Tonight, we will honor those who perished, those who survived, and those who dedicated their lives to telling their stories and ensuring that the memories of the Holocaust are never forgotten.” Henry Schanzer and Bernard Schanzer We, the Jewish people, cannot be destroyed. Tali Naor ’18S, then-president of SHEM, said, “All of us sitting here in this room are living proof that the Nazis were wrong. Last year’s event presented the stories of Bernard and Henry Schanzer, twin brothers whose family survived through the kindness of “righteous gentiles” in France who hid and protected them. In many respects, Yeshiva University honors the mission of the IHRD year-round with events and programs aimed at both preserving the stories of survivors and promoting a wider awareness of the Holocaust.įor instance, the Student Holocaust Education Movement (SHEM) holds an annual commemoration honoring Holocaust survivors and victims in the storied Lamport Auditorium on the Wilf Campus. International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD) was established by the United Nations as a day for member states to honor the Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism. In the press release announcing the study, Berman noted that “as the UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day approaches, we are reminded of how important education is if we are to ensure that the atrocities of the Holocaust will never happen again.” (Click here to read an interview done with Julius Berman.) This follows a similar survey done in 2018 for the United States.īoth studies found a stunning ignorance of basic historical facts and a lack of detailed knowledge of the Holocaust. On January 24, 2019, Naomi Azrieli, chair and CEO of the Azrieli Foundation, and Julius Berman, president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (known as the Claims Conference), both of whom are members of the Board of Trustees of Yeshiva University, jointly announced the release of a comprehensive Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey of adults in Canada. Ensuring That What Happened Before Does Not Happen Again
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