
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, April 10, 1990                   TAG: 9004100146
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HOLOCAUST OBSERVANCES SET

"Days of Remembrance," a week-long series of programs commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, will be held during National Holocaust Week, April 22-29.

Sponsored by the Roanoke Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the Roanoke Jewish Community Council and Hollins College's department of philosophy and religion, the events of "Days of Remembrance" are designed to help the community remember and understand the horror, tragedy and future implications of the Holocaust. All events are free and open to the public.

The following events are included in the series:

The Rev. Alvord Beardslee, professor of religion at Hollins College, will conduct "An Ecumenical Service of Remembrance" at the Unitarian Universalist Church April 22 at 3 p.m. The Acting Company also will present a dramatic reading.

"A Symposium on the Holocaust," an open forum for college students and the community, will be held April 24 at 3:30 p.m. in the Green Drawing Room, Main Building, Hollins College. Moderated by Jake Wheeler, professor of political science at Hollins College, and host of the public-television program "Nightline," discussants include Susan Cernyak-Spatz of the University of North Carolina, a survivor of Auschwitz and Theresienstadt, and Dr. Charles W. Sydnor Jr., president of Emory and Henry College, a historian and expert on the Nazi era. The panel discussion will be videotaped for public television.

Karl Schleunes, professor of history at the University of North Carolina and author of "The Twisted Road to Auschwitz," will discuss "The Holocaust: Explaining the Unexplainable" April 26 at 8 p.m. at the Roanoke Valley History Museum, Center in the Square in downtown Roanoke.

"The Children's Art of Theresienstadt," an exhibit of paintings and drawings by the children held captive in the so-called "Paradise Ghetto," is on view through April 28 at the Roanoke Valley History Museum in Center in the Square. The art exhibit is accompanied by posters depicting the Nazi-era events that led to the destruction of European Jewry.

For more information, call 362-6452.

by CNB