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Hillel remembers Holocaust victims

Sitting on a corner of the William Pitt Union lawn, the small white tent hummed with… Sitting on a corner of the William Pitt Union lawn, the small white tent hummed with anticipation. Junior Jessica Sheeran wandered among a table of candles and rows of chairs with the weight of six million people on her shoulders.

In honor and remembrance of the six million Jewish Holocaust victims, Hillel is hosting a 24-hour Holocaust memorial name reading. From sundown Monday until sundown Tuesday, approximately 50 volunteers will share the weight of reciting the name, age, place and year of death of these victims.

As a freshman, Shira Naider, now a senior, founded the event in order to give Pitt

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