Vancouver: Yom HaShoah commemoration
Join the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver and Temple Sholom Synagogue for a community-wide commemoration of Yom HaShoah. This year’s commemoration marks the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and provides an important opportunity for survivors to remember and mourn, and for all of us to recommit to our promise to never forget.
Janos Benisz will deliver our keynote survivor address. Janos Benisz is a child survivor from Hungary. Born in 1938, Janos may be one of the youngest concentration camp survivors in Canada. At the age of six, Janos and his mother—along with 19,000 other Hungarian Jews—were rounded up and sent to Strasshauf concentration camp in Austria until the Russians liberated the camp.
Music arranged by Wendy Bross Stuart will enhance the evening with songs of remembrance and prayers. Holocaust survivors will take part in a candle-lighting ceremony and Dr. Abby Wener Herlin, a member of the third-generation, will be our descendant speaker.
event_title: Vancouver: Yom HaShoah commemoration
event_time_zone: America/Vancouver
event_start: April 17, 2023 19:00
event_duration: 60
event_end: April 17, 2023 20:00
event_address: 950 W 41st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 2N7, Canada
event_description: Join the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver and Temple Sholom Synagogue for a community-wide commemoration of Yom HaShoah. This year’s commemoration marks the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and provides an important opportunity for survivors to remember and mourn, and for all of us to recommit to our promise to never forget.Janos Benisz will deliver our keynote survivor address. Janos Benisz is a child survivor from Hungary. Born in 1938, Janos may be one of the youngest concentration camp survivors in Canada. At the age of six, Janos and his mother—along with 19,000 other Hungarian Jews—were rounded up and sent to Strasshauf concentration camp in Austria until the Russians liberated the camp.Music arranged by Wendy Bross Stuart will enhance the evening with songs of remembrance and prayers. Holocaust survivors will take part in a candle-lighting ceremony and Dr. Abby Wener Herlin, a member of the third-generation, will be our descendant speaker.