Mar 20, 2012
Community Will Unite on April 15 to Remember the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah
Hundreds of members of our community will gather at the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation on the evening of Sunday, April 15 in observance of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Together, they will honor the memory of the six million Jewish people who perished at the hands of the Nazis and pay tribute to those who survived the horrors of the Holocaust.
This solemn ceremony, which will begin at 6:30 p.m., will include prayers, songs and a performance by the Second Avenue Jewish Chorale. There will also be a candlelighting ceremony in honor of the recent victims of terror in Toulouse, France, as well as all Jewish victims of terror around the world.
Aranka Siegal, a novelist and recipient of the Newbery Honor and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, also will share her personal experiences from the Holocaust. Siegal was born in the town of Berehove (Beregszász in Hungarian), Czechoslovakia. At the age of 13, she and her family were forcibly relocated the Jewish ghetto. She was later sent to the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps before being rescued by British forces in 1945.
The Hon. Chaim Shacham, Consul General of Israel to Florida and Puerto Rico, will participate and speak at the event, which is chaired by Wendy Reiss Rothfield.
Prior to the ceremony and beginning at 3 p.m., the names of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust will be read aloud. Those who are interested in volunteering as a reader should contact the Holocaust Memorial.
This event is being held in cooperation with the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council. The Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach is located at 1933-45 Meridian Avenue, Miami Beach. Free parking is available south of the Memorial. In case of rain, the program will be held at Temple Emanu-El, 1701 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach. Complimentary round-trip bus service is available for Holocaust survivors at 5:00 p.m. from Young Israel of Sunny Isles and Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus.
For additional information about the event or to RSVP for a bus pick-up, please contact the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach at [email protected] or at 305.538.1663.
