BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND:20190507T000000Z UID: 6807583438e2a DTSTAMP:20250422T034956Z LOCATION:Centennial Hall DESCRIPTION:Dr. Harold Kasimow\, Grinnell Å·ÖÞ±­ÍøÍ¶_Å·ÖÞ±­ÍâΧapp-Ͷע¹ÙÍø emeritus professor of religious studies\, will speak at the annual Yom HaShoah\, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is a commemoration for the approximately 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.\n\nHe spent 19 months and 5 days hiding from the Nazis in a pit underneath a barn in modern-day Belarus during the Holocaust. \;\n\nHe was only 3 when the German army took control of his home near what is now Vilnius\, Lithuania\, on July 2\, 1941. Kasimow stayed with his mother\, father\, and two sisters under German occupation until April 3\, 1942\, when a priest told the family about a massacre of Jews nearby. His family escaped and went into hiding. They managed to avoid the Nazis for more than seven years. \;\n\nOn Aug. 23\, 1949\, Kasimow and his family arrived in New York City.\n URL;VALUE=URI:/about-us/events/2019/holocaust-remembrance-day-dr-harold-kasimow SUMMARY:Holocaust Remembrance Day: Dr. Harold Kasimow DTSTART:20190507T000000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR