Theme of This Year's Shoah Ceremony: Resistance
March 11, 2010  |
| Samuel Kassow |
Samuel Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College in Connecticut, will be the keynote speaker at the annual Memorial Ceremony for the Six Million Jewish Martyrs.
Kassow, author of Who Will Write Our History?, will address the theme of resistance at the program on Sunday, April 11, at 1 p.m., at 16th and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway (rain location is Congregation Rodeph Shalom, 615 N. Broad St. in Philadelphia).
The event -- which will feature civic, community and religious leaders, as well as the traditional Yizkor prayers -- is Philadelphia's largest communal commemoration of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. It honors both the survivors and the memories of the victims. Free transportation is available by reservation for groups from synagogues, schools or organizations.
Prior to the ceremony, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the "Dorothy Freedman
Memorial Conversation With a Survivor" program provides the chance for middle- and high-school students to have an informal conversation with a Holocaust survivor. The educational program is being held at a new location this year -- at Moore College of Art & Design. Reservations for this are required.
The Ceremony and Conversation programs are sponsored by the Memorial Committee for the Six Million Jewish Martyrs of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, in addition to the Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.
To learn more, call Beth Razin at 215-832-0536 or e-mail her at: brazin@jfgp.org.