Topeka to host annual Kansas Holocaust Commemoration
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Community members from across the sunflower state will gather in Topeka Monday for the annual Kansas Holocaust Commemoration.
The commemoration pays tribute to the lives lost and the lives lived of all who suffered through the holocaust.
Those set to attend include Senators Dietrich and Corson, Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt, students and faculty from local schools, and keynote speaker Lindsay McNeil - a historian at the US Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.
One member of the clergy explains the importance for leaders and citizens in Kansas to remember the key lessons from this tragedy.
“The holocaust exemplifies what can happen when hatred, when bigotry, when majoritarian oppression is visited upon those who can’t defend themselves within a society," Temple Beth Sholom Rabbi Samuel Stern said. "We don’t put on these commemorations because things are necessarily bad for us here in this moment, but things could be bad somewhere else. There’s a lesson we can pick up on.”
Monday's commemoration is open to all in the Kansas community. It begins at the Topeka Civic Theatre at 1 p.m.