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

DATE: SUNDAY, February 17, 1991                   TAG: 9102140194
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HOLOCAUST EXHIBIT OPENS THURSDAY

The experience of Jewish children who were held in concentration camps during World War II is the subject of an exhibit opening Thursday at the Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts.

The exhibit is titled "We Were Children Just Like You." It was organized by the Center for Holocaust Studies in Brooklyn, N.Y.

A number of children's diaries are shown along with approximately 200 photographs in the exhibit.

In conjunction with the show, Charles Sydnor will lecture on the Holocaust. Dr. Sydnor is president of Emory and Henry College and past chairman of the education and Holocaust committee of the Virginia-Israel Commission. His writings on World War II Germany and the Holocaust include "Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945," which was published by Princeton University Press in 1977.

Sydnor will speak at 7 p.m. on Thursday in the museum's lecture hall at 20 E. Church Ave. The lecture is free and open to the public. Following the lecture, there will be a reception in the museum's sculpture court.

"We Were Children Just Like You" will continue at the museum through March 31.

by CNB