Join NOWCastSA and the San Antonio Public Library on Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. as Dr. Edward Westermann examines artistic depictions by survivors of the Holocaust and discusses the insights that the works of art offer as a method for understanding genocide. Westermann's keynote address concludes the 6th annual Holocaust: Learn & Remember month-long commemoration of the Holocaust.

On the morning of April 7, 1994, Rwanda native Alex-Marie Secondaire was leaving Mass and headed toward his parents’ home, when he saw a barricade had been set up along a road and hundreds of people were being stopped by government soldiers and police.

As Iran threatens to erase Israel from the map through possible nuclear annihilation and anti-Semitic attitudes persist throughout the world, should society be concerned? Edward Westermann, distinguished scholar in residence at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, believes so. He will address these issues and more during a lecture, “Confronting Hatred: Implications of the Holocaust for Contemporary Society” at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 15 at Congregation Agudas Achim, 16550 Huebner Road. Admission is free and open to the public.