RHODE ISLAND’S STATEWIDE ANNUAL
HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY COMMEMORATION
Temple Emanu-El
May 1, 2019 – 7:30 pm
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) commemorates the annihilation of six million Jews, along with people of many nations who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the extreme racist attitudes, policies and actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. The day also celebrates the heroism of Jewish resistance during this period. With rising anti-Semitism here and abroad this remembrance is more important than ever.
This annual program, emphasizing the depth of loss that Jews and other groups, including gays, Roma people, communists and other political opponents, experienced in the Holocaust, is a collaboration between the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island, the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center, the RI State Council of Churches, the Greater RI Board of Rabbis and Temple Emanu-El. The ceremony is multi-denominational, and all are invited to attend.
The ceremony will include:
*a candle lighting procession of survivors;
*the reading aloud of the names of family members lost in the Holocaust;
*reflective music performed by noted harpist,
Judie Tenenbaum;
*a viewing of
“The Fence Between Us”,
a film produced by a group of URI film students, featuring two Rhode Island-based survivors,
Jorge Gardos and Albert Silverstein;
*the
Hazamir International Jewish Teen Choir's Providence Chapter
premiering
Ilse Weber's "Wiegala," a lullaby which Weber sang to the children in her care, including her own son, when they marched into the gas chambers,
and a piece of music that was recently unearthed in the
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum,
which had been performed during WWII by the Auschwitz men's prisoner orchestra to entertain the Nazi commandant and Nazi officers.
*guest artist Armenian soprano
Anush Avetisyan
will perform songs
related to the Armenian genocide;
*the annual
Never Again Award
- presented this year to the sponsors of the bill that requires Holocaust and Genocide Education in Rhode Island schools:
Sen. Gayle Goldin, Rep. Katherine Kazarian, Sen. Josh Miller,
and Former Rep. Aaron Regunberg
