Join the Elon Community in remembrance and recognition of the Holocaust
Monday, April 20, 12:15 – 1:15 p.m., Truitt Center:
Lunch ‘n Learn with German refugee, Eric Boehm, age 92. He will speak on “Life as a Jew in Germany under the Nazi regime.” Lunch provided free of charge. Reservations required to nluberoff@elon.edu. Limited to 12 people.
Tuesday, April 21, College Coffee:
Visit the Elon Hillel table at College Coffee on Tuesday. Students will be distributing colored ribbons in memory of the groups put to death during the Nazi era: Jehovah’s Witnesses, People of Color, Homosexuals, Handicapped & Disabled People, Gypsies, Political Dissidents, and Jews.
Wednesday, April 22, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.:
Names Reading Ceremony: Elon students, faculty, & staff will read aloud the names of Holocaust victims from a podium outside Moseley. PLEASE SIGN UP AND ADD YOUR VOICE. Reading times are 15 minutes per person. Please email agross@elon.edu to sign up for ANY time slot.
Thursday, April 23, 7:30 p.m., Isabella Cannon Room in the Center for the Arts:
Talk by Holocaust survivor, Shelly Weiner, preceded by short performance of “I Never Saw Another Butterfly,” based on poems by children held in the Nazi Terezin Concentration Camp. Music Performed by faculty members, Polly Butler-Cornelius (soprano) and Jinny Whittaker (saxophone), Free of charge.
Thursday evening, April 23: Luminaries set up around campus as a reminder- NEVER Again: What You Do Matters.
Friday, April 24, 6:30 p.m., Shabbat in Chapel Hill:
Shabbat Dinner at the home of Hillel Campus Director, Nancy Luberoff, memorial candle lit in memory of those who perished during the Holocaust. Hang out in downtown Chapel Hill afterwards. Reservations required to nluberoff@elon.edu. Limited to 20 people. Meet van at Boney Fountain at 5:30 pm.
Saturday, April 25, 9 p.m., Young Commons:
Showing of the movie, Defiance (2008), starring Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, and Liev Schreiber. Three ferociously committed actors fill the roles of the Bielski brothers, Jewish partisans who escaped into the forests of Eastern Europe during the Second World War. The three performers give life to director Edward Zwick’s account of this little-known chapter of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust.
For more information, contact
AMANDA GROSS, Coordinator of Holocaust Remembrance Week
agross@elon.edu