{"id":61959,"date":"2011-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/flag-planting-pays-tribute-to-holocaust-victims\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"flag-planting-pays-tribute-to-holocaust-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/04\/flag-planting-pays-tribute-to-holocaust-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag planting pays tribute to Holocaust victims"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 28, 2011 \u2013 Always Remember. Never Forget.<\/p>\n


\nThat was the message being delivered by members of the äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Hillel Center as they planted flags outside the Multicultural Center Wednesday in remembrance of Holocaust victims. Each of the hundreds of flags planted represented 5,000 people who died during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cPlanting the flags is a significant gesture, because it is so hard for many people today to truly grasp just how many people were affected by the Holocaust,\u201d said freshman Lily Nieto.<\/p>\n


\nMore than six million Jewish people were killed during World War II at the hands of Nazi Germany. The genocide resulted in death for more than two-thirds of the European Jewish population. <\/p>\n


\nAs part of the planting, there were flags of different colors planted, with each color representing different groups impacted. Flags representing 3.3 million Soviets, 2 million Polish people, 400,000 gypsies and other groups were planted.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cA lot of people don\u2019t realize that it was not just Jews who were killed,\u201d Nieto said.<\/p>\n


\nJunior Josh Einhorn, who served as the student chair for the center\u2019s Holocaust Remembrance Week events<\/a>, said it was important to encourage inquiry into events such as the flag planting.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe do this every year so that people will stop and ask, \u2018Why?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cIt helps spread an understanding of the Holocaust and how it continues to impact so many people today.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nOver the summer, Einhorn spent 10 days visiting various sites in Israel as part of his birthright. Among his stops was Yad Vashem, a Holocaust memorial. One of the this he brought back from that visit was the idea to have students taking turns reading names of Holocaust victims out loud as the flags were planted. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe are just using one binder of the victim\u2019s names today,\u201d Einhorn said. \u201cEach time they read the list (in Israel), it takes several weeks of saying the names non-stop until they reach the end of the list, and then start over.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAnother exhibit he came across was a pile of children\u2019s shoes that the visitors had to walk over. The shoes represented all of the children killed in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt was eye opening,\u201d Einhorn said. \u201cThere were enough shoes to pile up to the ceiling of any average room. When you realize those were the children killed, it adds a whole new perspective.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 28, 2011 \u2013 Always Remember. Never Forget. That was the message being delivered by members of the äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Hillel Center as they planted flags outside the Multicultural Center Wednesday in remembrance of Holocaust victims. Each of the hundreds of flags planted represented 5,000 people who died during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}