[Jewish] Fwd: UMass Holocaust Memorial Week Events, Please pass on!

[amd00 at hampshire.edu]

Hi everyone,

I hope your Pesach is going well. Once again it is that time in the week when a 
desperate E-mail is sent out in hopes someone will volunteer to cook Shabbat 
dinner. If you are interested please contact me at x5155 or 
adavid at hampshire.edu. 

At the end of this E-mail is a list of events that are happening at UMASS for 
Holocaust Memorial Week...

Thank you,
Alizah 


holocaust memorial week events - complete listing
NEVER FORGET:
Memorializing the Holocaust Through Music, Theatre, Film, and the Visual
Arts

Week - long events:
Flag Display on Campus Pond Lawn 
Litany of Martyrs (Reading of names) on the Campus Center Concourse


Holocaust Commemoration at Hatikvah Holocaust Center
10-12noon, Holocaust Center in Longmeadow
Meet with a Holocaust survivor.  
Carpools from Amherst and Northampton available.
For info: Rachel at 584-3911.
Sponsored by GAP; Jewish Graduate Students, Older Undergrads and 
Young Professionals.

Flag Planting
Sunday, April 27, 12:30pm, Campus Pond
Help plant 2,061 flags.  Each one represents 5,000 of the 12 million Jews,
Soviet prisoners of war, Polish citizens, Gypsies, disabled  persons,
Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals who perished in Nazi 
concentration
camps.

FILM: Paragraph 175
Sunday, April 27, 7pm, Campus Center Rm 803
Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, this film documents the
persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany.  Seven of the nine 
remaining
survivors share their incredible stories.

THEATRE: "Dear Esther"
Monday, April 28, 7pm, Campus Center Aud. Free.
This play, written by Richard Rashke, is based on the amazing true story 
of
Holocaust survivor Esther Temer Raab, grandmother to UMass freshman 
Stefanie
Raab.  The play tells Esther's story of escape from a Nazi death camp in
Poland and her continued survival in hiding during the remainder of the 
war.
Today she lives in the U.S. with her extensive family.

Holocaust Memorial Service & Concert with Laura Wetzler
Tuesday, April 29, 7pm, Massachusetts Rm/Mullins Center
A student-led memorial service followed by songs from lost Sephardic 
and
Ashkenazi communities celbrating the vitality of pre-war Jewish life.

Holocaust Survivor Max Michelson
Wednesday, April 30, 5pm, Campus Center 101
Survivor and author of "City of Life", City of Death: Memories and
Riga will
discuss his life in Latvia prior to WWII and experiences as a Holocaust
victim and survivor.

Holocaust Memorial Week Sponsors and Grants: UMass Hillel, UMass 
Jewish
Student Union, UMass Stonewall Center, UMass Office of Jewish Affairs, 
UMass
Theater Department, Amherst College Hillel, Mount Holyoke Jewish 
Student
Union, Smith College Hillel, Five College Qeshet for Queer and 
Questioning
Jews, KOACH-Conservative Judaism College Program, The Five College 
Lecture
Fund, UMass Arts Council Mini Grant, and Hillel’s Darmstaedter 
Holocaust
Education Program Grant. A very special thanks to the Raab family for 
their
generous donation in honor of Esther Raab, beloved mother and 
grandmother.