URI Hillel will be commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah, with a series of events April 16-18 and we are hoping you will be able to attend.

On Sunday, April 16 at 1:15 pm we will be planting a Memorial Field of Flags on the Hammerschlag Mall (between the Multicultural Center and the Library).

On Monday April 17, students are organizing a "Walk to Remember." We are inviting people to gather outside of Hillel at 5:15 pm for opening remarks from President Marc Parlange setting the context for the walk. We will then walk in silence to the Multicultural Student Services Center. Other people can join us there for a second set of remarks at around 5:25 pm. The walk will then continue toward the library, past the flags, and up to the Quad; circling the quad and returning to the Multicultural Student Services Center to arrive for concluding remarks just before 6 pm. The event will ceremonially end when the clock chimes six, symbolizing the 6 million Jews who were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

On Tuesday, April 18, Holocaust survivor, Alice Eichenbaum, will be speaking in the Swan Hall Auditorium at 5 pm. Eichenbaum was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928, but grew up and attended school in Sofia, Bulgaria – until shortly after Hitler marched into Bulgaria in 1941. She and her family, along with countless others, were expelled from Sofia to a Jewish ghetto along the Turkish border where they remained for a year and a half. Eichenbaum will share their stories of survival and how she and her late husband Raymond, a survivor of Auschwitz, made new lives in the United States. Register for Alice Eichenbaum's talk here.

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