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Rep. Lawrence will replace the council seat held by the late Rep. John Lewis.
U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence (MI-14) was appointed March 4 by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to serve on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.
Lawrence, founder and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations, will replace the council seat held by the late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis.
The council was established by Congress in 1980 to lead the nation in commemorating the Holocaust and to raise private funds to construct the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Once the Museum opened in 1993, the council became the governing board of trustees of the museum, an independent establishment of the government operating as a public-private partnership that receives some federal funding to support operations of the museum building.
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Holocaust survivors’ stories are focus of West Linn author’s latest children’s book
Updated Mar 14, 2021;
Posted Mar 04, 2021
Deborah Hopkinson s new book is a companion to last year s We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport. Author photo by Melissa Hill/Courtesy of Scholastic
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“Why us?” Chella Kryszek wondered, long after the horror was over. Why did she and her sister survive? “Surely we were no better than anybody else. Surely we were no stronger than anybody else.”
But survive they did, and Kryszek spent the rest of her life telling young people about her experiences as a Jewish teen during the Holocaust.