Holocaust Remembrance

Annual Holocaust Remembrance | 2024

Annual Holocaust Remembrance | 2024

Date

4-9-2024

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Description

The 2024 Holocaust Remembrance was held Tuesday, 9 April in the basement auditorium at Merrill Hall, Jacksonville State University.

Chris Berdy is a partner in the law firm of Butler Snow LLP. Active in the community, Chris is on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Holocaust Education Center, and he is the AHEC’s president-elect. Chris is a second-generation Holocaust survivor, and he shares the story of his father’s survival in occupied France following his grandparents’ and extended family members’ expulsion from Vienna after the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. Chris is a dual citizen of both the United States and Austria.

Participants

Introduction: Karlie Johnson, Remembrance Committee Chair; Invocation: Rabbi Yossi Friedman; Remembering the Holocaust Writing Contest: April Mattox, Susan Shellhorse, Katie Johnson; Comment, Wesley Bishop, JSU Dept. of History & Foreign Language; Speaker: Christopher Berdy

Disciplines

European History | Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Location

The video for this program was born-digital; there is no physical medium.

Keywords

Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

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Annual Holocaust Remembrance | 2024

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