Tag: Holocaust

Stortz: “We must acknowledge and learn from our history”

by KCAW News | Aug 28, 2017 | Commentary

During WWII, Libby Stortz's father was in the 89th Battalion when he and his fellow infantrymen in the Engineering Corps were among the first group of soldiers to liberate Nazi concentration camps. She talks about his memories and lessons learned from the past. Read More

‘Never again’

by Rachel Waldholz, KCAW | Apr 29, 2014 | The CorvidEYE

Monday, April 28th, was Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah. About thirty people gathered in Sitka’s Totem Square in a light rain as St. Michael’s Cathedral tolled its bells. Residents paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust, but also remembered more recent genocides, in Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia -- and spoke about the struggle to keep the vow that came out of the ashes of World War II: never again. Read More