The Pitt News ‘WE CAN CREATE A BETTER WORLD’:

Donata Massimiani Senior Staff Writer

When Bulgaria joined the Axis alliance in World War II, Holocaust survivor Albert Farhy heard a strange noise outside the apartment he lived in with his family in Bulgaria. He soon realized the noise came from a lot of people marching through the streets, shouting the phrase “Death to the Jews, Death to America.”

“The fear that I felt, I never in my life felt again,” Farhy said. “I was feeling that this is the end, they are coming here to kill us.”

Hillel at Pitt, Zachor, Chabad at Pitt and Alpha Epsilon Pi teamed up to host two days of Holocaust remembrance programming in honor of Yom HaShoah. They concluded Monday’s events with a conversation with Farhy at the Hillel Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh in Oakland. During the conversation, Farhy discussed his experience as a teenager living in Bulgaria during the Holocaust and answered questions from attendees.

Ilan Gordon, a sophomore exercise science major and co-president of Zachor, said it’s important to remember the victims of the Holocaust and their stories in order to “never let something similar ever happen again.” He said Zachor strives to end antisemitism one post, one meeting, one event and one story at a time.

“With your help, we can create a better world for everyone with less bigotry, racism and hate,” Gordon said.

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