BBC and UMass Dartmouth to hold discussion panel for Holocaust Remembrance Day

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DARTMOUTH — Bristol Community College’s Holocaust and Genocide Center,in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and History Department and the Jewish Federation of Greater New Bedford, will present Yom Ha’Shoah 2023: Reflections of Rescue and Resistance. This event will take place at noon, Tuesday, April 18, in the Grand Reading Room, at the UMass Dartmouth Library, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth. It is a free event and open to the public.   The event, in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day, will feature a panel of distinguished scholars of Holocaust studies who will discuss the theme of rescue during the holocaust. The panel discussion will be followed by a brief question and answer period.

Yom Ha’Shoah 2023: Reflections of Rescue and Resistance will take place at noon, Tuesday, April 18, in the Grand Reading Room, at the UMass Dartmouth Library. Ron Weisberger, director of the Bristol Community College Holocaust and Genocide Center, is seen in Fall River in 2019 in this file photo.
Yom Ha’Shoah 2023: Reflections of Rescue and Resistance will take place at noon, Tuesday, April 18, in the Grand Reading Room, at the UMass Dartmouth Library. Ron Weisberger, director of the Bristol Community College Holocaust and Genocide Center, is seen in Fall River in 2019 in this file photo.

The panel will feature Manya Bark, Visiting Scholar and Hillel Coordinator, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, UMass Dartmouth; Dr. Ilana Offenberger, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of History, UMass Dartmouth; Dr. Ron Weisberger, Director, Holocaust and Genocide Center, Bristol Community College.

For more information about this event, please contact Dr. Ron Weisberger by email at ron.weisberger@bristolcc.edu.

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