Dr. Talbot Spivak Holocaust Memorial Week at Edison State College
Mar 28, 2011
Lee Campus
March 23, 2011
Dr. Talbot Spivak Holocaust Memorial Week at Edison State College
The Dr. Talbot Spivak Holocaust Memorial Week will be held on Monday, April 4 through Friday, April 8, 2011 at Edison State College Lee Campus. This annual, week-long event includes survivor talks, lectures, films, book discussions, exhibits, and tours of a World War II era boxcar on loan from the Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida. This year’s theme, “The Righteous,” will focus awareness on the courageous people who defended Jews and others under persecution by the Nazi regime.
The 2011 Holocaust Memorial Week includes a special presentation featuring descendants of Holocaust survivors and Nazi perpetrators called, “How the Light Gets In: Journeys of Transformation, a One by One Dialogue between Descendants of the Holocaust and the Nazi Regime,” on Monday, April 4 at 6pm in S-106/107.
All of the events during the Dr. Talbot Spivak Holocaust Memorial Week at Edison State College are free and open to the public; Edison State College, 8099 College Parkway, Fort Myers 33901. For more information, including the 2011 Schedule of Events, go to www.edison.edu/holocaust.
For more information about the Dr. Talbot Spivak Holocaust Memorial Week, please contact Holocaust Memorial Committee Co-Chair Professor Jane Bigelow at (239) 985-8345.
For media inquiries contact Meg Hawthorne, Public Information Specialist at Edison State College (Lee Campus) 239-489-9306 or mahawthorne@edison.edu.
Last Updated: March 28, 2011
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