Discuss “Students recall genocide of both past and present”

For those walking along the Cut last week, the three series of signs detailing the experiences of Holocaust victims were hard to miss. The signs were intended to bring people on campus together in remembering their collective past. The organization of the event itself was collective — the signs and all the memoirs and facts that were on them were a result of the first year of collaboration between the Hillel Jewish University Center (JUC) of Pittsburgh, Amnesty International, and Allies, Carnegie Mellon’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) student organization.

Every year, the JUC organizes events on campus to commemorate the tragic events of the Holocaust, which took the lives of approximately nine to 11 million Jews and non-Jews...