Thursday, April 12, 2007

Kurt Vonnegut Book Display



Come celebrate the life and work of one of America's best-ever literary voices by checking out one of his books we have on display. Vonnegut may have been tough on humanity but it was only because he cared so much. If you've never read him before, prepare to laugh out loud. We've lost one of the great wits of our time.

Monday, April 9, 2007

The Artwork of Ray Paul

Ray Paul Exhibit at HCC Brandon Campus Library
April 9th – May 9th 2007


The artwork of one of Tampa's premier local artists, Ray Paul, will be showing at Hillsborough Community College’s Brandon Campus Library. Mr. Paul’s absorbing artwork has been shown in numerous exhibitions over the years, both locally and nationally as well as having graced the covers of books and the pages of magazines.

The artwork will be exhibited in the Brandon Campus Library from April 9th through May 9th. The exhibit is free and open to the public to come view the work of this extraordinary artist. Library hours are Mon-Thu 8am-8pm; Fri 8-4:30pm; Sat 8-2pm.

For more information on the artist, visit Ray Paul’s website:
http://www.raypaul.artistsunlimited.org.

Monday, April 2, 2007

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Holocaust Remembrance


The Fences of Auschwitz
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Sunday April 15th, 2007

Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Nazis. The concentration camp, located 37 miles west of Krakow (Cracow), near the prewar German-Polish border, included extermination and forced-labor camps. On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. It is estimated that at minimum 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945; of these, at least 1.1 million were murdered.

The Nazi death camps took the lives of 11 million people throughout the course of the Second World War (1939-1945). Out of the 11 million, 6 million were Jews and 5 million were Poles, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Gypsies, Afro-Europeans, Catholic Priests, Christian Ministers, children, the handicapped, and men and women of the German Resistance. Over all, the war caused approximately 55 million deaths. 25 million in the military and 30 million civilians.

It has been 62 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, and organizations devoted to keeping the memory and lessons of this conflagration alive have set aside April 15 as a day of remembrance. Please take a moment of your time to visit some of the following links providing film footage and personal histories of survival:

United States Holocaust Museum:
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/auschwitz/

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005168

Holocaust Suvivors.org:
http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/

Florida Holocaust Museum:
http://www.flholocaustmuseum.org/