RENO - Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the nation's annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. The remembrance theme designated by the museum for 2014 is Confronting the Holocaust: American Responses, and events are planned throughout the country to honor the observance.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Nevada, Reno in partnership with the University's Interfaith Students Club will present a Day of Remembrance, Monday, April 7 on the University of Nevada, Reno campus. The event will feature guest speakers who have experienced genocide and who possess knowledge and insights about violence occurring worldwide today.
The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available on the University campus in front of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.
"When we remember the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides around the world, we reflect on how we might respond to warning signs of genocide today," said Shera Alberti-Annunzio, M.Ed., the University's OLLI liaison and assistant director of professional development for Extended Studies. "Our choices in response to hatred truly can change lives, while fulfilling the promise of 'never again'."
Speakers will include Emily Hobson, Ph.D., assistant professor, Holocaust, Genocide and Peace Studies, Department of History and Gender, Race and Identity Program, at the University of Nevada, Reno; Lydia Lebovic, Auschwitz Survivor; April Voytko Kempler and Paul Kempler, memoirist/daughter-in-law and son of Joseph Kempler, Holocaust Survivor; Ric Thompson, son of Vic Thompson, World War II Veteran; Rajan Zed, M.S., MBA, president, Universal Society of Hinduism and Interfaith Ambassador, Nevada Clergy Association; Daniel Sanchez, former president, Interfaith Students Club, University of Nevada, Reno; and event host, Fred Holman, vice provost for Extended Studies, University of Nevada, Reno
For more about the Day of Remembrance event, visit the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute website at http://www.olli.unr.edu or call Shera Alberti-Annunzio at the University of Nevada, Reno, (775) 784-4046.
For more about the national Days of Remembrance week held April 27-May 4, 2014, and this year's theme, visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum website at http://www.ushmm.org/remember/days-of-remembrance.
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