UWF will host the first annual Holocaust Remembrance Event on Jan. 26, 2023, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the UWF CFPA, Building 82, Rolfs Music Hall.

The event's purpose is to remind students and the community about the harm associated with hate and how we have to combat antisemitism and all other hate in a proactive and vocal manner.

The event will feature various speakers from across campus, reading of names from family members who perished in the Holocaust, lighting memorial candles, a somber musical interlude and sharing a Righteous Among the Nations bio.

Dr. Leon Chameides will be the evening's presenter (via Zoom) and invite the audience into question and answer. Chameides was born on June 24, 1935, in Katowice, Poland. With the German invasion of Poland, Leon's family fled eastward and settled near Soviet-occupied Lwów, Poland (present-day L'viv, Ukraine).

The event is co-sponsored by the UWF College of Education and Professional Studies; UWF College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities; the UWF Office of Diversity and Inclusion; Pensacola Jewish Federation; Temple Beth El of Pensacola; Bnai Israel Synagogue; and Chabad of Pensacola. Light refreshments will be served after the event.