The general public is invited to attend the U.S. Federal Government’s 16th Annual Federal Interagency Holocaust Remembrance Program. Thisb year the program is titled “We Survived. We Live On.†The event is free and open to all who attend.
Kerry Kennedy, daughter of the late U.S. Attorney General and Senator Robert F. Kennedy and a founder and board member of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights, will moderate this event.
More about our annual event can be found at Holocaust
remembrance.org.
The guest speakers are as follows:
Annette Lantos, a Jewish woman born in Hungary and the wife of the late Congressman Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress. Ms. Lantos will discuss her experiences in escaping from Hungary to Switzerland with a Portuguese passport arranged by Raoul Wallenberg, the famous Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands
of Jewish lives. She will also talk about how her husband, Tom, hid in a safe house established by Mr. Wallenberg in Hungary after fighting against the German Nazis in the resistance.
Dr. Edib Korkut will talk about his great uncle, Dervis Korkut,who was a Bosnian Muslim that smuggled and hid the oldest Sephardic Haggadah (Jewish religious book) in the world from the German Nazi Army. The book originated in Barcelona, Spain, around 1350, and Korkut hid the book with the assistance of a Muslim cleric. In addition, Mr. Korkut saved a Jewish girl by bringing her home and passing her off as a Muslim servant.
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Date:
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Time:
11:30 am until 1 pm
Location:
The beautifully restored Lincoln Theatre, a former vaudeville theater built in 1922, located at 1215 U Street NW, Washington, DC (between 12th and 13th Streets)
Metrorail Subway:
U Street/African-American Civil War Memorial Station/Cardozo Station on the Metro Green Line
Metrobus:
Routes 90, 92, 96 and 98.
Parking is limited on U Street.