#TogetherWeRemember event to honor genocide victims

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 10-11.

#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 10-11, members of the Heidelberg community will join thousands of people who will convene using the hashtag #TogetherWeRemember to participate the remembrance event.

For 24 hours, 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 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 Sunday, April 10, and reading until 6 p.m. on Monday, April 11. If you would like to participate, please contact Julie Arnold at jarnold3@heidelberg.edu or Paul Stark at pstark@heidelberg.edu.