Watch the 2024 program video here.

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The ADL Mountain States Region’s 44th Annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program will be held on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM MT at Temple Emanuel in Denver, CO. Registration is required. In-person registration at midnight on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025. Register here.

The annual program allows people of all faiths to come together each year to honor Holocaust survivors, remember those who perished, educate the community about this horrible crime against humanity and translate those lessons into contemporary action. The event will also include remarks from Governor Jared Polis, the chanting of the El Maleh Memorial Prayer, the lighting of our Holocaust candelabra, and more.

Thank you to our generous primary sponsors

The Curtiss-Lusher and Lusher Families

The Chotin Foundation & Family

Michael and Debbie Feiner and the Feiner Family Foundation

GSR Fund, Inc. and Gregory S. Rosenblum and Family

JEWISHcolorado

Ruth Malman and Michael Opatowski

M.B. Glassman Foundation

MDC/Richmond American Homes Foundation

Spencer Fane LLP

University of Denver

OUR SPEAKER

The 2025 program will feature a keynote interview with hidden child Survivor Peter Metzelaar. Pete grew up in Amsterdam and was just seven years old when he and his mother were forced into hiding on a farm in northern Holland. The Metzelaars were sheltered by a generous and kind Christian couple for two and a half years, before more frequent raids made it impossible to stay, and they spent the remaining war years in hiding first in an apartment in the Hague, and when Pete’s mother caught wind that the women who owned the apartment were planning to turn them in, escaped back to Amsterdam. Pete now speaks about his experiences throughout the western US through the auspices of the Seattle Holocaust Center Speakers Bureau. Read more about Pete here.

View our list of community partners and honorary host committee members below.

View our updated list of Holocaust education resources, including a video from five Colorado Holocaust survivors, here:

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Watch the 2024 program video here.