Airman Andrea Guidry lights a candle in remembrance of Holocaust victims during a special ceremony April 15 at the Airmen Memorial Chapel on Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. About 50 people attended the Holocaust Remembrance Service sponsored by the 37th Training Wing Chapel staff. (USAF photo by Alan Boedeker)

William Samelson, a visiting professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Texas in San Antonio and Trinity University, reads a poem during a Holocaust Remembrance Service April 15 at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The poem honors his mother who died during the Holocaust. Dr. Samelson was 11 years old when he was captured by the Nazis and taken to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. He spent three-and-a-half years there. About 57 members of his family perished in concentration camps. (USAF photo by Alan Boedeker)

A poster depicts various aspects of the Holocaust, an event which resulted in the death of 6 million European Jews, including more than 1 million Jewish children. (USAF photo by Alan Boedeker)