CCU remembers Holocaust, victims of genocides
Approximately 50 people -- students, faculty, staff and community members – honored victims of genocides by participating in CCU's first Holocaust Memorial Walk on April 12, Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah).The silent walk, from The Commons to the CINO Grille, was organized by economics professor Yoav Wachsman and sponsored by CCU's Jackson Center for Ethics and Values. The marchers wore black armbands provided for the occasion by Helaine Cohn, program coordinator in the Wall College, and visual arts professor Steven Bleicher.
Some of the walkers brought along personal mementos relating to the Nazi genocide. Associate Provost Barbara Buckner shared a vintage family photograph of a group of her European ancestors, some of whom were murdered in the early 1940s when the Nazis occupied Lithuania.
Other recent CCU events that commemorated the Holocaust included a screening of the 2006 film "The Pianist." There was also an exhibit of posters, media and books in Kimbel Library, organized by librarian John Watts and English professor Jill Sessoms as part of her class "Representations of the Holocaust."
