Metro Digest || Ghetto Fighters’ leader to speak

Ghetto Fighters’ leader to speak

YOUNGSTOWN

Rami Hochman, general director of the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, will speak at noon March 24 at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor on West Wood Street.

Sponsored by the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies at YSU, the public lecture is free. Youngstown will be one of the stops on Hochman’s monthlong lecture tour thoughout the U.S.

Founded in 1949 as the first museum worldwide to honor the memory of Holocaust survivors, the Ghetto Fighters’ House – Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum — operates in Western Galilee, Israel. It was started by a community of Holocaust survivors, Jewish underground members and veterans of partisan units who wanted to tell the story of their heritage and struggles. Permanent and rotating exhibitions along with educational activities and programs are offered year-round.

For more information, contact the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies at 330-941-1604.

Soil-district report

YOUNGSTOWN

The public can view the 2010 annual financial report of the Mahoning Soil & Water Conservation District during regular business hours from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the office, 850 Industrial Road, on the city’s West Side.

Buhl Park cleanup

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Buhl Farm Park will have its annual cleanup day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 9. Volunteers will register at the pool house, and refreshments will be served throughout the day. Bring gloves and a rake.

Students who need community-service credits are encouraged to attend. In case of inclement weather, April 30 will be the alternate date. For more information, call 724-981-5522, ext. 103.