Front Porch: EvCC presents talks on Holocaust remembrance

Published 8:28 pm Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Holocaust talks

Everett Community College’s annual Holocaust Survivor Forums begin Wednesday, which is Holocaust Remembrance Day. The four talks are free and open to the public. Sessions are 12:20-1:20 p.m. in Whitehorse Hall, Room 105, on the campus at 2000 Tower St. in Everett.

Wednesday: Henry Friedman was a teen in Poland when his family, helped by Ukrainian friends, hid from the Nazis for 18 months.

April 29: Peter Metzelaar and his mother were hidden, through the Dutch underground, on a farm, in a cave, and in a home in The Hague.

May 13: Robert Herschkowitz retraces a childhood journey from his Belgian homeland to a French concentration camp, and over the Alps by foot to Switzerland.

May 27: Eva Tannenbaum Cummins will perform her play about the effects of Adolf Hitler’s destruction before she and her mother were able to flee Germany.

You can help: A silent auction fundraiser for Arlington resident Nicole Thompson is set for 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday at the Arlington Boys &Girls Club, 18513 59th Ave. NE. Thompson was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. The event features food and games, and there are more than 50 gift baskets to bid on including restaurant and spa certificates, a cord of wood and a weekend getaway. There also is a Seahawks basket being raffled.

Edgewater Beach opening: The public is invited to a ribbon cutting at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday to celebrate the opening of a road providing access to Edgewater Beach in Mukilteo.

To get there, take West Mukilteo Boulevard to Mukilteo Lane west to Mount Baker Avenue, cross the railroad tracks and turn right on First Street.