Students, community members and administrators have atttended
“The Courage to Remember,” a Holocaust visual narrative exibition
in the lower level of the University Student Union.
Esteban Cortez / The Collegian
“The Courage to Remember,” a Holocaust visual narrative exhibit, is visiting Fresno State to raise awareness.
The free exhibit is located on the lower level of the University Student Union. The exhibition panels will be on display from Sept. 23 to the 27.
“Our objective is to educate people of all ages and backgrounds so that future crimes of this nature are prevented,” said Ted Gover, executive director of Foundation for California. “Through this, we hope that if a group like this were to rise again, enough people would speak out and put a stop to it.”
The educational exhibit consists of 42 panels of what led to and what happened during the Holocaust from 1933 to 1945. This includes the history of the Nazi’s campaign, in which 6 million Jews were killed. Others were also killed including political dissidents, prisoners of war, homosexuals and the mentally disabled.
This exhibit was created by the Museum of Tolerance, which has been partnered with the Foundation for California for over 20 years. The Foundation for California is a non-profit educational corporation that provides educational programs on important issues to California.
“Not everyone can travel to the museum, so we try to take the heart of what they’re doing at the Museum of Tolerance and bring that on tour,” chairman of the board of Foundation for California Dr. Alfred Balitzer said.
Balitzer has personally taken the “The Courage to Remember” exhibit to Japan, where over 2 million people attended the exhibit. It has been seen all around the world, including cities in the United States and Europe.
This is the first time the exhibit has visited Fresno, made possible by the French National Railway (SNCF).
Over the next year, the Foundation for California is coordinating a statewide tour of this traveling exhibit.
“We are very happy to partner [with SNCF] in order to bring further Holocaust education to California,” Balitzer said. “Our goal is to provide very important lessons in tolerance, human understanding and to teach people what comes with hate.”
As a part of the Jewish community, Fresno State student Jenna Smith said she believes it is important to expose the Fresno community to the history of the Holocaust.
“History can repeat itself if it is not thoroughly understood,” Smith said. “There are genocides going on around the world currently and it is crucial that our generation gains exposure and knowledge of these events.”
The statewide tour of “The Courage to Remember” exhibit will be displayed at different universities, community colleges, houses of worship, shopping malls and possibly some high schools as well.
The exhibit is free to the public and runs from Sept. 23 to Sept. 26 and is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m, except for Tuesday, Sept. 27, when the exhibit is open from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
rodrigo de zubiria • Jul 16, 2012 at 11:36 am
the tragedy inflicted on the european jews by nazi germany is one of the human on human crimes almost without paralell in history and I am all for awarenes and learning the lesons of history. but I must it is particularly poignant that the jewish people are so vocal when it comes to holocaust rememberance and education yet deafeningly quiet when it comes to bringing up awarenes when it comes to the crimes Israel has inflicted on the palestinian people for the past 70 years. A crime which continues today with no end in sight. Yet not a word on that particularly from the jewish people.
I will attend holocaust events when I see at least one event to rise the awarenes of the suffering of the palestinian people.
Nathaniel Wenger • Sep 23, 2011 at 5:59 pm
“The Courage to Remember” Civilocity
I give you, Alejandra Garcia, civilocity. What you do with civilocity is your choice. I give you a world where the leader of a country can never again cover up genocide going on. Don’t make the same mistake twice and allow the leader of a country to cover up genocide going on.
Civilocity is a form of government where the people watch the ruler entirely amongst their reign. Don’t be against civilocity because if you are, you will be making the same mistake twice and allowing Omar al-Bashir, the leader of Sudan, to cover up genocide going on. Omar al-Bashir covers up genocide we will see what you cover up.
Civilocity is the one and only solution to make sure the leader of a country never again covers up genocide going on. Every single other way they fought genocide doesn’t work, including charity and the International Criminal Court, because genocide is still going on today. If you want to call genocide democide go ahead, it still resulted in over a million lives in the 20th century alone. Every other way to make sure the leader of a country is not covering up genocide going on doesn’t work and is wrong. Killing is wrong. Preaching peace is wrong. Civilocity is better than peace it works. A form of government where the people watch the ruler entirely amongst their reign.
Imagine a world where hitler could not have covered up genocide going on.
Recognize me for making a world where a leader of a country cannot cover up genocide going on.
Civilocity is a form of government where the people watch the ruler entirely amongst their reign. Democracy is a form of government where the people pick by majority who their leader is. Which form of government do you think is better?
Civilocity makes sure the leader of a country never again has the ability to cover up genocide going on. Do you want the leader of Sudan to cover up genocide tomorrow?
It is a choice if people want democracy so the leader of Sudan can cover up genocide tomorrow or if people want civilocity so the leader of Sudan can’t cover up genocide tomorrow? It is a true battle between civilocity and democracy yet knowing if there is law is more important, better, and intelligent than picking someone who says there is law? Do I spend a life fighting democracy in a democratic country? For the last four years, after writing civilocity at age 22, I have only begun to see the obstacles I will face challenging democracy and can only imagine the obstacles to come.
Below is my contact information to talk about civilocity above is a better form of government than democracy and monarchy.
Nathaniel Wenger
[email protected]
http://www.nathanielwenger.com
PS For over four years I can’t get a holocaust survivor to talk to me about civilocity, what use is it trying to get a newspaper to write an article on civilocity.