Holocaust Remembrance Day was held in the student lounge this afternoon. The event focused on moments of racial intolerance in history. The Holocaust was the main focus of the event; most of the information boards that lined the lounge were of the numerous and varied crimes that the Nazi regime committed in World War Two.
This is not to say that the Holocaust was the only example of hate crime given; there was information on the life and death of note worthy individuals such as Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, and Malcolm X.
Several boards also shed light on lesser-known Genocides: the genocide of Armenians by the Turks was a good example of this.
The movie, “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” was screened, as was “Secret Lives” and “Into the Arms of Strangers”, both documentaries about the Holocaust.
-by Josh Sanchez
