Events planned in observance of Holocaust Remembrance Month

 

Marshall University will be host in April to three events on its Huntington campus planned in observance of Holocaust Remembrance Month. Two additional events in Huntington also are part of the observance.

 

The events, all open to the public, are sponsored by Marshall’s College of Liberal Arts and department of theatre, Federated Jewish Charities of Huntington and B’nai B’rith Lodge #795. Here is the schedule:  

 

Thursday, April 5: 7 p.m., Francis-Booth Experimental Theatre at Marshall – “Holocaust Denial,” a panel with Rabbi David Wucher, Victor Winston (visiting Professor of International Affairs, Marshall University) and a speaker still to be determined from the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

 

Sunday, April 15: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., B’nai Sholom Congregation (10^th Street and 10^th Avenue) – “Yom Ha-Shoah,” of “Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust,” is commemorated locally be reading the names of Holocaust victims one after another, dramatizing the unfathomable notion of six million deaths.

 

Wednesday, April 18: 7 p.m., Francis-Booth Experimental Theatre at Marshall – “The Eternal Jew,” a 60-minute Nazi propaganda film and discussion led by Dr. Phil Rutherford, MU assistant professor of European history. This event is not recommended for children under 16.

 

Sunday, April 22: 2 to 4 p.m., Cabell County Public Library – Film showing of “Night and Fog,” award-winning French documentary, and book discussion of “Night,” by Eli Wiesel, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize, political activist and Holocaust survivor. “Night” is a memoir that describes Wiesel’s experiences during the Holocaust and his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.

 

Wednesday, April 25: Night of dinner, discussion and theatre at Marshall to support Faces of Appalachia: Studies in Ethnicity and Gender, a National Endowment for the Humanities initiative at MU.

• 5:45 p.m., dinner in support of Faces of Appalachia – providing scholarly efforts and K-12 continuing education on diversity on Marshall’s campus and in the region. The dinner takes place in the Memorial Student Center’s John Marshall Room.

• 7 p.m., “Coffee and Conversation,” with Director Gene Anthony and Rabbi David Wucher on the theatre production, Francis-Booth Experimental Theatre.

• 8 p.m., Marshall University Theatre performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” Joan C. Edwards Playhouse. The performance also will take place at 8 p.m. daily April 26-28.

 

A $100 donation per person to the Faces of Appalachia project reserves a place for the evening of dinner, discussion and theatre. Reservations may be made by calling Kristi Arrowood, director of special projects with the Marshall University Foundation Inc. at (304) 696-3505.