Contact Steven H. Morrison for more information, 278-1808
Holocaust Remembrance Week
The Madison Jewish Community Council has announced a series of events
to commemorate U.S. Holocaust Remembrance Week which begins on Sunday, April 11.
Memorial to the Holocaust: A Photograph Exhibit
Madison photographer Ellen Shoshany Kaim will exhibit her collection of
photographs of Holocaust memorials for one week beginning on Sunday,
April 11 at Madison's Central Library, 201 West Mifflin Street. An opening of the exhibit will take place at 3:00 p.m. April 11 at the library. The program for the opening will include an overview and welcome by Steven Morrison, Executive Director of the Madison Jewish Community Council, remarks by Mayor Susan J. M. Bauman, welcome and introduction to library resources by library director Barbara Dimmik, and an introduction to the exhibition by Ellen Shoshany Kaim.
Other events at Madison Central Library
The library has prepared a listing of their extensive Holocaust collection. Claude Landsmann's "Shoah", the eleven-hour landmark documentary film, will be shown in three parts at the Madison Central Library, 201 West Mifflin Street as part of Holocaust Remembrance Week. Part I will be shown on Tuesday, April 13 from 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. Part II will be shown on Wednesday, April 14 from 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. and Part III will be shown on Saturday, April 17 from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Memorial Service and Program
The Madison Jewish community annually holds a memorial service and program on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year's service and program begins at 7:15 p.m. on Monday, April 12 at Temple Beth El, 2702 Arbor Drive. Following the half-hour memorial service, the program will focus on the stories of those who were in the Holocaust, remembered through their correspondence--In Their Own Words.
Events on Campus
A special Sabbath commemoration service will take place at Hillel, 611 Langdon St, at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 9. On Sunday, April 11 at 7:00 p.m. at a location to be announced (contact Hillel at 256-8361) a presentation on the March of the Living program will take place. The annual 24-hour reading of name of victims of the Holocaust -- The Cage -- begins on Library Mall at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 12. On Tuesday, April 13 at 7:00 p.m. survivors of the Holocaust will speak (Check "Today in the Union" for location). At 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 14, Dr. Michael Berenbaum, founding director of the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, will speak at Mills Music Hall. On Thursday, April 15, a series of round table discussions at various locations around campus will take place (Contact Hillel at 256-8361 for details.). Campus activities will close with a 7:00 p.m. program on tolerance (Contact Hillel at 256-8361 for details).
The importance of remembrance
Steven H. Morrison, Executive Director of the Madison Jewish Community
Council, issued the following statement.
"Remembrance has meaning. The meaning is to see all peoples as sovereign human beings, equally sovereign, equally entitled to life, to freedom and to dignity. To remember Auschwitz is to denounce the evil of Auschwitz. To remember Treblinka is to protest Treblinka. To remember the Holocaust is to express our profound belief that although creation was destroyed, distorted and disfigured, it can be saved."
"Some ask, why remember? Isn't it time to move on; to let go? We do not advocate remembrance simply as a form of self-indulgence or as submission
to melancholy, but as a means of redemption of the future, a future that has been so jeopardized by the past. Without remembrance, there can be no future. We remember the dead to remind the living of these important, essential, and urgent lesson."
"We remember because we have the responsibility to remember. We
remember because today there is violence. We remember because today
there is hate. We remember because today there is despair. We remember
because today it is the Ku Klux Klan which threatened to pollute our community with their venomous hatred. We remember because, no matter the source, we must always deny and condemn hate and its consequent
dehumanization of both those who are hated and those who hate."
"We remember in the words of Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, because for the
'dead and the living we must bear witness.' We remember so the horror of
the past won't repeat -- today or in the future."
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