Sinclair Holocaust Remembrance

Survivor Samuel Heider will deliver the keynote speech for Sinclair Community College’s Holocaust Remembrance 2013, on Thursday, April 4 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 14130, Building 14. Heider was the only member of his family not killed in the Holocaust. Among the concentration camps he survived were Dachau and Auschwitz. He and his wife, Phyllis – a survivor of Bergen-Belsen – met and married in a DP camp after the war and settled in Dayton.

The Sinclair Campus Ministry will hold its Yom Hashoah Commemoration on Tuesday, April 9 at 12:30 p.m. at the Sinclair Library Loggia, Building 7.

On Monday, April 15 at 2 p.m. at the loggia, Dayton Holocaust Committee Chair Renate Frydman will discuss her story of survival. Frydman is the curator of Prejudice and Memory: A Holocaust Exhibit, on permanent display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.

Sinclair will also host a Holocaust workshop for teachers and education majors on Thursday, April 11 at 4 p.m. in Room 7006 at the Tartan Marketplace, Building 7. Registration is required; contact Thomas Martin at thomas.martin.6057@sinclair.edu.

Community Yom Hashoah Observance
Reflections Through The Eyes Of Our Children is the theme of the Dayton Area Yom Hashoah Observance: A Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, on Sunday, April 7 at 7 p.m. at Temple Beth Or, 5275 Marshall Rd. in Washington Township. As part of the program, teenagers from the Dayton Jewish community will present the stories of local survivors. During the evening, the student winners of the annual Holocaust Writing Contest and Max May Memorial Holocaust Art Contest will be recognized. Works from the art contest will be on display beginning at 6 p.m. For more information, call Jodi Phares at the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton at 853-0372 ext. 1131.

Zoot Theatre Company presents And A Child Shall Lead
April 5-14 at the Dayton Art Institute. Use special code JFGD13 when ordering tickets for $2.00 off each ticket (Not valid with any other offer or discount. Only valid through Sunday, March 31). To order tickets or for more information, call 224-4ART (224-4278).

Oakwood Schools present Gerda Weissmann Klein

On Thursday, April 11 at 7 p.m., Holocaust survivor and author Gerda Weissmann Klein will be the guest speaker at Oakwood High School Auditorium, 1200 Far Hills Ave. Her autobiography, All But My Life, formed the basis for the documentary, One Survivor Remembers, produced by HBO and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; the film received the 1995 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject and a 1994-95 Emmy. In 1998, she and her husband established a foundation to promote tolerance and community service, which has provided curricula to more than 100,000 schools around the world. In 2008, she founded Citizenship Counts, a non-profit to educate youths about the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship. She was a 2010 recipient of a Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from President Barack Obama. The program is free and open to the community. For more information, call Amy Ostdiek at 297-5325.