Annual Holocaust Remembrance Program

2024 Holocaust Remembrance Program

Date: Tuesday, 9 April 2024
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Speaker: Christopher Berdy | Speaker Biography
Location: Merrill Hall Auditorium, B10
Program Description: Chris Berdy is a partner in the law firm of Butler Snow LLP.  Active in the community, Chris is on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Holocaust Education Center, and he is the AHEC’s president-elect. Chris is a second-generation Holocaust survivor, and he shares the story of his father’s survival in occupied France following his grandparents’ and extended family members’ expulsion from Vienna after the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. Chris is a dual citizen of both the United States and Austria. 

Remembrance Program Archives (1982-2023)

Contains information on past remembrance programs, including streaming video, newspaper articles, photos, program flyers, and more.

Imagining the Holocaust Writing Contest
The Department of English at Jacksonville State University has “reimagined” the Imagining the Holocaust Writing Contest for middle and high school students to include new categories in commemorative poetry, creative nonfiction, and multimodal composition. The top three middle and high school students in each category will win cash prizes: 1st - $150, 2nd - $100, 3rd - $50. Teachers of the 1st place winners will receive a $150 classroom grant. The contest deadline is February 20. Additionally, the program has expanded to include classroom grants for middle and high school teachers up to $600 and separate teaching circle grants of $1500 each to one middle and one high school teaching circle. The deadline for grant proposals is February 1. Teachers must use their funds for tangible materials to assist them in teaching the Holocaust and its literature in the classroom. Please see the Imagining the Holocaust website for more information.

Contact Program Planners
E-mail program planners for information or questions about the annual Holocaust Remembrance program.

National Days of Remembrance
The national Days of Remembrance program observed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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