Genocide Survivors Speak at Xavier University Holocaust Survivor
David Gewirtzman and Rwandan Genocide Survivor Eugenie
Mukeshimana will share their stories in a lecture called,
“Survivor Soulmates” on Tuesday, April 13 at 7 pm in Bellarmine
Chapel on the Xavier University campus. This event is free and
open to all. In the Talmud it is written, “Whoever saves a
single life, saves an entire universe.” Over sixty years ago
Europe was engulfed in violence, terror, and unimaginable horror
as the Jewish communities were arrested and slaughtered during
the Holocaust. Many neighbors chose to ignore the suffering. It
was easier to be indifferent. Food and other resources were
scarce. If they were caught helping Jews, they faced arrest and
possibly execution. Yet, a courageous minority risked their
lives out of compassion for their fellow man by hiding their
Jewish friends, neighbors, and sometimes strangers, from the
Nazis. Fifty years after the Holocaust, a few brave neighbors
and strangers once again took a stand a