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BSC to host Yom HaShoah Commemoration, A Holocaust Remembrance Day

Published: Apr 21 2022
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Bismarck State College (BSC), in partnership with the North Dakota National Guard and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, will host a Yom HaShoah Commemoration Holocaust Remembrance Day event on Tuesday, April 26 at 12 p.m. (CST). The event will honor the community’s victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Dina Butcher, whose parents fled Nazi Germany in 1939, will be the event speaker. 
 
Butcher’s father survived the notorious Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Germany. Her grandmother, three aunts, an uncle and two cousins were exterminated in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. In recent years, Dina has been telling her family's tragic story and warning against the possibility of similar atrocities.
 
The event will also feature a memorial candle lighting and remarks from BSC President Doug Jensen, Brigadier General Jackie Huber of the North Dakota National Guard, and Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas Steve Hunegs. Music will be provided by the Bismarck State College Music department.
 
This event is open to the public and will be held at the BSC National Energy Center for Excellence, Bavendick Stateroom, 1200 Schafer St., Bismarck, N.D. A live stream of the commemoration will be available at bismarckstate.edu/livestream.