Remember - International Holocaust Remembrance Day Event at The Laboratory Theater of Florida

In honor of Holocaust Remembrance, the Laboratory Theater of Florida is holding Remember, a community event at 7 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 27.

Remember is a Holocaust remembrance program inspired and designed to remember those lost in the Holocaust as well as to inspire understanding and unity. Holocaust Remembrance memorializes the estimated 12 million people six million Jews and other people murdered in the Holocaust as well as the heroism of the survivors and rescuers.

For this year’s observance, Lab Theater is inviting diverse members of the Southwest Florida community to come together to pay respects to the Holocaust victims in a show of support and mutual understanding for the steep cost of hate, indifference, and fear.

Speakers and readers will include clergy, Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz of the Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida Fort Myers, Imam Mohammed Al-Darsani, a Muslim religious and interfaith leader for Southwest Florida, Dr. Robert Hilliard, a WWII liberator and rescuer, Holocaust survivor Peter Seminauer, Flo Giltman, a second-generation Holocaust survivor and member of Gen Shoah of SWFL, Shalom Life Center musicians Chuck and Diane Coffman, Earl Sparrow, a Fort Myers music teacher and community advocate, LGBTQ community member Rachel Kaci Davis, Fort Myers resident Rosemary Allen, Canterbury School student Amelia Smith and other community members.

Sharing Holocaust remembrance with diverse members of the community will help us to see the shared struggles and commonalities between us as humans as well as build unity and foster understanding of our differences.

“If we are to truly honor the memory of the Holocaust victims and help stop ongoing and future genocidal atrocities we must be able to see the pain and effects of hatred on all members of the human family,” said Ella Nayor, Laboratory Theater of Florida Holocaust and Human Rights Education Outreach Director.

The use of instrumental music, song, and special lighting will allow patrons and guests the opportunity to better understand the importance of honoring the memories of those murdered, as well as the need to educate each new generation so to help prevent another Holocaust from happening again.

Join us for a night of remembrance, unity and connection on Monday, Jan. 27. at 7 pm. Tickets are on sale now for $10, and donations will be collected for the Lab’s Holocaust and Human Rights Education to further the work of human rights education in our community. For tickets, call 239.218.0481.