East Carolinian

Issue date: 3/3/09 Section: News

Media Credit: Travis Bartlett

Yesterday, ECU held a name reading called "Unto Every Person is a Name" as part of its annual Holocaust Awareness Day. Throughout the day the names of each person who perished in the Holocaust, and the death camps at which they were murdered, were called out at the Volunteer and Service Learning Center. The event was held to commemorate those who died during the Holocaust and honor those who survived and worked to liberate the concentration camps.

There is also an interactive exhibit called "One Soul: A Project of the Afikim Foundation" in the Mendenhall Student Center Multipurpose Room Gallery that will be on display all week. "One Soul" is a touring exhibit that displays a mix of archival photographs, film footage, personal audio testimonies and interactive displays. The exhibition explores the events that led to the creation of the concentration camps as well as their liberation. There are audio testimonies from members of the U.S armed forces who aided in the liberation of the concentration camps as well as survivors.

Other events scheduled for yesterday were canceled due to inclement weather. These events included the luminaries (lighting of 1,000 candles for Holocaust victims) on the ECU mall and a lecture in Hendrix Theatre by Nesse Godin, a Holocaust survivor. These activities will be rescheduled for later in the spring semester, and may coincide with Yom HaShoah, the international Holocaust Remembrance Day. Yom HaShoah is in recognition of the approximately six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. However, according to Carol Woodruff, a member of the Holocaust Awareness Day Committee, ECU's Holocaust Awareness Day is all-inclusive, honoring all 11 million victims.

"We also acknowledge the other five million; we don't want to forget them either," she said. "We try to be as inclusive as possible. That includes homosexuals, people who were Hungarian and Romanian [and] people who had physical challenges."

Holocaust Awareness Day is sponsored by the Office of Co-Curricular Programs and Cultural Outreach, Campus Recreation and Wellness, the Volunteer and Service Learning Center, the Ethnic Studies program, ECU Hillel and the Student Activities Board.

Further details will be released as events are rescheduled. For more information contact Jessica Gagne Cloutier at the Volunteer and Service Learning Center at gagnej@ecu.edu or 328-1554 or Carol Woodruff at woodruffc@ecu.edu or 328-6050.



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