Black River Technical College, in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, annually hosts the BRTC Holocaust Survivor Series. This important event allows a survivor of the Holocaust to share their experiences with our community.

Survivors provide first-hand accounts of their struggles while personally experiencing the atrocities of the Holocaust. Past survivors have been held prisoner in concentration camps, others have been imprisoned in the Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Still, others have related their stories of being refugees to countries including France, Switzerland, and the United States.

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire.” The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jews, deemed “inferior,” were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.

2026 Presentation

You can read more about Ernest "Ernie" Brod at ushmm.org.

Presentation Dates and Times

The virtually broadcast presentations will be held as follows;

• Wednesday, October 28 – RCDC BRTC Campus viewing or by Login – 9:30 a.m.;
• Thursday, October 29 – Login Only – 5:30 p.m.

Registration

All attendees must register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZXHYQQV.

Sponsors

We are grateful to the BRTC Foundation for sponsoring the Annual Holocaust Survivor Series!

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