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REMEMBER
THE HOLOCAUST
MANHATTAN
COLLEGE HOSTS EVENT TO COMMEMORATE
YOM HASHOAH
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| EVENT: |
YOM
HASHOAH: HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
Manhattan College’s Campus Ministry & Social Action
department, Congregation Tehillah of Riverdale and the College’s
Holocaust Resource Center will hold a commemoration of Yom Hashoah
in remembrance of the Holocaust. |
| WHEN: |
Sunday,
April 18, 2004
3:00 p.m. |
| WHERE: |
Manhattan
College
Alumni
Room, O’Malley Library |
| WHY: |
To remember
the victims of the Holocaust. This event will feature
a short commemorative service and the showing of part of the
documentary film, Weapons of the Spirit, which is about
the French village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon where 5,000 Jews
were saved during the Holocaust. |
| WHO: |
This
event is free and open to the public. |
| CONTACT: |
For more
information about this event, please contact Jeff Horn, professor
of history at Manhattan College, at (718) 862-7129.
Members
of the press interested in covering this event, please contact
Melanie A. Farmer, public information officer at (718)
862-7232. |
| MORE: |
Manhattan
College is located at West 242nd Street near Broadway in the
Riverdale section of the Bronx and accessible by MTA subway
lines 1 and 9. For more information about the College, visit
www.manhattan.edu. |
