The past is with us, whether we acknowledge it or not. How can we memorialize a traumatic past to help foster a positive future? The Adult Education Committee will host a panel discussion to examine this question. Two pairs of panelists will relate their personal experience participating in projects creating memorials to difficult historical events: Two congregants, Caryn Hertz and Ethan Hertz, will talk about setting stolpersten (stumbling stones, http://www.stolpersteine-gelsenkirchen.de/stumbling_stones_demnig.htm) as a monument to their relatives murdered or displaced by the Nazis. Two students from Middle Creek High School, Kala Keaton and Anastasia Israelson, will share their experience with the Equal Justice Initiative (https://eji.org/) documenting and gathering soil for a memorial to a lynching victim in Wake County. Finally, Dr. Seth Kotch, UNC history professor and author of Lethal State (2019), will compare and contrast the dehumanization processes used by the Nazis and those used in this country during slavery and Jim Crow. He will show how wrongful convictions and imprisonments and subsequent lynchings in the past have lead to inequalities in our present day judicial system. Visit panelist bios here: https://images.shulcloud.com/1276/uploads/Adult-Ed-Resources/Jan2020flyerPanelDiscMemorials.pdf