"Make the Links: The Holocaust, Racism and Genocide" - Lani Silver, Holocaust Oral Historian and Activist to Speak at Gallaudet University
The Multicultural Student Programs of Gallaudet remembers the Holocaust on Yom Hashoa. Ms. Silver, first (official) Holocaust consultant of Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation will speak on Thursday, April 6th at 12 Noon.
Washington, DC (PRWEB) April 5, 2006 -- Lani Silver, the noted Holocaust Oral Historian who has conducted l700 oral histories with Holocaust survivors over a twenty-five year period, will be giving a keynote speech entitled "Make the Links: The Holocaust, Racism and Genocide" at Gallaudet University on April 6th at noon in the Andrew Foster Auditorium.
Silver will talk discuss at length her work on Holocaust, including the oral histories and make the link between the Holocaust, genocide and racism. "It is an important that we keep show how the Holocaust, Genocide and Racism are intertwined", Lani Silver says emphatically, "The killing of ancestors and grandparents is happening now, on a daily basis. Many of us are witness to it. The people that I work for have seen it first-hand hapen to their very own family."
Silver now represents the James Byrd Jr. Foundation for Racial Healing. As you may recall, James Byrd Jr. was dragged through the streets of Jasper, Texas eight years ago, chained to a truck by three white supremacists. Silver directs the James Byrd Jr. Racism Oral History Project, a project of the Byrd Foundation for Racial Healing. The Project has now conducted l,935 interviews on the topic of racism in America. The interviews examine the affects of racism on the every day lives of Americans.
Silver founded one of the first Holocaust oral history projects in the country and was also Steven Spielberg's first consultant for his Holocaust oral history project, the Shoah Foundation for Visual History, (www.vhf.org), which conducted 53,000 oral histories. Silver also founded the Holocaust Oral History Project in 1981 which conducted l700 oral histories with Holocaust survivors and witnesses.
Ms. Silver also co-discovered the story of Chiune Sugihara, also known as the 'Japanese Schindler'. Sugihara saved thousands of Jewish people fleeing from Poland when he was the Consul General from Japan to Lithuania during World War II. He did this against the orders of the Japanese government. A documentary on the story aired on all PBS stations in April 2005.
Silver has won over twenty awards for her outstanding community service work. Most recently she was named "Woman of the Year" by KQED, San Francisco's public television and radio station and won the coveted "Ally" award from the Center for Healing Racism in Houston. (www.kqed.org/topics/history/heritage/women/heroes-lsilver.jsp)
Silver's speech at Gallaudet is on April 6 at 12:00 Noon.
For more information/interviews please contact:
1) HighVizPR, Abbe Buck, Publicist (Mobile/Page/Direct) (703) 629-3183. Lani Silver (Voice Mail) 4l5-665-4761.
NOTE TO EDITORS: Lani Silver will be in Washington, DC through April 6, 2005.
2) Elvia Guillermo, Coordinator of Multicultural Student Programs, Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Ave. N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-3695, Tel: 202-651-5465. 202-651-5465 TTY/VP
3) The Office of Public Relations at: Office of Public Relations, Gallaudet University, Phone: 202-651-5050 Fax: 202-651-5704
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