Holocaust Remembrance Day speaker Jeffrey Gingold gives

Holocaust Remembrance Day speaker Jeffrey Gingold gives his presentation April 27, 2018, at McCoy’s Community Center at Fort McCoy, Wis. Gingold is a freelance writer and second-generation Holocaust survivor. His book “Tunnel, Smuggle, Collect: A Holocaust Boy” is the story of how his father, grandparents, and other family members survived and escaped the Warsaw Ghetto. Congress established the Days of Remembrance in 1979 as the nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust. It typically begins the Sunday before the Jewish observance of Yom HaShoah and continues through the following Sunday. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The regime also targeted political opponents and other minority groups they perceived as inferior, including Roma, Slavic groups, homosexuals, and people with mental and physical disabilities. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)