13 Local Holocaust Remembrance Events Commemorating Yom HaShoah
Local universities and community organizations across NJ are holding events in honor of Yom HaShoah, an annual commemoration of the Holocaust.
Oheb Shalom Congregation
170 Scotland Road
South Orange, NJ
39th Annual South Orange/Maplewood Interfaith Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Displaced Persons Camps, with keynote speaker Ilona Medwied, Holocaust survivor
from Czestochowa, Poland who lived in a DP camp in Stuttgart Germany for 3 years.
For more information: www.rememberandtell.org
Drew University
Learning Center- Room 28
Madison, NJ
Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Remembering Fred Eisenberg, Survivor of 10 Concentration Camps, presented by Ph.D. student Angela West.
For more information: https://www.drew.edu/chs/events
Kean University, Wilkins Theatre
1000 Morris Avenue
Union NJ
Annual Yom HaShoah Holocaust Commemoration: Justice After the Holocaust, with keynote speaker Abe Foxman, National Director Emeritus, Anti-Defamation League. Bus transportation will be provided from Whippany or West Orange JCC's, to reserve seats, call 973 929-3067.
For more information and to RSVP: holocaustcouncil@jfedgmw.org or call 973-929-3194
http://www.nj.gov/education/holocaust/programs/yomhashoah/050416Kean.pdf
Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom
280 Ramapo Valley Road
Mahwah, NJ
Yom HaShoah Commemoration with a talk by a concentration camp liberator, Alan Moskin.
For more information: holgen@ramapo.edu.
Goodwin Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Program held at:
M'Kor Shalom Synagogue
850 E. Evesham Road
Cherry Hill, NJ
Yom Hashoah Observance with guest child survivor Rabbi Joseph Polak, author of After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring.
http://www.nj.gov/education/holocaust/programs/yomhashoah/050415statewide.pdf
Teaneck High School Auditorium
Cranford Place
Teaneck, NJ
Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration with keynote speaker, Helga Silberman, Holocaust survivor.
For more information: http://www.teaneckyomhashoa.org/events.htm
Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus
901 Route 10
Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest Yom HaShoah Commemoration and memorial candle-lighting ceremony, followed by a Lunch & Learn panel discussion, Women During the Holocaust, featuring local survivors. Lunch will be served.
For more information, please contact holocaustcouncil@jfedgmw.org or call 973-929-3194.
River Edge Public Library
685 Elm Avenue
River Edge, NJ
Screening of Prisoner of Her Past.
For more information: holgen@ramapo.edu
73rd Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Cong. B'nai Israel
Fair Lawn, NJ
http://www.nj.gov/education/holocaust/programs/yomhashoah/050516Warsaw.pdf
Brookdale Community College
765 Newman Springs Road
Lincroft, NJ
Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Time Capsule from Hell, The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto with Dr. Samuel D. Kassow.
For more information: www.Chhange.org or (732) 224-1889
Temple Emanu-El of West Essex
Northfield Road
Livingston NJ
Annual Shabbat Yom HaShoah Commemoration: a powerful night of memory, music, and reflection. Keynote Speaker Joe Ungerleider will tell his story of spending the war years in forced labor battalions and a ghetto.
For more information: www.emanuel.org or (973) 992-5560.
Congregation Beth Judah
700 Swarthmore Avenue
Ventnor, NJ
Unto Every Person There is a Name
http://www.nj.gov/education/holocaust/programs/yomhashoah/050316Name.pdf
Bayonne City Hall
Bayonne, NJ
Holocaust Remembrance Day
http://www.nj.gov/education/holocaust/programs/yomhashoah/050416Bayonne.pdf
Heather Ngoma has over 25 years of experience collaborating with educators across New Jersey to drive education innovation. She currently serves as the Director of the Rutgers-GSE Alternate Route Program in the Department of Learning and Teaching, a program which helps career changers, recent college graduates, and other aspiring education professionals become licensed teachers in New Jersey. Follow her on Twitter @heatherngoma.
