Holocaust event at YSU

Holocaust event at YSU

YOUNGSTOWN

Monika Flaschka, visiting assistant professor at the College of Wooster, presents “International Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Purpose and Politics of Memory” at noon Friday in the Gallery of Kilcawley Center at Youngstown State University.

Flaschka, who works in Wooster’s Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, has served as a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Her research has focused on sexual assaults during the Holocaust and the precipitating factors behind those assaults.

The presentation is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the YSU Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies at 330-941-1604 or judaic@ysu.edu.

The presentation is in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday and marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.

Film on fracking

villa maria, pa.

A free screening of “Gasland,” the critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated documentary on drilling for natural gas known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at at Villa Maria Community Center.

When filmmaker Josh Fox was asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarked on a cross-country odyssey through the natural-gas drilling world. The film exposes the toxic chemicals being leeched into water supplies as a consequence of the natural-gas drilling method.

For information and directions, call 724-964-8920, ext. 3331, or visit the website at www.humilityofmary.org.

Attention bird lovers

CANFIELD

Audubon Society/Mahoning Valley will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Mill Creek MetroParks Farm, state Route 46, Canfield. A movie about bird rehabilitation, “Saving Pelican 849,” will be presented, and guest speaker, Dr. Bill Snyder, will discuss the chemistry behind cleaning oil-soaked birds. The public is invited. For more information, call 888-846-8851.