Yom Hashoah

May 2, 2019

The Center for Holocaust Education and Human Dignity of the East Valley Jewish Community Center will host a daylong program commemorating the victims of the Holocaust in observance of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day .

‘Through the Eyes of Youth: Life and Death in the Bedzin Ghetto’

Noon-3 p.m.

“Through the Eyes of Youth: Life and Death in the Bedzin Ghetto” is an exhibit created by the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University that tells the story of young people in the Jewish ghetto of Bedzin, Poland, before, during and after the Holocaust. Self-guided tours are available between noon and 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 2. Reservations are required.

Learn more about the exhibit.

11 a.m. Guided Tour

Bjorn Krondorfer, director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University, will lead a tour of the exhibit as part of Open Beit Midrash. The cost is $14, which includes a kosher lunch following the tour. Reservations are required by April 29.

4-5:30 p.m. Teacher’s Workshop

In this free workshop, Bjorn Krondorfer, director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University, will lead a tour of the exhibit and discuss how to approach stories from the Holocaust with students.  The program is geared toward teachers who teach high school or college students. Reservations are required.

Donations to the Martin-Springer Institute are welcomed. 

‘Shalom Italia’
1 p.m. Screening

This documentary by Tamar Tal Anati tells the story of three Italian Jewish brothers who set off on a journey through Tuscany, in search of a cave where they hid as children to escape the Nazis. Their quest, full of humor, food and Tuscan landscapes, straddles the boundary between history and myth, both of which really, truly happened. Reservations are required.

 

6 p.m. Ceremony

  • Procession of survivors and their descendants and a candle-lighting ceremony.
  • Presentation by Holocaust survivor Marion Weinzweig, author of “Lonely Chameleon.”
  • Presentation by Bjorn Krondorfer, who will share his story about finding out as an adult that his father was a German soldier at a slave labor camp in Poland.
  • Reading of names, Mourner’s Kaddish, El Maleh Rachamim led by Rabbi Michael Beyo.

Reservations are required.

Thank you to our partners