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FEATURE: "Will You Remember?" (Holocaust) {Many Holocaust events scheduled for this weekend} Maura Grunlund

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Many Holocaust events scheduled for this weekend

Published: Friday, April 29, 2011, 7:23 AM
News photos -- Friday, April 29, 2011Rabbi Michael S. Howald of Temple Israel holds a Torah taken by the Nazis during the Holocaust as he stands next to Manny Saks.  

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Many Staten Island Jewish congregations will be participating in Holocaust memorial events this weekend in observance of Yom Hashoah on Sunday. 

The 18th annual Yom Hashoah-Holocaust Commemoration Program for the Staten Island Jewish Community will be held Sunday at Temple Israel Reform Congregation, Randall Manor. Manny Saks is chairman of the Staten Island Holocaust Commemoration Committee. 

"I am a Star: Child of the Holocaust" will be presented by author and Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher. Ms. Auerbacher, the subject of documentary films, will tell of her family's survival in the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. 

Participating organizations include: Temple Emanu-El; Arden Heights Boulevard Jewish Center; Congregation Aviv Hadash; Congregation B'nai Israel; Congregation B'nai Jeshurun; Congregation Ohel Abraham; Congregation Ahavath Israel; Joan and Alan Bernikow JCC; Temple Israel Reform Congregation, and Jewish War Veterans Post No. 80. 

Highlights of the program include a procession of 12 candles representing the 12 million, half of them Jews, who perished; the passing from the older to younger generation of two Torahs rescued from the Nazis and currently preserved at B'nai Israel and Temple Israel, and readings of Psalms, El Maleh Rachamim and the names of concentration camps. Temple Israel Reform Choir will perform and the Jewish War Veterans will troop the colors. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the free program will begin at 7 p.m. 

Temple Israel will hold its own 22nd annual Yom Hashoah observance with the Philharmonic Winds tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. Featured will be a remembrance of the lost town of Nachod, the home of the Temple's Holocaust Torah Scroll. Shabbat service will be at 8 o'clock tonight. Tomorrow, 10 a.m. Torah study will be followed by Shabbat morning service at 11 a.m. at Temple Israel at 315 Forest Ave.

YOUNG ISRAEL EVENT 
Dr. Ann Kirschner, dean of the Macaulay Honors College of CUNY and the author of "Salas Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story," will speak at the Young Israel of Staten Island Holocaust program on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. 

The program will feature poetry readings by the Yeshiva students, the YISI men's chorus and a candlelighting ceremony. Young Israel is at 835 Forest Hill Rd.

TREE DEDICATION 
A Holocaust commemoration day with a tree and stone dedication will be held Sunday at the Arden Heights Boulevard Jewish Center. 

Sponsored by the Garden Club, the center will dedicate a new dwarf weeping cherry tree that has been planted in front of the synagogue, as well as a memorial stone in memory of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The Sunday School will participate in the 11 a.m. ceremony at the center at 1766 Arthur Kill Rd. 

MEMORIAL TONIGHT 
Congregation Ahavath Israel will hold a Holocaust memorial tonight with special poems, music and stories directed by congregants Erwin Meller and Ben Wayne and services conducted by spiritual leader Joel Russo in Tottenville. 

The 7 p.m. event will feature flute virtuoso Linda Keltz performing music of the Holocaust, as well as Holocaust poems recited by congregants. Wayne, a Holocaust survivor, will speak. Oneg will follow. The synagogue is located at 7630 Amboy Rd. 

 

 

 

 

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