For Yom Ha’Shoah, the international day of remembrance for those who perished in the Holocaust, PHSA will be holding their annual Yom Ha’Shoah commemoration event “We Are a People of Memory” on April 19 at 3 pm at Congregation Beth Israel, 10460 N 56 St. in Scottsdale. Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane will be giving the keynote address.
Over 50 Holocaust Survivors will participate in the processional. Each will carry a candle as they enter the sanctuary. Cantor Jamie Shpall of CBI is coordinating the music including an adult choir and a children’s choir. The Jewish War Veterans Honor Guard will present the colors and Professor John Liffiton of Scottsdale Community College will receive the Shofar Zakhor Award for outstanding contributions to the teaching of the Holocaust and Genocide Awareness. In addition, George Kalman and Helen Handler, both Holocaust survivors, will speak. A Hebrew High student (to be announced) who received The Bronkesh Award for the most outstanding 2015 Holocaust paper will read his/her essay and Dr. Anna Scherzer, the daughter of Partisans, will sing the Partisan song, “Zog Nit Keymol.”
PHSA invites the whole community to gather together to watch this most inspiring tribute to those 6,000,000 Jews who perished in the Holocaust and to those Jewish Survivors who were able to live through it.
The program is funded by the Bureau of Jewish Education, the Greater Phoenix Jewish Community Foundation and Generations After, a program founded in 2013 for the descendents of survivors. There is no charge to attend. For further info, call 602-788-7003 or e-mail phoenixsurvivors@gmail.com
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