HOLOCAUST VICTIMS TO BE REMEMBERED 
	THROUGH MEMORIAL SERVICE, SPEAKERS, 24-HOUR VIGIL

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 5 -- University of Virginia
students will join thousands of people around the world in
remembering the victims of Nazism during Yom HaShoah, Holocaust
Memorial Day.  The U.Va. program will begin on Monday, April 15, at
7 p.m. in Gilmer Hall Auditorium with an annual memorial service,
followed by two local guest speakers, Fred Hoffman and Kathleen
Phalen.
	Following the speakers, students will walk to the front of
University Chapel and participate in a 24-hour vigil.  They will
take part in "Unto Every Person There is a Name," a program in which
the names of the Holocaust victims are read publicly.  The vigil
will run from sundown April 15 to sundown April 16 and is part of a
worldwide ceremony to remember victims.
	"'Unto Every Person There is a Name' restores some dignity
to those who were stripped of their identities and robbed of their
lives," said Tommy Baer, international president of B'nai B'rith,
which is coordinating the program in the United States.  "We
remember the six million Jewish victims each year by reading as many
names in as many communities as possible.  Sadly, the Nazis killed
so many and tried so hard to obliterate any memory, that even this
effort is insufficient to recall every victim."
	The U.Va. program is sponsored by the Hillel Jewish Center
and B'nai B'rith and is open to all who are interested.
	To participate in the program or gain more information,
contact Michael Pincus at the Hillel Jewish Center, (804) 296-7349.
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April 4, 1996
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