the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project on Facebook: “MCC Remembers the Holocaust: 20 Years of Transformation.”
* Professors: If one of your classes coincides with one of the survivor presentations listed above, we invite you to attend with your students. Please contact Linda Ingraham <mailto:lingraham@monroecc.edu> to reserve space today for your class to hear one of these speakers. Speakers will begin half an hour after the class period begins, allowing you and your students time in which to light a memorial candle in the Flynn Campus Center Atrium, browse the Project’s photographic essay exhibit, “I Told You, Now You Tell the World,” and listen to the “Calling of the Names.”
Regina Fabbro
English/Philosophy
04/07/2010 |