Kristallnacht Interfaith Commemoration

A Kristallnacht Interfaith Commemoration will be helped at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 10 at Page Hall on the University at Albany downtown campus, 135 Western Avenue. 

The evening will include a presentation of The Rescuers, the inspiring documentary about non-Jewish diplomats who helped save thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.
 
From the flyer: 
The Rescuers joins Holocaust historian Sir Martin Gilbert and Rwandan anti-genocide activist Stephanie Nyombayire with Emmy winning director Michael King. They travel to 15 countries and three continents to explore the “mystery of goodness”-- that characteristic in people who make morally correct decisions when facing genocide, despite the risk to themselves and their families. Stephanie Nyombayire, who lost 100 members of her family in the Rwandan genocide, and Sir Martin Gilbert, who, as a child, was evacuated during the Battle of Britain and lost many of his family in the Holocaust, provide a unique counterbalance of generations.
The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by: Holocaust Survivors & Friends Education Center, Community Relations Council of Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York, and Judaic Studies program at the University at Albany.

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