(Cleveland)- On Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 11:00 am at The White County High School auditorium, there will be a free presentation on The Holocaust open to the public.
The program, coordinated by local Holocaust Education facilitator Kimberly Tallent of Cleveland, and WCHS Literature teacher Lori Chastain, is being presented by Georgia Commission on the Holocaust.
Holocaust survivor George Rishfeld will share his very personal and up-close survival experience with high school students who are studying the horrid ‘Final Solution’ of Hitler.
”The public is encouraged to attend this ‘first’, for not only our high school, but for the entire community”, says Tallent. It will be educational and very informative for the entire community, and Mrs. Chastain and I are grateful for the educational resources The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust is providing for this presentation, and most of all, bringing Mr. Rishfeld to our community.”
WCHS’s Lori Chastain, currently has student’s reading ‘Night” by Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel ( September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016). Wiesel was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor.
Tallent, who has studied the Holocaust for over a decade, including studies at The International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem World Holocaust Center in Jerusalem, Israel says Elie Wiesel said : “while not all victims were Jews, all Jews were victims.”; so with what he said, we must remember all the victims of this tragedy called The Holocaust. We cannot deny that Jewish people were the primary targets of the Nazis, nor should we ever belittle their suffering. In addition to six million Jews who perished, there were five million other non- Jewish victims of Hitler’s evil. Such victims include people who helped hide Jewish people and other “un-wanted people” of society: homosexuals, Gypsies, Mentally/Physically Disabled, Jehovah’s Witnesses. ”
The free program begins promptly at 11:00 a.m. and all are welcome.
