Days of Remembrance

Winner of Four Collegiate Excellence in Journalism Awards fromo Our college. Our news. Our voice. Naugatuck Valley Community College May 1, 2016 Waterbury, Connecticut Vol. 60, Iss. 4 World Press Freedom Day Days of Remembrance Emily Daly Richard Bosco, Senior Staff Writer Each month has its own month-long awareness issue, and countless themed days acknowledging any number of topics. There are silly ones, like National Burger Day (May 28th), and days for more important issues, like Armed Services Day (May 21st). The most important of these—in the world of journalism, anyway—is May 3rd: World Press Freedom Day. World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1993, after recommendation from the UN’s Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Its purpose is to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom, and to assess the state of press freedom throughout the world. It also pays tribute to journalists who have lost their lives covering stories around the world. In particular, World Press Freedom Day aspires to defend the media from attacks on its independence, pushing for free press across the world, in places far from the United States as well as here at home. In their man- date to promote and protect free press, You may have noticed this academic year The the Holocaust Child Survivors of CT. Born in Photo Courtesy of Gerald Deutsch the UN named journalist (and CNN Chief Tamarack has used its front page to shed light Hungary in 1938, the Fairfield, CT resident will International Correspondent) Christiane on issues of awareness. We’ve attempted to share her inspirational story of loss and sur- ungarian-born Fairfield resident, Amanpour Goodwill Ambassador for Freedom bring attention to issues ranging from National vival during the Holocaust. Deutsch is one of a Mrs. Elizabeth Deutsch, will join of Expression and Journalist Safety. Recovery Month in September 2015 to April’s large but dwindling number of survivors who Hthe NVCC community on Friday, May 6, Many people are unaware journalism can status as both Sexual Assault Awareness and share their stories in the belief that the reality be such a dangerous profession, but in many Autism Awareness Month. This May, there are a of what happened under the Nazi regime must at 11:00 AM in the Interfaith Center, room countries, being a journalist is tantamount to number of important awareness issues we could never be forgotten. T601 in Technology Hall. A member of having a target on your back. Since 1992, 1,189 potentially spotlight: Military Appreciation, Facts regarding the Holocaust remain journalists have died around the world. 38% ALS, Borderline Personality Disorder, Brain sobering, regardless of how many times we the Holocaust Child Survivors of CT, Mrs. of those killed were journalists covering war, Cancer, Celiac Disease, Mental Health, Lupus, encounter them. In 1933, some 9 million Jews Deutsch has, since 1981, been a frequent with Iraq and Syria being the top two deadli- lived in Europe. By the close of World War II, Lyme Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, and Stroke contributor to Holocaust remembrance est locales for journalists. This number doesn’t Awareness, to name a few. Unfortunately only 3 million survived. A total of 6 million even cover journalists who’ve been prisoners of there are more issues deserving attention than Jews were either slaughtered in death camps events, including presentations at war, taken captive by the enemy for covering there are front pages in an academic year. By throughout Europe, worked to death in slave Fairfield University and Ansonia High the story (or simply being American, in some mentioning these few, we hope you’ll pick labor camps, or died as part of the Nazis’ bar- School. cases). As of 2015, 199 journalists were impris- one or two and research them further, for baric so-called medical and scientific exper- oned for various “crimes” worldwide. The top knowledge is the path to enlightenment. iments. These atrocious acts were part of Deutsch will share her own story of two countries where journalists have been This month we devote our front page to the Hitler’s “Final Solution,” intended to erase the living through the Holocaust. The mem- arrested and imprisoned are China and Egypt. commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance. Jewish people from existence in a mad pur- We should care about journalism and free The internationally recognized date for suit to create a pure Aryan race. Along with ber of a large family in Hungary, Mrs. press around the world because free press is Holocaust Remembrance Day corresponds to the atrocities committed against Jews, mil- Deutsch endured firsthand the vicious vital to democracy. It’s as basic as that. Free the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calen- lions of others were also slaughtered. These anti-Semitism that overtook Europe press creates debate, conversation among peo- dar. This date marks the anniversary of the victims included Russians, Poles, Roma (gyp- ple to voice opinions without fear of retribution. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The United States sies), Socialists, Communists, Homosexuals, under Hitler. Initially, she and her fam- Freedom of the press is fundamental to Congress established the Days of Remembrance Jehovah’s Witnesses, Catholics, and the physi- ily experienced enforced curfews and choosing among candidates running for public as our nation’s annual commemoration of the cally and mentally challenged, as well as polit- office, specifically for presidential candidates. Holocaust. Each year state and local govern- ical prisoners who were exterminated by the were made to wear the Jewish star. Running for president is like interviewing for a ments, military bases, workplaces, schools, Nazis. Today we call this genocide. These indignities were, however, just job, and it’s a journalist’s duty to ask the tough religious organizations, and civic centers host Prior to 1944, the word genocide did not the beginning of what she and her fam- questions. There’s nothing more important in observances and remembrance activities for exist. In 1944, in an attempt to describe the a democracy than a well-informed electorate, their communities. enormity of the Nazi policies of systematic ily suffered. and journalists are key to our education. This year Holocaust Remembrance Day murder, including the destruction of European Mrs. Deutsch will share the details of This World Press Freedom Day, the UN begins at sundown May 4th and ends on May Jews, a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael has highlighted three themes: 1) A Need for 5th. Events will occur during the Week of Lemkin coined the word genocide. He did so her family’s struggle and her profound Quality Journalism--reporting that is both Remembrance, which runs from the Sunday by combining geno, from the Greek word for losses under the Nazis. Though her story accurate and independent, a growing problem before Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom race or tribe, with cide from the Latin word for is one of unfathomable suffering, ulti- in this age of the online/constant 24-hour news Hashoah, through the following Sunday—this killing or murder. cycle; 2) Gender imbalance--too few women are year Sunday, May 1st through Sunday, May 8th. In 1948, genocide and crimes against civil- mately, her survival and choice to tell her able to reach decision-making positions within Information and resources on the Holocaust ians and humanity were outlawed by the UN story are inspirational, proof of the resil- journalism and communications companies; and the National Days of Remembrance can be General Assembly. However, even today, many and 3) Digital Safety in the Internet Age--where found at the U.S. National Holocaust Memorial are still murdered en mass due to genocide ience of the human spirit. Join us as we hackers make it difficult to maintain privacy for Museum website at: https://www.ushmm.org. in places like Syria, Iraq, Darfur, Bosnia, and bear witness to one survivor’s powerful journalists and their sources. The Tamarack will commemorate the Days Rwanda. This is why it is vital to remember story of loss and hope. As a young, female journalist, I hope to of Remembrance with an event on Friday, May what happened yesterday, and to work to stop reclaim the Fourth Estate: reclaiming journal- 6, 2016. Located in the Interfaith Center, Room what continues today. The ultimate goal is to ism as an honorable profession. I want to be the T601, in Technology Hall, the event will run create a tomorrow in which murder and racial one to frame the debate and inform the public. from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and will include a hatred no longer exist. We have a long road to Friday, May 6 During the month of May, think about journal- Names Reading Ceremony, and the presen- that tomorrow, but by honoring the past, we 11: 0 0 AM ists and the work they do to inform the public- tation of original Holocaust-inspired poetry hope to pave it with bricks of remembrance. We Interfaith Center -many risking their lives to do so. Remember written by NVCC Creative Writing students. hope you’ll join us on Friday, May 6, to honor, Room T601 in Technology Hall all journalists do to ensure Americans are as At 11:00 AM, The Tamarack will welcome a to memorialize, to remember—and to support democratic and informed as we possibly can be. speaker, Mrs. Elizabeth Deutsch, a member of the fight against genocide worldwide. Peace. 2 News The Tamarack, May 1 , 2016 SGA PRESIdenT Dancing See You in EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK through Life September! Of all the important Happy Steve Parlato, Faculty Advisor issues that deserve May, Emily Daly awareness to be When I agreed to take on The Tamarack, it was raised this month, Everyone! For many, spur-of-the-moment decisions don’t with major trepidation and serious self-doubt.

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