Virginia Tech students share stories of ancestors who died, survived the Holocaust Roses with a note saying #weremember , are placed on the Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (Source: Markus Schreiber) By Katey Roshetko | April 10, 2021 at 11:59 AM EDT - Updated April 10 at 11:59 AM
BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - Beginning at 9 a.m. Friday morning, students, faculty, staff and members of the community will be reading the names of all those who died in the Holocaust.
For some students, the tribute is very personal.
“My grandmother and her side of the family are all from Kastoria,” Samantha Levy said. “Which is a very small textile town in northern Greece. And everyone there ended up going to the camps.”