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Hackney appoints child survivor of the Holocaust to NC Council on the Holocaust
Friday, February 29, 2008
Fearrington Village, NC - Speaker Joe Hackney has appointed Ms. Renie Fink to the North
Carolina Council on the Holocaust.
Ms. Fink is a Dutch Hidden Child. She was hidden by a Catholic family in Holland from 1942
until the end of World War II. She says the family risked their lives every day they kept
her hidden while the Nazi regime in Germany persecuted Jewish people. Ms. Fink's parents
died in the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz.
Ms. Fink is a retired medical staff coordinator. She resides in Fearrington Village in
Chatham County. Her appointment to the council will expire June 30, 2009.
"I am deeply honored to be appointed to the Council by Speaker Hackney. It is a meaningful
culmination of the war experience at this point in my life," Ms. Fink said. "Being a child
survivor makes me a member of the last generation to bear witness to the Holocaust, and
all too soon we will be the only ones left to tell the story."
The North Carolina Council on the Holocaust is a 24-member body that focuses on preventing
genocide and violence through education about the Holocaust. The Governor, Speaker of the
House, and President Pro Tempore of the Senate each appoint six members of the Council.
The remaining six are appointed by these eighteen members.
The Holocaust council holds teacher workshops and distributes Holocaust-related materials
to middle and high schools. The council has distributed 10,000 copies of its North
Carolina Resources Guide and trained more than 12,000 teachers throughout the state. Many
of these teachers had not attempted to teach about the Holocaust before they attended the
workshops. More than 1.2 million North Carolinian students have been educated on the
Holocaust as a result of these workshops.

This drawing is by my new friend in Germany, Karen Securius.

Thank you for giving me permission to use it here.