HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE PROGRAM

INSTILLING LEADERSHIP IN YOUNG ADULTS

CHAIR: Cody Hoover

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The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims - six million were murdered; Gypsies, the handicapped, and Poles were also targeted for destruction or discrimination for racial, ethnic, or national reasons.  Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny.

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In order to remind our young people of the devastating effects that occur when one group of people claim dominance over another, and to develop brotherhood, change the negative attitudes toward ethnic bias and prejudice and to promote individual and group dignity, "Lycoming County Brotherhood Alliance" sponsors an annual trip to experience the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.  The Museum's primary mission is to advance and disseminate knowledge about this unprecedented tragedy; to preserve the memory of those who suffered; and to encourage its visitors to reflect upon the moral and spiritual questions raised by the events of the Holocaust as well as their own responsibilities as citizens of a democracy.