Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference

04/01/2026

This year marks 45 years of work by the Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Committee to remember the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, to educate the community about the past and its legacies, and to advocate for human rights around the world today. To celebrate the occasion, we are sponsoring an exhibit of all the original posters that were created to publicize our annual conferences since 1982. This exhibit at the Tippecanoe Arts Federation will be on display from April 3 to April 24. Entitled A Community Remembers and Responds, the exhibit includes original art work by Purdue faculty and students. 📍 Tippecanoe Arts Federation
🗓 On view: April 3 – April 24
Opening Reception: April 3 at 6:00 PM

Visit the TAF gallery weekdays (9 AM – 5 PM) from April 6 through April 24.

04/04/2024

Please join us tonight at 6 p.m. in the West Lafayette Public Library to hear from Mr. Tibor Klopfer, a second generation survivor of the Holocaust.

"I present stories of my family’s experiences as Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust. My mother, Manci, was deported from a ghetto in rural Hungary to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was moved to an industrial slave labor camp and ultimately was liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration near Hannover, Germany. My father, Michael, was processed through Auschwitz
and worked in forced labor camps before being liberated from Dachau, near Munich, Germany. He lost all his immediate family, including his first wife and two young daughters. My Uncle Alex, my mother’s youngest brother, thirteen years of age at the beginning of the war, witnessed the devastation of his family and survived a whirlwind of farm and industrial forced labor camps before being liberated from an Austrian factory camp. With family photos, maps and other illustrations, their stories and the stories of other family members put human faces on historical events and provide a perspective on the Holocaust that transcends sterile renditions of dates, events and statistics."

03/18/2024

43rd Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference

Preventing Evil - What Can We Do?
● Remember ● Connect ● Educate ● Learn ●

April 4 - 21, 2024

Spring Calendar of Events

Tibor Klopfer: A Personal History from the Holocaust in Hungary
April 4, 6:00 pm, West Lafayette Public Library

A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
In collaboration with WALLA
April 8, 6:30 pm, West Lafayette Public Library

Candle Lighting Ceremony
April 14, 6:30 pm, Temple Israel

James Waller: Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide
April 16, 5:30 pm, Fowler Hall, Purdue University

And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank
April 21, 2:00 pm, McCutcheon High School

03/11/2024

Thursday, April 4, 2024, 6:00 PM EDT
West Lafayette Public Library

Presenting Tibor Klopfer: Family Stories about The Holocaust Years in Hungary.

01/10/2024

A musical tribute to Anne Frank on January 20 at 7:30 at Butler University:

Exploring the people, composers, and literature silenced by N**i Germany, Silenced Voices, features a world premiere commission by Victoria Bond, “Anne Frank’s Tree.” Through a musical meditation on Anne’s Tree as a symbol of hope, Bond connects audiences to the sapling of Anne’s tree that...