Rice remembers the Holocaust

– May 2, 2008Posted in: Current News

About 300 people attended the Holocaust Awareness and Remembrance Event at Rice University April 30 to listen to a lecture by a world-renowned scholar and view an art exhibition about the Holocaust.

	PHOTOS BY JEFF FITLOW Top: The art exhibit, open 9 a.m. to noon May 2 and 4, features 28 works from Saul Balagura of Houston (left) and Avraham Sapir of Israel (right). Sapir is the only member of his family who survived the Holocaust’s death camps. Balagura is a self-taught Colombian-born artist who aims to keep the memory of the Holocaust victims alive through his paintings and poetry. Left: Scholar Shlomo Aronson discussed the history of the Holocaust in his talk “Hitler, the Allies and the Jews.”
The Holocaust Awareness and Remembrance Event at Rice was organized by undergraduate student Katherine Gomer, a political science major, and graduate student Christopher Schmidt, a linguistics major, and by postdoctoral research associate Oded Hod. The event was co-sponsored by a number of Rice organizations and other organizations from the community, including the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, the Graduate Student Association of Rice University, the Consulate General of Israel, the Israeli House, the Office of Judicial Affairs of Rice University, Houston Hillel, the Holocaust Museum of Houston and the Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance at Rice University.