Akron-Summit Council on Holocaust & Genocide Education to host commemoration, awards ceremony April 26

AKRON, Ohio – The Akron-Summit Council on Holocaust & Genocide Instruction will host the 34th yearly Akron-Summit Holocaust Commemoration and Awards Ceremony April 26 at 6 p.m. in the Akron-Summit County Community Library’s major department auditorium, 60 S. Higher St., Akron.

The commemoration celebration is totally free and open up to the public. Attendees are requested to arrive by 5:45 p.m.

Emma Kaufmann Rose, author of “Saving 6 Million: A Holocaust Memoir,” will converse at the occasion. Rose, 26, is the granddaughter of kids of the Holocaust Ingrid Kennedy and Joseph Kennedy, both of those Akron residents.

The memoir is a legitimate story about the lives of Joszi Kaufmann (Joseph Kennedy) born in Budapest, Hungary in 1928, and Ingeborg Hausen (Ingrid Kennedy) born in Vienna, Austria in 1936. Although neither was in a focus camp, both of those witnessed the horrors of war. The memoir chronicles their lives and achievements by the viewpoint of their granddaughter. A chemist, Joseph Kennedy, 93, has worked at the College of Akron because 1970. All through his time there, he has gained quite a few patents for his health care discoveries and everyday living-saving innovations.

The e book was a personal task for Rose, a resident of Cleveland’s Ohio Town neighborhood, who put in a lot more than two years creating it and gave it to her grandparents as a shock last Hanukkah.

“They ended up shell-shocked,” Rose said. “They have not stopped chatting about it. They reported it is the very best existing they have at any time gotten.”

Rose stated it means a excellent deal to her to be picked to speak at the event because she considers her grandparents’ experiences to be “minor” when compared to all those who experienced the horrors of focus camps firsthand. But she even now thinks it is crucial to maintain and share the stories, notably in a time when some people endeavor to deny or distort the Holocaust. The Kennedys plan to go to the occasion, in accordance to Rose.

Winners of the Akron-Summit Holocaust Arts & Creating Contest will be declared at the function. The once-a-year contest options artwork and writings by Summit County college students in grades 6-12 that goal to education and learning group members about the Holocaust and other genocides. Profitable students’ functions will be on display at the Akron-Summit Principal Library from April 4-Might 2 and on the contest web-site.

“Each yr, this celebration encourages all of us to take pause to remember the tens of millions misplaced as a outcome of the Holocaust,” claimed Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan in a information release. “This significant gathering fosters consciousness which in change can help in stopping these kinds of atrocities in the future. I appear ahead to attending and honoring the winners of the Akron- Summit Holocaust Arts & Crafting Contest, which supplies 1000’s of students the chance to find out the lessons of the Holocaust, when expressing themselves by artwork and producing.”

The ceremony will be hosted by Martin H. Belsky, a University of Akron Law Professor and Akron-Summit Council on Holocaust and Genocide Training Chair. The Akron-Summit Council on Holocaust & Genocide Training is supported by Summit County, the City of Akron and donations. To make a donation, pay a visit to the Akron-Summit Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education web-site.

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