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Rabbi Mike Stevens speaks during Central Carolina Community College’s sixth-annual Holocaust Remembrance
held on Feb. 28 at the Dennis A. Wicker Civic & Conference Center.

CCCC hosts Holocaust

Remembrance program

Six million Jewish people were killed by Nazis during the Ho- That was the idea behind “The Story of My Mother: Klara
locaust, a scale of carnage that can be hard to grasp. If you read Mermelstein,” an hour-long talk focusing on Judy’s mother,
the victims’ names, one every 15 seconds, it would take nearly who survived the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration
three years to call the roll. camp. It was presented for Central Carolina Community Col-
lege’s sixth-annual Holocaust Remembrance, held on February
But numbers alone don’t capture the human toll. So, Rabbi 28 at the Dennis A. Wicker Civic & Conference Center.
Mike and Judy Stevens have another suggestion: Listen to Standing in front of a large screen displaying photos of her an-
Holocaust survivors and their families. Hear their stories. And cestors and stories about their close-knit family, Judy recount-
consider the lessons they learned. ed her mother’s experience as a young woman, in her early

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