Washington, D.C.
"Remember the Holocaust"

Funded by:

  1. U.S. Department of Education
  2. U.S. Department of Agriculture
  3. U.S. Department of Transportation
  4. U.S. Department of State
  5. U.S. Information Agency
  6. U.S. Housing and Urban Development
  7. U.S. Department of Veteran Adminstration
  8. U.S. Department of the Interior
  9. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  10. U.S. Department of the Treasury
  11. General Service Administration
  12. U.S. Department of Commerce
  13. Small Business Administration
  14. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  15. U.S. Department of Labor
  16. U.S. Department of Justice
  17. Federal Emergency Management Agency
  18. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  19. The National Italian American Foundation

Amongst the conference highlights were presentations from Secretary of Agriculture Glickman. Conference presenters included local TV broadcaster Andrea Roane; survivors of Italy Ginetta Sagan, and Salvatore Lombardo; Mayor Stefano Vaccari, representing survivors of Villa Emma in Nonantola and U.S. Officer Albert Materazzi. The conference site Lincoln Theater was adorned with a display of Walt Whitman High School Jean Diamond's students' artistic impressions of the Holocaust. Over 18 U.S. Federal Agencies worked together to commemorate the survivors of the Holocaust. The handout was a publication "Risking All for Brotherhood" by Dr. Maria Lombardo published by Italy/Italy Magazine in Rome, Italy.