The annual Holocaust: Learn & Remember series opens Thursday at Central Library with a presentation on a little-known forced labor camp.
SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Public Library and the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio will kick off their annual Holocaust: Learn & Remember series Thursday evening with a special opening event at the Central Library.
The 14th annual series begins Thursday, January 8, at 7 p.m. inside the Central Library auditorium, located at 600 Soledad Street downtown.
The opening presentation, titled “The Unknown Story of Karya’s Forced Labor Camp,” will be led by author Andreas Assael and second-generation Holocaust survivor Jerome Cohen. The discussion focuses on the little-known forced labor camp in Greece and the decades-long investigation that uncovered its history.
Assael, the son of a Jewish survivor, began researching Karya after purchasing a photograph at a flea market in Germany, a discovery that ultimately led him to survivor Sam Cohen, Jerome Cohen’s father.
This year’s Holocaust: Learn & Remember theme, Judgment, explores survivor stories, the prosecution of Nazi leaders during the Nuremberg Trials, and the idea that accountability is possible even for the most powerful.
The annual series is held in observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and honors the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.