FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – January 14, 2008

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WHRV 89.5FM TO AIR HOLOCAUST VOICES
Five Area Survivors Share First Hand Accounts in Radio Interviews
 
Norfolk: WHRV 89.5 FM, one of the public radio stations of WHRO, will air Holocaust Voices on January 30th at 1:00pm.  This poignant one-hour program will offer the personal accounts of five area individuals who survived the Holocaust.  Working with the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, WHRV producer Michelle Gabriele-Harrell conducted interviews with Anne Friedman, David Katz, Hans Loewenbach, Dana Cohen and Kitty Saks.

“No matter how much you read in history books or other written accounts, there is nothing that compares to a first hand telling,” says producer Harrell.  “It was humbling to work with these remarkable people as they shared their stories.”  WHRO/WHRV President and CEO Bert Schmidt added, “It’s so critical to capture these stories while they can be told by those in our community who actually lived through the event.  This is important material that will add incalculable value to available written accounts.”

WHRV’s broadcast of Holocaust Voices was made possible, in part, through the Strelitz Family Memorial Program Fund in the WHRO endowment.  The fund was established in 1999 to acquire and produce programs of particular interest to the Jewish community.

WHRV will rebroadcast Holocaust Voices on Thursday, May 1, 2008, at 1:00pm., the day before Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.