Colored flags call us to remember Holocaust

4/17/10 1:18 AM

Memorial makes Driscoll not-so-green By Cory Lamz Spring may be here, but the grass at Driscoll Green is anything but green. Right now, it’s yellow, orange, red, blue, white, pink, brown and black. Few students seem to notice. Students eat hot dogs from Grill on the Greens while guys from the fraternities on Old Row play volleyball nearby, but no one takes a second look at  a couple thousand  colored flags. As the flags ripple in the wind, people continue walking by. Only one woman stops to read the info on the sign: “Holocaust Memorial.” The yellow flags represent the 5.8 million Jews who died in the Nazi Holocaust. The red symbolize 3 million Soviet deaths. And the orange stand for 1.9 Polish Civilians who passed. Organized by Never Again, a DU student...

Flags of Memory

4/15/10 5:25 PM

                  Like the flowers one can notice blooming all across campus these days, thousands of colorful flags have bloomed around the Driscoll Green as well.                 These flags, however, are far from trying to elicit any spring-like feelings. Rather than represent life, they are symbols of death. They are symbols of those lost in the Holocaust.                 Every year during Genocide Awareness Week, the group Never Again!—DU students who raise attentiveness about genocide—place the 2,500 flags on the campus green to represent...