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Rollins College will be holding a Yom HaShoah memorial, titled Never Again: A Commemoration of the Holocaust (Yom HaShoah). It will be on April 8 from 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

The event will include student speakers, a reading by a published poet, the lighting of yahrzeit candles, a recitation of the Kaddish and another Jewish prayer, the reading of children’s names who were in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and a moment of silence.

The event is being sponsored by Rollins Hillel, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, the Education Department, and the Jewish Studies Program.

Community members are invited to join in virtually. Those interested can RSVP to Emily Block, associate director of Jewish Life at Rollins College, at eblock@rollins.edu for the link to the event.