This year’s ceremony will include readings, music and memorial candle lighting, along with a presentation by Beverly Nagel Ellis of Des Moines, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, who was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany. Beverly will reflect on her family’s survival of the Holocaust and their experiences after the end of World War II. She will share photographs taken by her brother in the DP camp as well as artifacts related to her family’s experiences. Organized by the UNI Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education, co-sponsored by Sons of Jacob Synagogue and Catholic Parishes of Waterloo.
The Museum will be open to the public before and after the presentation from 5-9PM. The ceremony and touring the Museum (either before or after) is free and open to the public.