JAX STATE HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE TO PROMOTE EDUCATION, REFLECTION, AND COMMUNITY DIALOGUE

JACKSONVILLE, Ala., Feb. 23 -- Jacksonville State University issued the following news release:

By Brett Buckner



For more than four decades, Jacksonville State University has gathered students, educators, and community members to remember one of history's darkest chapters - and to ensure its lessons are not forgotten. Since 1982, Jax State's Annual Holocaust Remembrance has stood as one of the longest-running university-led Holocaust education programs in Alabama andremainsone of only three such programs hosted by a university in the state.

This year's event is April 14, at 7 p.m. in the Merrill Hall Auditorium, room B10. The remembrance will include keynote speaker JamesSedlis, who is the son of two Holocaust survivors.Sedliswill shar...