Holocaust Service

At Fairfield University

FAIRFIELD — The Judaic Studies Program at Fairfield University will host a Holocaust Remembrance Service on Monday, May 1, at 5 pm, in the university’s Egan Chapel of St Ignatius Loyola.

Guest speaker will be Hilde M. Scheraga of Stamford, the president of Holocaust Child Survivors of Connecticut (HCSC).

During World War II, thousands of Jewish children were sent from their homes to escape death at the hands of the Nazis. Most were hidden by strangers who risked death themselves if caught helping Jews.

At age eight, Ms Scheraga, traveled on a kindertransport from Germany to Brussels, Belgium, where she was hidden in a state-run orphanage for the duration of the war. She will tell her story at the service.

The Holocaust Remembrance Service, co-sponsored by the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies, Fairfield University’s Campus Ministry and KADIMA, the university’s Jewish student organization, is free and open to the public. For more information call 203/254-4000, extension 2066.