UNC Asheville will hold the annual observance of Holocaust Education Week with a reading of victims’ names and a lunchtime lecture by Holocaust survivor Susan Cernyak-Spatz. Both events, which are sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Center for Jewish Studies and WNC Hillel, are free and open to the public.

Students, faculty, staff and community members will read Holocaust victims’ names from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday, April 16, and Tuesday, April 17, on UNC Asheville’s Ramsey Library Terrace. To participate, register online at www.unca.edu/cjs.

Cernyak-Spatz will discuss her experience in Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp, in "Theresienstadt: Paradigm of Deception" at 12:15 p.m. Monday, April 16, in UNC Asheville's Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall.

A native of Berlin, Cernyak-Spatz was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942. From there, she was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrueck, where she was liberated in May 1945. Cernyak-Spatz is the author of several books, including "German Holocaust Literature in American University Studies" and what else. She is translator of "Thereseinstadt: Hitler's Gift to the Jews," and served as foreign language professor at UNC Charlotte for a number of years.

For more information, call UNC Asheville’s Center for Jewish Studies at 828/251-6576 or click on www.unca.edu/cjs.