CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait – In addition to listening to soldiers and assisting them with filing formal and informal complaints, equal opportunity leaders and advisers conduct prevention of sexual harassment and consideration of others training.
For special events such as black history month, women’s history month, and Holocaust Remembrance, just to name a few, the equal opportunity community holds observances.
Since the 230th Sustainment Brigade has been here, there have been two of these such observances
The first was during women’s history month which was celebrated with a cake-cutting ceremony March 31, 2011. The guest speaker for the event was the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait Deborah K. Jones. The second event was the Holocaust Day of Remembrance.
On May 2, the EO community had an observance for the Holocaust Day of Remembrance in which there were photos from the Holocaust museum and movies about the Holocaust.
This year’s theme was “Justice and Accountability in the Face of Genocide: What Have We Learned?” The exhibit from the museum was held at the training and activity center building in Zone 6.
Why a Holocaust Remembrance?
After the horrors of the Holocaust, Jews wanted a day to memorialize this tragedy. But what day?
No specific day stood out as a representation of this destruction. The Holocaust spanned years, with suffering and death spread throughout these years of terror. Included in this span was the Warsaw ghetto uprising. In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom Hashoah. In 1950, the 27th of Nissan, the first month in the Jewish calendar, was chosen as a day of remembrance, which falls beyond Passover but within the time span of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
Orthodox Jews still did not like this date because it was a day of mourning within the traditionally happy month of Nissan. As a final effort to compromise, the Jewish community decided if the 27th of Nissan would affect Shabbat, which falls on Friday or Saturday, it would move the observation. For example, if the 27th of Nissan falls on a Friday, Holocaust Remembrance Day is moved to the preceding Thursday. If the 27th of Nissan falls on a Sunday, then Holocaust Remembrance Day is moved to the following Monday.
On April 26, 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened to the public in Washington, D.C. In general, Yom Hashoah is observed with candlelight, speakers, poems, prayers, and singing or with museum exhibits -- like the one that was held here at Camp Arifjan.
About 90 service members and DOD civilians visited the museum, with soldiers from the 230th accounting for almost 50 percent of those in attendance.
Among the attendees was Maj. Gen. Harold Gary Bunch, the U.S. Army Materiel Command's assistant deputy commanding general for Reserve Affairs since May 19, 2009.
| Date Taken: | 05.02.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 05.13.2011 06:00 |
| Story ID: | 70307 |
| Location: | CAMP ARIFJAN, KW |
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