42nd Annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program

The ADL Mountain States Region is pleased to announce that the 2023 Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program will once again be held in person, on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at Temple Emanuel in Denver, CO with a livestream option.

The Program allows people of all faiths to come together each year to honor Holocaust survivors, remember those who perished, educate the community about this horrible crime against humanity and translate those lessons into contemporary action.

Thank you to our generous primary sponsors (as of 3/2/23):

The Curtiss-Lusher Family
Michael and Debbie Feiner and the Feiner Family Foundation
JEWISHcolorado
The M.B. Glassman Foundation
University of Denver

This year’s program will feature a conversation with Holocaust Survivor Paul Galan. Paul is a native of former Czechoslovakia.  Through a series of unusual circumstances and an extraordinary amount of luck, he and his immediate family members – although separated from one another – all survived the war. Paul immigrated to the United States as a teenager and spent his career in film production. On his retirement in 2006, he decided to put his skills as a communicator towards disseminating the memory and the legacy of the Holocaust by sharing his own story of survival during that dark period in history with student as well as adult audiences. He also produced several video projects dealing with the Holocaust. Paul is a member of the Board of Trustees and currently co-president of the Holocaust Museum and Study Center located at Rockland Community College in Suffern, NY.

The program will also include remarks from Governor Jared Polis, a presentation to the winners of ADL’s A Tribute to Moral Courage Student Essay Contest, the chanting of the El Maleh Memorial Prayer and more.