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“The Courage to Remember”: Holocaust Memorial Exhibit at Fresno State

Humanics (CSU Fresno)

http://www.fresnoah.org/the-courage-to-remember-holocaust-memorial-ex

September 21, 2011

 

The Foundation For California will open “The Courage To Remember,” an educational exhibit on the Holocaust, at California State University Fresno’s University Student Union Building (Pavilion Conference Room) on Thursday, September 22 at 4:30pm.

 

This exhibit will be open to the public for viewing beginning on September 22 at 4:30pm through September 27 at 10am. Its display hours will be from 9am-9pm each day, with exception to the abbreviated display hours of September 22 (4:30-9pm) and September 27 (9-10am).

 

A little bit about “The Courage To Remember …

 

“The Courage To Remember” is an historical exhibit of the Holocaust created by the Museum of Tolerance. The Foundation For California is pleased to coordinate a statewide tour of this traveling exhibit over the next year to continue Holocaust education in communities throughout California.

 

This exhibit is a 42 panel educational exhibit on the Holocaust of 1933-1945. It is an historical account of the Nazis’ campaign in which 6 million Jews and others (political dissidents, P.O.W.’s, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals and the mentally ill) were killed between 1933 and 1945.

 

The crimes of the Nazis during the Holocaust serve as a dark chapter of the 20th century.

 

This exhibit of the Museum of Tolerance is made possible by an educational grant from SNCF and presented by the Foundation For California. For additional information about the exhibit and touring schedule, please contact:

Ted Gover

Executive Director

Foundation For California

phone #: 1-562-355-1325

e-mail:     tedgover@gmail.com

Holocaust Exhibit Opens at Fresno State

September 22, 2011

A new exhibit opening at Fresno State today aims to inspire tolerance.

“The Courage to Remember” is a traveling exhibit on the holocaust with more than three dozen panels depicting a historical account of the atrocity that claimed six million Jewish lives.

The exhibit opens with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 4:30 pm this afternoon at the university student union pavilion.

Two holocaust survivors will be on hand for today’s opening.

Foundation For California kicks off a Central Valley tour of “The Courage To Remember” Holocaust exhibit on Sept. 22, 4:30 PM at California State University Fresno’s University Student Union Building.

Long Beach, CA – Because violence against racial, ethnic and religious minorities continue to mar civil society, the Foundation For California presents a unique traveling exhibit of Holocaust education without cost to the public. “The Courage To Remember” Holocaust exhibit will open on September 22, 6:30 PM at California State University Fresno’s University Student Union Building (5280 North Jackson Ave., Fresno, CA 93740). Attending will be a gathering of civic, business, political religious and community leaders. Refreshments will be served. This September 22 opening ceremony is open to the public.

“We are delighted and honored to open ‘The Courage To Remember’ at California State University Fresno,” said Dr. Alfred Balitzer, Chairman of the Foundation. “The lesson of the Holocaust ties together the past to the present, teaching the dangerous and destructive impacts of ignorance, hate and intolerance on individuals, communities and nations. In our culturally diverse state, this exhibit is not a luxury, it is a necessity.”

The traveling exhibit is based on the internationally acclaimed “Courage to Remember” Holocaust exhibit of the Museum of Tolerance, the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The Foundation first made the traveling exhibit available to California communities in 1991. Two decades later its message is still relevant. “The timeless message of ‘never forget’ provides a link between generations, using history to empower each generation to resist ignorance and stand up for what is right,” stated Rodney Wilson, a member of the Foundation’s Board.

Three identical versions of this exhibit will travel throughout California over the next twelve months, appearing in libraries, schools, community centers and in other public venues as a result of a grant to the Foundation by SNCF. “It is so important that we remember and do not forget our past history so we do not repeat it,” said Denis Doute, CEO of SNCF of America. “That is why we are committed to Holocaust remembrance and have made this grant to the Foundation for California.”

“Two decades after we designed this exhibit, its lesson is still vital to peace at home and abroad,” stated Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. From time to time, Rabbi Cooper will appear with other spokespersons from the Museum of Tolerance to speak on the meaning of the Holocaust during the presentation of the exhibit.

“The Courage To Remember” will be on display at California State University Fresno from September 22 – 27.

To attend the September 22, 6:30 PM opening ceremony, please R.S.V.P. by September 20 at (562)355-1325 or by e-mail at tedgover@gmail.com

To schedule the “The Courage to Remember” or to obtain additional information about this exhibit, please visit www.FoundationForCalifornia.com or www.CourageToRemember.com.

About the Foundation for California:

Incorporated in 1986, the Foundation For California, a non-profit 501(c)3 educational corporation, was established to perform educational programs on issues of importance to the State of California, its local communities and the people of California. Over the past 25 years, the Foundation has hosted conferences on public policy issues, sponsored educational lecture series and unveiled traveling exhibits, bringing the important issues of our society to the forefront of discussion throughout California.

Contact: Foundation For California

phone #: (562)961-5595

www.FoundationForCalifornia.com

Holocaust exhibit opens in University Library

By Krista Brooks

http://www.daily49er.com/search-1.1356395?q=courage+to+remember

September 18, 2011

After 20 years of traveling the world, “The Courage to Remember” Holocaust exhibit has returned to California, and will make a special debut in the Cal State Long Beach University Library today at 3 p.m.

Funded by the Foundation for California, the third floor will have a free public display of more than 200 original photographs from 1933-45.

The exhibit is from the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, and it shows a series of 10 stories that have been viewed by more than 20 million people in more than 35 different countries.

There will be speakers from the community at the opening, including Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Rabbi Adlerstein and Holocaust survivor Gerda Seifer.

The 42 panels were chosen to be in the school library rather than at the art museum on campus, so that the displays were more interactive with the public — not just pictures on the wall.

“The message is still very timely, hate crimes are still happening today,” Foundation President Rod Wilson said.

In addition to the full-color visual series of “The Courage to Remember” exhibit, three identical series will be traveling the state for the next 12 months.

The stories told will be focused on four major themes: Nazi Germany (1933-38), moving toward the “final solution” (1939-45), annihilation in Nazi-occupied Europe (1941-45) and liberation — building new lives.

“This exhibit serves as a reminder that the power is in all of us to make a difference in our community, school and city,” Wilson said.

The exhibit is free of charge and will be on display until Oct. 16.