Saturday, September 29, 2007, 12:30 p.m.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Group Tour

As part of Seton Hill’s Annual Washington, DC, Trip, the Center has arranged a group tour of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Please sign-up for the tour in the Activities Office when you make your bus reservation. Spaces are limited. To learn more about the museum, go on-line to www.ushmm.gov.

October 9, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
Unity Rally

St. Clair Park, Greensburg
Sponsored by the Central Westmoreland Unity Coalition, this rally is an annual event to promote community understanding. Join Greensburg community residents and other area university students to show your support of this program!

Thursday, November 1 through Sunday, November 18, 2007
Art Exhibit: A Child Artist in Terezín: Witness to the Holocaust

Reeves Memorial Library
To honor the memory of victims of the Holocaust, and of Terezín in particular, the Honorary Consulate General of the Czech Republic-Philadelphia, offers this unique series of drawings and watercolors by Helga Weissová-Hosková. Transported from Prague to Terezín in December 1941, with her brushes and paints packed among her limited luggage, then twelve-year-old Helga created a personal diary of conditions of life in Terezín. Both Helga and her mother survived, despite deportation to other Nazi camps, including Auschwitz and Mauthausen. This powerful collection of artworks chronicles life during the Holocaust seen through the eyes of a young artist, facing uncertain and extreme conditions as everyday facts of life. This exhibit is sponsored in memory of Laura Sudimack Ridge, mother of former governor Tom Ridge, and the entire Sudimack Family.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 6:00 p.m.
Kristallnacht Remembrance Service

St. Joseph Chapel
On November 9-10, 1938, Nazis burned synagogues, looted Jewish homes and businesses and murdered individuals in a nationwide pogrom called Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”). This year’s guest speaker is Eric W. Blaustein of Pittsburgh. He was born in Chemnitz, Germany in 1926 and grew up under the ever-worsening pressure of Nazi persecution, which lead to Kristallnacht and reached its apex with the physical extermination of the Jewish population. He was liberated from Buchenwald in 1945 by the U.S. Army. Also joining us for this special interfaith service are Holocaust survivors Jack Sittsamer, Shulamit Imber, Sam and Goldie Weinreb and Robert Mendler.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
JoAnne Boyle Forum on World Affairs Lecture with Guest Lecturer Alex Grobman

Lynch Lecture Hall (101L)
Dr. Alex Grobman is president of the Brenn Institute, a think-tank dealing with historical and contemporary issues affecting the Jewish community. Dr. Grobman founded the first Holocaust center in the U.S. in St. Louis. He also served as director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Grobman will speak on “Those Who Dared: Rescuers and Rescued.” The NCCHE is a co-sponsor of this event.

Other Center Events

Sunday, October 14 to Tuesday, October 23, 2007—Interfaith Community Tour to Israel

For more information on the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education at Seton Hill, please visit NCCHE or contact the NCCHE directly at 724-830-1033 or ncche@setonhill.edu.