The Holocaust – Days of Remembrance

The Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University-Commerce, along with the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance are excited to present a two day program entitled “The Holocaust: Days of Remembrance”.

This event will be hosted April 21-22, 2014 at Texas A&M University-Commerce in the Sam Rayburn Student Center (SRSC). Campus Map.

The program will feature artifacts from the Holocaust and a traveling exhibit from the Dallas Holocaust Museum that will be on display in the SRSC. Holocaust survivors Margaret “Magie” Furst, Jack Repp, and Rosa Blum are this year’s guest speakers. 

“The Holocaust is representative of both the very worst and, ironically, the best in human nature,” said Dr. Jeffrey C. Herndon, Associate Professor and Interim Department Head of Political Science at A&M-Commerce. “On the one hand, it was the triumph of intolerance. On the other it demonstrates the power of hope and perseverance in the face of the kind of adversity that most people, thankfully, will never experience.”

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

Monday, April 21st
    10:00am – Guest Speaker Margaret “Magie” Furst 
    2:00pm – Guest Speaker Jack Repp 

Tuesday, April 22nd  
    10:00am – Guest Speaker Rosa Blum 

*All events will be free and open to the public. 

“It is the privilege of the Department of Political Science to work with the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance to bring some of those who survived the horrors of the Holocaust to Texas A&M University-Commerce so that their stories can be told and remembered,” said Dr. Herndon. “This is important because every day the number of those who survived are passing away and we are determined to remember them and give our students the opportunity to hear their stories.”

GUEST SPEAKERS

Margaret “Magie” Furst will share about her experiences as a Kindertransport child. 
Jack Repp will recount his time in Poland as a resistance fighter and in the death camps of Dachau and Auschwitz. 
Rosa Blum will speak about her separation from her family and her life in the camps. 

For more information on the speakers, visit http://www.dallasholocaustmuseum.org/education/speakers.