Holocaust Remembrance
Annual Holocaust Remembrance | 2025
Date
4-8-2025
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Description
The 2025 Holocaust Remembrance was held Tuesday, 8 April in the basement auditorium at Merrill Hall, Jacksonville State University.
Esther Levy’s presentation focuses on her mother’s life from September 1, 1939, with the bombing of her town, through being in a youth work camp, the years in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz Concentration Camp, and laboring in a munitions factory in Germany to her unexpected rescue in 1945. Ms. Levy talks about what her mother experienced as well as gives the background information of what was going on around her. The PowerPoint presentation Ms. Levy uses contains historical information as well as a short video about the Lodz Ghetto.
Ms. Levy hopes the audience will leave with an understanding of what life was like for her mother, a fourteen-year-old girl, who lost everything and everyone she loved, along with five years of her life in which she should have experienced being a teenager before moving on to becoming an adult. However, Ms. Levy’s greatest wish is that this experience will impress on attendees the knowledge that any society can be so manipulated that they can allow a Holocaust to happen when hatred and bigotry are acceptable.
Participants
Esther Levy, Karlie Johnson, Rachel Weiser, Benjamin Gross, Steve West, April Mattox, Tim Lockette, Curtis McGhee
Disciplines
European History | Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Is Part Of
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).
Rights
This video is the property of Jacksonville State University and is intended for non-commercial use. It may be accessed for research, teaching, personal, or any fair use as defined by U.S. copyright law. The video may not be altered in any way. Users of these videos are asked to acknowledge Jacksonville State University. For questions or further information about usage rights, please contact digitalcommons@jsu.edu.
Recommended Citation
Levy, Esther, "Annual Holocaust Remembrance | 2025" (2025). Holocaust Remembrance. 14.
https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/ce_holocaust/14