Elizabeth Sandy’s visit is arranged through the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center in Providence. These events are co-sponsored by the URI Chaplains Association the Office of Community Equity and Diversity Student Affairs the Multicultural Student Services Center the Gender and Sexuality Center the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies the URI History Department and URI Dining Services. URI sophomore engineering student Daniel Groysman, an organizer of Hillel’s Holocaust Remembrance events, emphasizes that the vigil and presentation provide an important opportunity for the university community to remember and learn about the Holocaust while remaining vigilant in the face of present-day hatred, discrimination, and antisemitism. She emigrated to the United States arriving on July 4, 1949. After the war, she married and left Hungary for the displaced persons camp at the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. There she survived the Russian siege and capture of Budapest. She escaped from forced labor in Budapest by hiding in the annex of the Swiss Consulate. Her father, mother and brother were killed by the Nazis. One Day 27 January that we put aside to come together to remember, to learn about the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and the genocides that. (Image courtesy of Bob Sandy)Įlizabeth Garbovits Sandy was born in Hungary in 1923. Visit and search April 28 events or register here. A link will be provided upon registration for those who choose to watch virtually.Įlizabeth Garbovits Sandy, a survivor of the Holocaust, visited URI on April 28. There is no charge for the luncheon, but reservations are required. Sandy will share her story in greater detail, followed by a Q&A. Immediately following the vigil at 1 p.m., a luncheon will be held in the Multicultural Student Services Center’s Hardge Forum, where Mrs. Sandy and Director of the Multicultural Student Services Center Jean Nsabumuremyi, a native of Rwanda. Set against a moving backdrop of thousands of colored flags displayed as a remembrance of the millions killed in the Holocaust, the outdoor student-led vigil will include poetry, readings and songs with brief remarks from Mrs. outside the Multicultural Student Services Center at 74 Lower College Road on the Kingston Campus. April 28 is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. – Ap– On Thursday, April 28, the University of Rhode Island’s Hillel Center will hold a Holocaust Memorial Vigil and luncheon featuring Holocaust survivor Elizabeth Sandy.
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