Our annual Evening of Holocaust Remembrance draws some 800 to 1,000 people from throughout the community to an occasion of remembrance and reflection. Each year, survivors, often accompanied by first prize recipients in the Annual Holocaust Art & Writing Contest, light six candles in remembrance of the millions who perished.
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The Candles of RemembranceHolocaust survivors and witnesses are joined by educators and students in the lighting of the Candles of Remembrance.
Metaphors of MemoryFour Chapman University students, three Holocaust history minors, created the multimedia and cross-curricular program "Metaphors of Memory."
Making ConnectionsLisa Cho, first place middle school artist, and Natalie Larson, first place middle school poet, spend time with Holocaust survivor Zelda Gordon at "An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance" (2011)
Survivor ReflectionsReflections from Holocaust survivors like Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel, help educate through firsthand accounts.
Past Holocaust Remembrance Commemorations
2020
An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance (A Virtual Commemoration)
April 21, 2020
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2019
An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance
(May 2, 2019)
An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance with guest speaker Dr. David Crowe, Presidential Fellow, Chapman University, and author of Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities and the True Story Behind the List.
2018
An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance
(April 12, 2018)
An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance with guest speaker Father Patrick Desbois, Founder and president of Yahad-In Unum, author of The Holocaust by Bullets, winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award, and In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets, and recipient of the 2017 Lantos Human Rights Prize.
2017
An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance
(April 20, 2017)
An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance in Word, Music, Dance and Film with filmmaker Molly Blank and a screening of her short film Memory Keepers. This event is presented as a special tribute to Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peach Prize Laureate
and Chapman University's Distinguished Presidential Fellow (2011-2015).
2016
An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance
(May 3, 2016)
Images of Memory: The Vilna of David Labkovski with Leora Raikin—Artist and Grand-Niece of David Labkovski.
Musical tributes from David Lisker (violinist) and Daniel Alfred Wachs (piano), additional music by Cantor Chayim Frenkel, and reflections from Rev. Dr. Gail Sterns.
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An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance: The Children of Terezin 
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