University Hillel announces Holocaust Education Week activities

9:09 a.m., April 8, 2015--University of Delaware Hillel has announced that Holocaust Education Week will be marked April 12-17 with a series of activities.

The week will open with a free trip to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, April 12.

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A commemorative flag display featuring 1,200 banner bearing different colors will be held beginning at noon, Monday, April 13, on the University’s North Green. Each color represents a population targeted in the Holocaust. A dinner and discussion on “70 Years Later: Where Do We Go From Here?” will be held at 7 p.m. at Hillel, 47 W. Delaware Ave.

The movie Paragraph 175 will be shown at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 14, in 117 Gore Hall, to be followed by a discussion. The film chronicles the lives of members of the LGBT community who were persecuted by the Nazis. The screening is co-sponsored by Haven.

The Mitzvah Project play and discussion will be held at 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 15, in 100 Kirkbride Hall. The play features Roger Grunwald, the child of a Holocaust survivor, who tells the story of Christoph Rosenberg, a German who was half-Jewish. The discussion will explore topics such as assimilation intermarriage, identity and conversion. There will be a short Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, memorial service.

On Thursday, April 16, a “6 for 6” name reading will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the North Green. The six-hour reading will honor the six million Jews who lost their lives in the Holocaust.

Holocaust Education Week will close with two activities on Friday, April 17. A lunch and learn program with Isaac Dostis, a Romaniote Jew, will be held at 12:30 p.m. at Hillel. Dostis will speak about how the Holocaust affected his community in Greece. Hero Shabbat will be held at Hillel in the evening, with services at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7. Speaking will be two members of the Israeli Defense Forces.

For details, see the website.