On Sunday evening they began with last names starting with “M.” Twenty-one hours of nonstop reading later, they were only at “P.”
More than 100 University students volunteered 15 minutes of their time Sunday and Monday, to take part in the reading of the names of those who died in the Holocaust as part of Holocaust Awareness Week. From 6 p.m. Sunday to 6 p.m. Monday they stood at the microphone in the EMU Amphitheater, reading names of people who died at Auschwitz concentration camp.

“People were actually out here all night. It’s amazing,” said Jodi Roth, a member of Oregon Hillel who helped organize the reading. “You kind of zone out and think about all of the people who died.”
Roth said campus organizers joined those around the world reading the names of those who died in the Holocaust, only a few days before Thursday’s Yom HaShoah, a remembrance of those who died.
Alpha Epsilon Pi and Sigma Alpha

Epsilon Pi headed up the readings during the night. Organizers pulled couches out of the Jewish Student Union’s office and collected food and drink in the amphitheater for those volunteering.
One student was so emotionally overcome, Roth said, that when he came to read he had to have a friend read for him.
Roth said while reading she came across somebody who had the same name as her friend, and it was “kind of eerie.”
— Jared Paben