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At the Holocaust Museum Susan Suarez President & CEO CREDIT: DELL RIVER IMAGERY
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ast month’s “Triumph of Courage” annual fundraising event was a great success! Thank you to all our event sponsors and guests for your support of this special evening benefiting our Holocaust education programs. Our special guest, General Roméo Dallaire, spoke movingly of his experiences protecting Tutsi citizens during the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. He is a true hero who, after being ordered to leave the country, stayed behind with some of his soldiers because they felt morally responsible to those who sought the protection of U.N. troops as the genocide was underway. He also spoke about his work to prevent children from being taken as soldiers as well as other humanitarian issues around the world. We had another special guest join us for Triumph — Kizito Kalima, a survivor of the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. His organization, the Peace Center for Forgiveness and Reconciliation, provided us with the current special exhibit, “The History of Rwanda in Ten Pictures” (see the description on page 18).
Rwandan blue basket and carved cane Susan Suarez and speakers on stage When he heard General Roméo Dallaire medicine, and chief of critical care at a was our event guest speaker, he decided southern New Jersey hospital. to attend. Mr. Kalima spoke for a few His lecture was on the “Physicians’ minutes before General Dallaire took the Role during the Period of the Holostage. Following the General’s remarks, caust.” Some topics covered included the they joined together to answer questions physicians’ trial at Nuremberg and Nazi from the audience. physicians’ experiments in concentraWe were privileged to witness this tion camps, the Tokyo war crimes trial powerful event with both a genocide and Japanese physicians’ experiments on survivor and upstander present. These POWs, the U.S. medical experiments remarkable individuals truly embodied involving humans around WWII and a the event’s “Triumph of Courage” theme. discussion of contemporary medical ethics in a challenging world
Doctors’ tour and lecture
The Museum recently hosted Collier County Medical Society members for a tour and a lecture presented by Stuart Mest, M.D. Dr. Mest is a Museum Board member, docent and educator. He was a pulmonary and critical care physician who served as chairman, department of
Special exhibition
April is Genocide Awareness Month, and the Museum has a special exhibit highlighting the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. We invite you to visit the Estelle and Stuart Price Gallery, continued on page 18
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