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Holocaust survivor speaks on remembrance day
Organizers
expand
outreach for
fourth year
Brittany Smith
News Editor
Hillel is sponsoring a Holocaust
Remembrance Day on May 4 and 5.
On Wednesday, people will have the
opportunity to look at an exhibit about
the Holocaust and Nazi culture from 8
a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Commuter
Lounge. Thursday night at 7:15 p.m.
Shelly Weiner, a Holocaust survivor,
will speak in McKinnon Hall.
Building off last year’s exhibit, the
new memorial exhibit will have a time
line of Holocaust events, video of inter
views with other survivors, printed tes
timonials, miscellaneous facts about
the Nazi culture and eight candles lit for
the different concentration camps
across Europe, with facts about the con
centration camp to accompany the lit
candle.
During the day, students assisting at
the exhibit will also read off names of
victims who died in concentration
camps on the steps of Moseley Center
in front of Young Commons. “Students
will read the names of French Jews, it is
nowhere near the six million that died,
but it is enough to make an impact,”
said Samantha Blume, program coordi
nator. Readers will not use micro
phones to read the names. “Reading the
names is not like advertising their
death, it is reverent in their memory,”
Blume said.
Before the speech on Thursday,
Weiner will be leading a candle light
vigil and afterwards plans to hold a
question and answer session. Weiner
survived the Nazi attacks by going into
hiding in a neighboring village in
Poland. She currently lives in
Greensboro and works with the Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee, an
organization of survivors, to help edu
cate the public about the Holocaust and
Jewish heritage.
“By having a question and answer
session after her speech, it is a good
chance for students to interact with
her,” Blume said. “Weiner is a survivor
and they, unfortunately, are not going to
be around forever. She will also help to
bring Wednesday’s exhibit to life. By
seeing her and hearing her, students can
have a connection.”
Contact Brittany Smith at pendu
lum® elon.edu or 278-7247.
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Candles will be lit at the memorial exhibit in the
Lounge on May 4 in remembrance of those who died in t e
ferent concentration camps.
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Japan train accident kills at least 73
A packed commuter train jumped the tracks in western Japan and rammed into an apartment
complex, crumpling passenger cars into twisted metal. At least 73 people have been killed and
440 injured in the deadliest rail accident here in four decades. Investigators immediately focused
on whether excessive speed or the actions of the inexperienced driver caused the crash in an urban
area near Amagasaki. The 23-year-old driver had overshot the stop line at the last station before
the accident. The seven-car commuter train was carrying 580 passengers when it derailed, wreck
ing an automobile in its path before slamming into the nine-story apartment complex. Two of the
five derailed cars were flattened against the wall of the building, and hundreds of rescue workers
and police swarmed the wreckage and tended to the injured. Rescuers are still digging through
the rubble looking for survivors.
Florida sky diver hits plane on way down and dies
A skydiving cinematographer was killed after his legs were severed in a midair collision with the
airplane he had jumped from. Albert “Gus” Wing III had already deployed his parachute when
he struck the left wing of the DHC-6 Twin Otter propeller plane at about 600 feet, a witness on
the ground told police. Both of Wing’s legs were severed at the knees, but he managed to maneu
ver his parachute and land near the DeLand Airport, about 40 miles north of Orlando.
He was airlifted to a hospital, where he later died.
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