Commemoration
State of North Carolina Holocaust Commemoration
The 2025 State of North Carolina Holocaust Commemoration will be held Sunday, April 27, 2025, 3:00 pm, at the McKimmon Center at NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27606 (1101 Gorman Street, at intersection with Western Blvd.).
View the 2025 Commemoration live at
http://tinyurl.com/nb823af3
This year's Commemoration will feature:
- A Holocaust Education Panel Discussion led by NC public school teachers, focused on their recent eight-day teacher training seminar in Poland
- Presentations by state officials, clergy, and others
- A candle-lighting ceremony
- Teacher and student Holocaust exhibits
- Guest speakers
Holocaust Education Panel Discussion
This year we are honored to host three North Carolina public school teachers who participated in an eight-day teacher training seminar in Poland, sponsored by the NC Council on the Holocaust and the North Carolina Association for the Advancement of Teaching.
The panel will be introduced by Rabbi Fred Guttman, who served as the rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, and who has taken more than 70 public North Carolina high school teachers to Poland for training in how to more effectively teach the Holocaust.
Meet the teachers:
Melanie Handy | Dudley High School in Greensboro
Stephanie Walker | Heritage High School in Wake Forest
Ashlyn Steelman-Tolbert | William C. Friday Middle School in Dallas, Gaston County
The panel moderator is Sharon Kurtzman, the daughter of Holocaust survivors and the author of the historical novel, The Lost Baker of Vienna. [italicize The Lost Baker of Vienna]
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah in Hebrew) is a day set aside for remembering the victims of the Holocaust and for reminding Americans of what can happen to civilized people when bigotry, hatred, and indifference reign. The United States Holocaust Memorial Council was created by Congress in 1980 to lead the nation in civic commemorations and to encourage appropriate Remembrance observances throughout the country.