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Discuss “Students remember Holocaust”

Imagine having an event equal to the magnitude of September 11 occur every day for five and a half years.

Rachel Goykhman, a first-year BHA major and social vice president of the Hillel Jewish University Center, cites this example as the best way to comprehend how over six million Jews were exterminated in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Last week, Goykhman and other members of Hillel commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Week, which coincided with the 60th anniversary of the Allied liberation of concentration camps.

According to current Pittsburgh resident and Holocaust survivor Fritz Ottenheimer, ?liberation? wasn?t as idealistic as many contemporaries make it out to be.

?When we?re talking liberation, we?re talking the liberation...

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