This Week Colorado State University will host the 16th annual Holocaust and Genocide Awareness week to remind students and people about the horrors and injustice that occurred.
Names of people murdered during the recent genocide in Rwanda will be read, a screening of a movie, discussions with professors and speeches from survivors from both the Holocaust and the genocide.
The week will also involve presentations sponsored by Students for Holocaust and Genocide Awareness and The Associated Students of Colorado State University.
On Friday, volunteers gathered to plant flags at the ground in a symbolic remembrance of the millions of lives lost in the Holocaust.
The theme of this memorial is ‘Untold Stories of Genocide’ “because people might be able to see the specific numbers, but they can’t always know about the stories within the numbers,” Rabbi Allison Peiser, director at CSU told reporters via email.
Peiser said. “I think that sometimes it’s important to put ourselves in that place of sadness because it might bring us to action.”
Students from different parts of university campus joined together to plan and volunteer at events for this coming week, including freshman engineering major Nick Kennard and senior English major Raqual
Tarantino.
Kennard got involved with the planning committee when he heard about the memorial week at the Student Involvement fair. He is involved because he believes that if we end up forgetting to teach people about the events that happened in the past, “they will happen again.”
Students say this week it is important for people to see different perspectives of the Holocaust and to understand that forgiveness is not easily achieved.
While the phrase ‘Never again’ is associated with the genocide it is also associated with the Holocaust. The hope these students have is that by acknowledging that genocides continue to happen and by doing this sort of education that maybe someday there can be some kind of prevention.
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