Remembering the Holocaust

The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will host the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, Jan. 29 at 3 p.m. Renowned author and educator, Matthew Rozell, will be the guest speaker. He will share the story behind his book "A Train Near Magdeburg." Rozell will be joined by children of liberators. 

His book will be available for purchase and signing opportunities will be available. 

"A Train Near Magdeburg" tells the story about how two tank commanders of the 743rd Tank Battalion and their major overran a train transport near Magdeburg, Germany, on April 13th, 1945. The train was filled with 2,500 Jewish concentration camp victims from Bergen-Belsen. This set into motion a chain of events that would culminate in survivors and liberators being reunited six decades later by a dedicated educator and reflecting on what happened.

Rozell's presentation will touch on his efforts to reunite his Holocaust survivor friends with their actual American soldier liberators, but more importantly will focus on the moral lessons imparted by the soldiers' actions in those closing days of World War II, and the disturbing underlying question of the Holocaust-just how did humanity allow six million Jews to be murdered?