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StickpinEntry/Object ID
1987.12.1Description
Silver stick pin with Hebrew letters for the word, "remember." It would be written "zachor" and pronounced, "zahor."Context
The pin marked Vermont's first Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust. The event was held April 29, 1987 at 12:15 in the Pavilion Auditorium in Montpelier and sponsored by the Holocaust Human Rights Education Committee. The keynote speaker at the event was Marion Pritchard, formerly from the Netherlands, who fed, clothed, hid or obtained false identification papers for as many as 150 Dutch Jews, according to obituaries in The New York Times and The Washington Post. She also met, by chance, the German-born diarist Anne Frank before the girl went into hiding. Pritchard lived in Vershire, Vt. from 1976 to 2006. Gov. Madeleine Kunin, who is Jewish, fled Switzerland at age 6 with her widowed mother and older brother, Edgar May, in 1940, because her mother feared a Nazi invasion.
Source (link as of 10/21/2020): https://vtdigger.org/2016/12/29/holocaust-hero-marion-pritchard-remembered-vermont/Acquisition
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1987.12Source or Donor
Holocaust Human Rights CommitteeAcquisition Method
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