The Holocaust Genocide Studies Project at MCC will host its 18th annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration next Tuesday, April 29 in the Flynn Campus Center to honor victims and survivors of the Holocaust.
Entitled “Remember Me,” the commemoration will begin with an opening ceremony in the Flynn Campus Center Atrium at 9:30 am. The college community is invited to take a moment to view photos and read testimonials of local Holocaust Survivors, light a candle in remembrance and meditate on the names of victims as they are read by students, faculty and community leaders. Holocaust Survivors Otto Berliner, Warren Heilbronner and Sam Rind will give their personal testimonies in the Flynn Campus Center Forum (3-130) at 10 am, 11:30 am and 1 pm. A closing tribute will be held in the Forum at 3:30 pm.
Established in 1959, Yom HaShoah is the international day of remembrance of the over 6 million Jews who were murdered during World War II. During the Holocaust, thousands of Roma and Sinti (ethnic gypsies), Soviet prisoners of war, slave laborers, gay men, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled and political opponents were also murdered.
Rosanna Condello
College and Community Relations
04/24/2008
Attachments:
 yomhashoa flyer2.pdf
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