01/31/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/31/2025 02:05
Dr. Barry Jackisch, an associate professor of history and Philip Markowicz Endowed Professor for Judaism and Jewish Biblical Studies, was recently invited to serve as the keynote speaker for a Holocaust remembrance event at the Ohio Statehouse on Monday, Jan. 27.
Jan. 27 marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day and is based on the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland in 1945. This year marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of this largest Nazi camp and the end of World War II overall.
Dr. Barry Jackisch, an associate professor of history and Philip Markowicz Endowed Professor for Judaism and Jewish Biblical Studies, delivers the keynote at a podium at the Ohio Statehouse on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Jackisch appeared on a program with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, Gen. Deborah Ashenhurst, director of the Ohio Department of Veterans Services, and Andrea Brookover, director of the Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission, as well as local community members and several families of Ohio Holocaust survivors.
Jackisch spoke on the importance of a continued commitment to Holocaust remembrance in Ohio and around the world, and also the value of teaching the subject in Ohio schools and Universities.
"I was honored to be included in this important event," he said. "As the horrors of the Holocaust and World War II fade further into the past, it is more important than ever to teach this history, remember the victims and honor the survivors and their families."
A crowd of about 90 people attended the event, which began indoors, then moved outside to finish at the Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial.
Watch Jackisch's keynote speech via this video online.