Each year Hillel runs a Holocaust Remembrance Week dedicated to creating awareness to past and present genocides world wide. The focus changes to a new region of the world every year. Events typically include a speaker from the affected region, a film on that region, a speech from a Holocaust survivor, and a prevention on the Psychology of the Holocaust.

Past years have looked at areas such as Rwanda, Darfur, and China.

This year Hillel is putting on three educational, inspirational, and unique events for Holocaust Remembrance Week. Our Holocaust Remembrance Week will be celebrated the week of April 20. Look out for lots of advertising around campus closer to the week of the events. Check out who we have coming to campus and what we have going on:

April 20: Lane Montgomery will be speaking. She is a photographer and a humanitarian who has dedicated her life to raising awareness of genocide. She is the author of "Never Again, Again, Again...". (Taylor 404, 7pm)

April 21: Paperclips, a documentary surrounding the project of children from a Tennessee middle school to try to collect 6 million paper clips representing the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, will be shown followed by a discussion. (Taylor 404, 5 pm)

 April 23: Holocaust survivor, Jay Ipson, will be coming to campus to speak on his experience. Mr. Ipson is also the founder and executive director of the Richmond Holocaust Museum. (Festival Ballroom A, 7 pm)

*Check back for more details including possibly a memorial walk*