27/04/2017
Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project (HGHRP) student leaders will host the Monroe Community College’s 27th annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration. Part of the Week of Remembrance and Compassion, this year’s event focuses on both the lessons of the Holocaust and Buddhism to promote understanding and inclusiveness. Yom HaShoah, the international day of remembrance, commemorates the lives and heroism of the Jewish people who lost their lives in the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945.
WHERE: Monroe Community College, R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, 1000 East Henrietta Road, Rochester. Parking available in lots M1 and N.
WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Thursday, April 27. From 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m local Holocaust survivors will share their stories; at 2 p.m., a Tibetan Lama will lead an open discussion with students and faculty.
DETAILS: Following an opening ceremony, students, faculty and college leaders will light candles and call out Holocaust survivor names in the quieted campus center throughout the day.
Local Holocaust survivors Warren Heilbronner, Jacque Trama and Carl Wetzstein will give their testimonies before students and faculty.
Venerable Tenzin Choesang, director of Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, N.Y., a Tibetan Lama, will lead an open discussion with students and faculty on “Lovingkindness and Compassion and the Four Immeasurables.”
This event is free and open to the public.
