Holocaust Education Center kicks off annual campaign

The Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center kicked off its Annual Campaign in July with a fundraiser at Ledgemont Country Club. The focus of this year’s campaign is to maintain truth when teaching the Holocaust in Rhode Island schools.

It is easy to revise the truth or deny the Holocaust never happened. Dwight D. Eisenhower told the troops when they liberated the camps to write down everything they saw and take as many pictures as possible, for a day would come when people would say the Holocaust never happened.

According to The History Place (historyplace.com), approximately 3,546,211 survived at war’s end in 1945. Time Magazine in July 2016 reported that there are 100,000 Jewish survivors of camps, ghettos and in hiding under Nazi occupation still alive in 2016.

As time moves forward, we are losing people who were there and remember what happened.

In June 2017, the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center will host The Jewish Motorcycle Alliance, an international organization that raises funds for a Holocaust institution each year with a “Ride 2 Remember.”  In addition to the ride, several events are being planned for this three-day gathering. Proceeds will go toward setting up an endowment which will generate funds needed for the new technology to provide Holocaust survivor stories as told by holograms. To view this technology, go to YouTube and type in hologram Holocaust Survivor.