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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Indianapolis Offers Statewide Holocaust Remebrance Event

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A statewide Day of Remembrance of the Jewish Holocaust will include a ceremony at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis.

Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf will deliver the keynote address at the event that begins at noon Tuesday. Other speakers include state Treasurer Richard Mourdock; Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council President Michael Wallack; Indiana Civil Rights Commission Executive Director Tony A. Kirkland and Clayton A. Graham, who is chairman of the Martin Luther King Jr. Indiana Holiday Commission.

The King Commission is hosting the observance that recalls the Nazi genocide of some 6 million European Jews.

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