Holocaust Awareness Week

Please join the Holocaust Awareness Institute at DU’s Center for Judaic Studies and many community organizations as we commemorate the lives lost in the Holocaust.

The Holocaust Survivors’ Memorial from Generation to Generation
Presented by the Holocaust Awareness Institute and the children and grandchildren of survivors of the Shoah Celebrating Life – Past, Present and Future
Thursday, April 28, 2008 at 7 p.m.
Robert E. Loup JCC
Shwayder Theatre
350 S. Dahlia Street, Denver
Free and open to the public.

Anti-Defamation League’s 27th Annual Governors’ Holocaust Remembrance Program
Featuring Maria Reyes, author of the Freedom Writers Diary
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 6 p.m.
Reservations are required. Please call 303.830.7177 ext 214 or email denver@adl.org

Annual Student Holocaust Memorial at Babi Yar Park
Presented by the Mizel Museum
Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 11 a.m.
Babi Yar Park
Havana Street and Parker Road, Denver
For details visit, www.mizelmuseum.org or call 303.394.9993.

University of Colorado’s Holocaust in Contemporary Bioethics Program
The Moral Status of Nazi Medicine
Friday, May 2, 2008 at Noon
University of Colorado-Denver
Anschutz Medical Campus, Education 2 North Bldg, Room 1102
13120 East 19th Avenue, Aurora

Presentation by Dr. Donald W. Seldin, expert witness in the Dachau Trials in 1947 and past Commissioner for the National Commission for Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical & Behavioral Research. Followed by a panel discussion that will include the Emil & Eva Hecht Chair in Judaic Studies and associate professor of Philosophy, Sarah Pessin. For more information, visit www.coloradobioethics.org

Taking A Stand: Youth Against Genocide
Sponsored by the Colorado Coalition for Genocide Awareness and Action
Sunday, May 4, 2008
University of Denver
Driscoll Student Center
2050 E. Evans Avenue, Denver

This state-wide high school and college student conference will feature notable local, national and international speakers in a plenary session and panel discussions including CJS director and associate professor of History at the University of Denver, David Shneer. Registration information and additional details can be found at www.ccgaa.org

The Holocaust Awareness Institute is also working with DU student organizations, NeverAgain! and Hillel to present an array of programing on DU’s campus. This year’s theme Hate Kills will focus on the impact our individual thoughts, beliefs and actions can have on people around the world who are experiencing the effects of genocide, hatred, discrimination and bigotry. Complete details of the week’s events can be found at www.du.edu/orgs/neveragain/index2.html

The following articles by associated faculty from the Center for Judaic Studies were published in the commemorative brochure for the recent Colorado Symphony Orchestra’s Hope From Despair Festival which presented works written by composers whose lives were impacted by the Holocaust.

Hazarding Hope:A Philosophical Reflection on Hope’s Possibility by Dr. Janet Rumfelt

Fragments of Humanity: Holocaust Songs by Dr. Shirli Gilbert