Black River Technical College, in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, annually hosts the BRTC Holocaust Survivor Series.

This important event brings a survivor of the Holocaust to BRTC’s campus in Pocahontas. Presentations are free and open to the public.

Survivors provide first-hand accounts of their struggles while personally experiencing the atrocities of the Holocaust.  Past survivors have been held prisoner in concentration camps, others have been imprisoned in the Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland.  Still, others have related their stories of being refugees to countries including France, Switzerland, and the United States.

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire.” The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jews, deemed “inferior,” were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.

Presentation Dates and Times

The Holocaust survivor presentations will be held as follows.  These will be virtual presentations through Zoom.

• Tuesday, October 29 — RCDC BRTC Campus – Bromberg & Goldfarb – 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Tuesday, October 29 — Virtual – Goldfarb – 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Wednesday, October 30 — RCDC BRTC Campus – Bromberg & Goldfarb – 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, October 30 — Virtual – Goldfarb – 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Registration

Attendees may register immediately for a slot.  Each presentation may accommodate a maximum of 300 screens.

• 1 screen may be an individual person’s video link
• 1 screen may be a classroom link where an entire class watches from one computer connection

Sponsors

We are grateful to our sponsors of this year’s Holocaust Survivor Series!

• BRTC Foundation
• First National Bank of Walnut Ridge, Hoxie, Pocahontas, and Bono
• Brett and Karen Liebhaber
• Ken and Dr. Jan Ziegler

FAQs

Who can attend?
The presentations are open to the public.  Anyone can attend.

How much are the presentations?
There is no cost to attend the presentations.