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Jewish plight remebered during Holocaust Memorial Week

By Daily Bruin Staff

April 18, 1996 9:00 p.m.

Friday, April 19, 1996

By Patrick Marantal

Daily Bruin Staff

Throughout UCLA’s Holocaust Awareness Week, members of the
campus’ Jewish community commemorated the deaths of millions that
occurred more than 50 years ago.

From Monday to Wednesday, members of Hillel and the Jewish
Student Union sponsored programs throughout campus to educate the
community about the Holocaust.

"The programs that were here on campus were very powerful and
meaningful," said Joe Levin, president of the Jewish Student Union.
"It is very important that people never forget and the world learns
from this tragedy so that eleven million people don’t die in
vain."

Organizers have been planning the week’s events for months.

"It became very important to me to carry on the memories and the
education as far as what happened on campus," said Ben Goff, the
event’s program coordinator who also oversaw similar events at UC
Santa Barbara.

Monday evening, a faculty panel consisting of professors Arnold
Band, Janet Hadda and David Myers related stories "of how the
Holocaust shaped their lives," Levin said. After the discussion,
organizers held a viewing of "Europa Europa," a film depicting the
life of a young Jewish boy in hiding from the German Nazis during
World War II.

Tuesday, the campus community celebrated Holocaust Remembrance
Day, which marked the 53-year commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising. Holocaust survivor Si Frumkin recalled his time at the
Dachau extermination camp, which was followed by an evening
candlelight vigil.

A daily event throughout the week was the memorial name reading
of Holocaust victims in the Sculpture Gardens, Westwood Plaza and
the Court of Sciences.

A small gathering concluded the week’s events with a reading
Wednesday.

Organizers believed that the programs were effective in
educating the campus community and drawing student’s attention to
the Holocaust.

"It was very important to us to make this Holocaust Awareness
Week. We say ‘awareness’ not only for the Jewish community but also
the campus community," Levin said. "I was very pleased to see
members of the greater UCLA community take advantage of this
program."

See related pages:

USHMM Index of sites

National Art and Writing Contest about the Holocaust

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