Students for Holocaust Awareness Committee
Rebecca Calderon
Rachael McSpadden
Logan Haynsworth
Emily Milligan
Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik
Carmody Smith
Lindsay Sell
Adam Fedrid
Colorado State University
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Associated Students of Colorado State University (ASCSU)
Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Chabad Jewish Student Organization
Student Leadership, Involvement & Community Engagement Staff
Student Anti-Genocide Coalition (STAND)
Association for Student Activity Programming (ASAP)
Colorado State University Bookstore
Resources for Disabled Students
Lory Student Center Staff
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Never Again?!
Students for Holocaust Awareness present the 17th Annual
Holocaust Awareness Week at Colorado State University.
Students for Holocaust Awareness is a student organization
that promotes awareness and education of the Holocaust
during WWII in Europe.
All events are free and open to the public through funding provided by
the Associate Students of Colorado State University (ASCSU), Hillel of
Colorado, Chabad Jewish Student Organization, and the Association
for Student Activity Programming (ASAP).
Brittany Goldsmith
Please visit http://holocaust.colostate.edu for more information.
Friday, March 1st
Field of Flags Setup— 3 pm at Lory Student Center Plaza
The flags represent the different groups murdered during the Holocaust, with each
flag representing 5,000 victims. The flags will be on display the entire Holocaust
week on the Plaza.
Monday, March 4th– Wednesday, March 6th
Litany of Martyrs: Remembering Those Who Perished
In Berlin he was
my father’s close companion. They passed
a good time in
that Berlin. The time passed. Now
he’ll never go away. He’s
most definitely
(my father died meanwhile)
against parting.
Natan Zach, a well known
Hebrew poet, was born in
Berlin in 1930. He now
lives and teaches in Haifa,
Israel.
10 am– 2pm at Lory Student Center Sunken Lounge
“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second
is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in
the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.” ― David Eagleman
Monday, March 4th
Evening with a Survivor: Dr. Renate Justin
Weekly Events
7 pm at Lory Student Center Theatre
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Dr. Justin, a survivor of the Holocaust, will share her extraordinary story
of survival, tragedy, and hope beginning at 7 p.m. Monday, March 4, in the
Lory Student Center Theatre. Dr. Justin has written numerous articles, both
personal and professional, recounting her remarkable life achievements and
personal history. Dr. Justin was beloved family physician for fifty years and has
received recognition for her work and publishing. Throughout her life she has
devoted herself to world peace, numerous causes of compassion and for those
in need. Her latest a must read book, The Last Time I Felt Safe
(available on Amazon.com), recounts her experiences with antiSemitism during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and then later in America,
culminating in a horrific family tragedy. For tonight's program, please turn to
pages 4 -7 in this program.
Renate Justin will read:
And Now in America
The memorial for Johnna
Leonard Bernstein — Symphony #3 “Kaddish”
The Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the dead. The actor Richard
Dreyfuss is a deeply concerned Jewish humanitarian, for whom the
recitation of this prayer, in ancient Aramaic, was a compelling reason to
travel to Rome. All in attendance, during the Kaddish, remembered the six
million for whom no prayers were said at their tragic death.
Leonard Bernstein — Chichester Psalms Movement III
Psalm 133, Verse 1
Behold how good,
And how pleasant it is
For brethren to dwell
Together in unity.
Tuesday, March 5th
Movie Night: Schindler’s List
7pm at Lory Student Center Theatre
Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who becomes
unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn
his factory into a refuge for Jews. Schlinder’s List is based on the true story of
Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the
Auschwitz concentration camp, a testament for the good in all of us.
Schalom, Peace.
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During the Litany of Martyrs, volunteers will take turns reading names of those who
died during the Holocaust. Students, faculty, staff, and community members are
welcome to volunteer for this event by signing up online through:
http://holocaust.colostate.edu.
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FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS
First they came for the Jews
Martin Niemoller, a German
and I did not speak out
theologian, was born in
because I was not a Jew.
Lippstadt in 1892. At first
Then they came for the Communists
impressed by Hitler, he later
and I did not speak out
became fiercely opposed to
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists Hitler. He was incarcerated
in concentration camps, Daand I did not speak out
chau and Sachsenhausen.
because I was not a trade unionist.
He was released in 1945 by
Then they came for me
the Allies and continued as a
and there was no on left
noted clergyman and pacifist.
to speak out for me.
Readings by Renate Justin from her e-book
The Last Time I Felt Safe
Zwerge-Dwarfs, Our Garden, The Letter, Herr Ficher, The Lie,
Good-bye, and Candida.
Poem by Natan Zach read by Ingrid Justin
AGAINST PARTING
My tailor is against parting
That’s why, he
said, he’s not going away;
he doesn’t want to part
from his only daughter. He’s definitely
against parting.
Once, he parted from his wife
and he never did see her
after this (Auschwitz).
Parted
from his three sisters and
these he never again
looked upon (Buchenwald)
He once parted from his mother (his father
died at a ripe old age). Now
he’s against parting.
Wednesday, March 6th
Women at Noon: Mr. Ilan Levy, Son of Holocaust
Survivors
12 pm at Lory Student Center Room 220
Mr. Levy is the son of Holocaust Survivors. Mr. Levy was born in Israel in the
town of Rohovot, a half hour south of Tel Aviv. From the age of 11 he grew
up in a kibbutz on the north end of Israel. Mr. Levy served in the Israeli
military in the tank divisions. He came to the US as a tourist in 1986 and
moved to Colorado in 1996. He became a US citizen in 1996 and has dual
citizenship with Israel. Mr. Levy was born to a father who grew up in a small
village along the border of France and Germany in Bliesbruck, France. He
survived the 2nd World War (Holocaust). His mother grew up in Litva,
Russia (Poland). She also survived the Holocaust physically but not
mentally. His immediate family survived WWII by going to south France, the
Bordeaux area. His extended family and parents’ families did not survive the
war. Currently, he lives in Fort Collins and owns Exodus Moving and
Storage. He enjoys yoga, riding mountain bikes, and parties. Mr. Levy has
four children, one of whom, Aidan, attends CSU.
Wednesday, March 6th
Dr. Deborah Lipstadt
The American Campus: A Hotbed of Anti-Semitism?
7 pm at Behavioral Sciences Building Room 131
Dr. Lipstadt, author of The Eichmann Trial and History on Trail: My Day in
Court with a Holocaust Denier, will speak about The American Campus: A
Hotbed of Anti-Semitism?. Dr. Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish
and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. Her most recent book,
The Eichmann Trial, was credited in the New York Times for “recovering the
event as a gripping legal drama, as well as a hinge moment in Israel’s history
and in the world’s delayed awakening to the magnitude of the Holocaust.”
Her earlier book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier is
the story of her libel trial in London against David Irving, who sued her for
calling him a Holocaust denier and right-wing extremist. The trial was
described by the Daily Telegraphy, London, as having “done for the new
century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier
generations.” The judge found Irving to be a Holocaust denier, a falsifier of
history, a racist, an anti-Semite, and a liar.
Friday, March 8th
Weekly Events
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Evening with a Survivor: Dr. Justin
Poem by Pastor Niemoller read by Ingrid Justin
Memorial Service– Remembering the Victims of the Holocaust
1 pm at Lory Student Center Room 230
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"Intolerance must end,” the Pope said, “so that a Holocaust
will never happen again.” The Jewish victims of Nazism must never
be forgotten, so that no new victims will have to pay their awful price
Please be seated quietly and enjoy the music from
the Papal Concert commemorating the Holocaust.
again. No one can ever desecrate the memory of the six million by
No applause during the program please.
900 million Catholics worldwide, spoke out clearly on April 7, 1994.
saying the Shoah never happened. The Pope himself, the leader of
History with all its weight surrounded us, recording the event for suc"On April 7, 1994, a historic event took place in the Vatican: the Papal Concert to Commemorate the Holocaust, hosted by His Holiness Pope John
Paul II and attended by no fewer than 22 cardinals, 4 rabbis (including Rav
Elio Toaff, the Chief Rabbi of Rome), over 200 survivors of the Holocaust
from 12 different nations, the President of Italy, ambassadors and dignitaries
from around the world. Imagine the astonishing scene in the Paul VI Hall
ceeding generations and thus silencing once and for all any who
would deny the truth…
No music can represent the Holocaust. No art can do justice
to its innocent victims. But if somehow we can aspire to a higher
understanding of our common humanity, perhaps, just perhaps, the
victims will not have died in vain.
(Sala Nervi) at the Vatican: three equal thrones--the Pope, the Rabbi, the
President. A six-candle menorah, one for each of the six million Jews killed
under Nazi tyranny. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra flown in from London
Ludwig Van Beethoven — Symphony IX (Movement 3)
The Adagio from the Symphony IX of Beethoven has always
solely for this occasion, joining the 500 year-old Vatican Capella Giulia
evoked the most ineffable transcendent spirituality in mankind. It
Choir, splendidly arrayed before the 7,500 in attendance.
alone, among the slow movements of Beethoven’s symphonies
seems to loose the listener in a timeless quest for atonement. Per-
A night of firsts: the first ever visit of a rabbi to the Vatican to coofficiate at a public function (the return visit for the Pope's historic visit to the
Rome Synagogue in 1986), the first time the Vatican had commemorated
haps the deaf composer, in writing his last wordless symphonic
Evening with a Survivor: Dr. Justin
Evening with a Survivor: Dr. Justin
Evening with a survivor:
Dr. Renate Justin
movement, had indeed reached his very limit of what pure music
could achieve in revealing our common humanity.
the Holocaust, the fist time Jews and Catholics had prayed together, each in
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simply as ''the best relations between Catholics and Jews in 2000 years."
Max Bruch— Kol Nidre
In many synagogues throughout the world, a lone cellist plays the
Bruch Kol Nidre to usher in the Jewish Holy Day of Yom Kippur, the
Even I, (Gilbert Levine, conductor) who had conceived the idea of
this concert in 1991, could not have imagined or foreseen the incredible spiritual force this event had for those in attendance and for the millions who
watched in more than 52 countries around the world on television. For this
idea, a concert in commemoration of the Holocaust in the presence of the
Pope, had been transformed by His Holiness over the course of the intervening three years into the grand occasion we all experienced that night…
Day of Atonement. Wordlessly, Max Bruch has captured the spirit of
cleansing and renewal which marks the journey of each soul on this
most holy day. For all, Jews and Christians alike, who were in the
Vatican on April 7, 1994, the playing of this heartrending work by
Lynn Harrell marked an invocation to the prayerful spirit of this entire
evening.
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their own way, under the Vatican's holy roof. A Vatican official described it
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