Announcements
#TogetherWeRemember to honor genocide victims
March 12, 2019
As a call to action and an extension of the Lichtman-Behm Genocide Lecture Series, Heidelberg will participate in a remembrance event to commemorate the victims of genocide from the 20th and 21st centuries on April 1-2.
#TogetherWeRemember is a global day of remembrance and activism in honor of victims of genocide through coordinated name readings in communities across the world and on social media.
On April 1-2, members of the Heidelberg community will join thousands of people who will convene using the hashtag #TogetherWeRemember to participate in the remembrance event.
Participants will gather locally and online to read names from the Archive of Names, the first of its kind to centralize names of victims and rescuers from different genocides.
David Estrin, grandson of Jimmy Lichtman, who spoke during last fall’s Lichtman-Behm Genocide Lecture Series about his organization called the Coalition for Preserving Memory, has been instrumental in helping Heidelberg to organize this reading.
Heidelberg will take part in this by reading names starting at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 1, and read until midnight, then resume on Tuesday, April 2 at 8 a.m. and continue until 6 p.m. in the University Commons. If you would like to participate, please contact Julie Arnold at jarnold3@heidelberg.edu or Paul Stark at pstark@heidelberg.edu.
