SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University's Holocaust Remembrance Program will offer a different type of message this year, but the goal remains the same: to educate the public about the genocide that took place during World War II.

SRU will host "Reflections on the Holocaust: Reaching Across an Ocean" at 3:30 p.m. April 28 at the Miller Theater at the Performing Arts Center. The free event is sponsored by SRU history, political science and music departments and open to the public.

Speaking will be Lynne Rosenbaum Ravas, a volunteer with the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and former teaching fellow with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

A retired English teacher, Rosenbaum Ravas has volunteered with hate crimes groups, the FBI's Citizens Academy and other organizations in the Pittsburgh area.

Thursday’s event also will include a musical duet featuring flutist Kathy Melago, professor of music, and pianist Glenn Utsch, assistant professor of music, performing a sonata by the late Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff. Schullhoff’s music career was prematurely ended by the rise of the Nazi regime; he died of tuberculosis in a Nazi prison camp in 1942.