A Holocaust survivor walked in front of a microphone Sunday evening and her first words were intended as a sound check, but served as a question that haunts every genocide through the ages:
Holocaust survivor Yvonne Aronson speaks at the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Program at St. Ambrose University on Sunday, April 19, 2026 in Davenport. Aronson, who was born in 1939, talked about how she and her mother survived the Holocaust by the grace of other people's kindness toward them.Â
Guests read off the names of concentration camps at the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Program at St. Ambrose University on Sunday, April 19, in Davenport.
Kim Busic, of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, plays a Holocaust survivor's violin, at the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Program at St. Ambrose University on Sunday, April 19, in Davenport. The stringed instrument is part of the two-month Violins of Hope exhibit in Iowa.
Candles are lit to honor those who died in the Holocaust at the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Program at St. Ambrose University on Sunday, April 19, in Davenport.
Art from the 2026 Ida Kramer "Children and the Holocaust" visual art contest is displayed at the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Program at St. Ambrose University on Sunday, April 19, in Davenport.Â
Holocaust survivor Yvonne Aronson speaks at the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Program at St. Ambrose University on Sunday, April 19, 2026 in Davenport. Aronson, who was born in 1939, talked about how she and her mother survived the Holocaust by the grace of other people's kindness toward them.Â
Guests read off the names of concentration camps at the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Program at St. Ambrose University on Sunday, April 19, in Davenport.
Kim Busic, of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, plays a Holocaust survivor's violin, at the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Program at St. Ambrose University on Sunday, April 19, in Davenport. The stringed instrument is part of the two-month Violins of Hope exhibit in Iowa.
Candles are lit to honor those who died in the Holocaust at the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Program at St. Ambrose University on Sunday, April 19, in Davenport.
Art from the 2026 Ida Kramer "Children and the Holocaust" visual art contest is displayed at the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Program at St. Ambrose University on Sunday, April 19, in Davenport.Â
