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‘It was disheartening’: Stolen flags spark fear in Jewish community at Virginia Tech
Leaders believe it is related to the on going conflict in the Middle East
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BLACKSBURG, Va. – Virginia Tech’s largest Jewish organization has been the target of vandalism for the second time in a year.
Leaders with Hillel at Virginia Tech believe it may be directly caused by the current conflict in the Middle East.
The organization has been a home away from home for the university’s Jewish population for decades.
“There’s been, you know, a few instances where students are being criticized directly, you know, within the campus and so we’ve been a resource for them,” Executive Director Hillel at Virginia Tech Susan Kurtz said.
Virginia Tech students share stories of ancestors who died, survived the Holocaust Roses with a note saying #weremember , are placed on the Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (Source: Markus Schreiber) By Katey Roshetko | April 10, 2021 at 11:59 AM EDT - Updated April 10 at 11:59 AM
BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - Beginning at 9 a.m. Friday morning, students, faculty, staff and members of the community will be reading the names of all those who died in the Holocaust.
For some students, the tribute is very personal.
“My grandmother and her side of the family are all from Kastoria,” Samantha Levy said. “Which is a very small textile town in northern Greece. And everyone there ended up going to the camps.”