CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio, breaks ground Feb. 14 for "Promise for Life," a project memorializing the Holocaust -- the systematic annihilation of millions of Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi regime and its collaborators during World War II. Trinity is a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
The "Promise for Life" project began two years ago, inspired by a guest lecture sculptor and Holocaust survivor Alfred Tibor gave at the seminary.
The project includes a plaza to be paved with donated bricks bearing the word "remember" in various languages.
"Remember" is a banner word for the Jewish people, said Sam Horowitz of the Columbus Jewish Federation and a member of the project's planning committee. "For all people, it is both a call to reflect upon what has happened to their own people as well as to remember what their people may have done to others," he said.
"It reminds the world that we must not forget the lessons of the Nazi Holocaust," said Ward Cornett, director of continuing education at Trinity and a member of the project's planning committee.
An interfaith group of religious leaders will be on hand for the groundbreaking ceremony, including the Rev. Dennis A. Anderson, president of Trinity Lutheran Seminary; Monsignor Joseph N. F=EAte, St. Joseph Cathedral; Pete Krajnak, Feinknopf Macioce Schappa Architects; Rabbi Arthur P. Nemitoff, Temple Israel; Alfred Tibor; and Dr. Leon Troy, pastor emeritus of Second Baptist Church.
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