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יום הזיכרון לשואה והגבורה‎ Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 1, 2019

"Resistance can be what you do every day. Resistance is remembering and honoring history, resistance is donating to charity. Resistance is going out and voting. Resistance is being here today, listening with full attentiveness and with open hearts and minds to the people here on stage today," junior Nathan Appelbaum said in the opening remarks.

“To forget the dead is to kill them a second time. To forget yourself is a worse thing."

Excerpt from "Dear Diary, May 7, 1945," read by Kennedy Coates, Mikaela Ewing, Yanni Simmons, and Destiney Williamson.

Lily Peterson lights the sixth candle of seven, "for the infants, children, and teenagers who were killed before they had a chance to experience life."

"I know of course; it’s simply luck /That I’ve survived so many friends. But last night in a dream /I heard those friends say of me: ‘Survival of the fittest’ /And I hated myself" sophomore Elena Stern, reading "I, the Survivor" by Berthold Brecht

".מחניק פה, אין אוויר, החושך מפחיד"

"It’s suffocating in here; there’s no air, and the darkness is scary.”

Daniela and Yael Rolnik read from “The Last Thoughts of a Little Girl in the Hell of Auschwitz," by Reut L.

Photos by Odysseus Nikas, Maria Shaughnessy, and Macy Beal

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