On Sunday (May 5), at 19:45 in the “Rappaport” hall in the auditorium complex, the main ceremony commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day and Heroism will be held, in the capacity of the mayor, Yona Yahav.
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The ceremony will begin with a memorial assembly led by Tomer Bozman and the reading of the “Kaddish” and a prayer to the Most Merciful by Rabbi Eliyahu Blum. The rally will continue with the lighting of memorial candles by the urban youth organizations and movements, as well as the military training schools. Later in the evening, the mayor will deliver his remarks, followed by the chairman of the Municipal Youth Council, Yuval Degani.
This year the rally will be marked by “a lost community” and will deal with the connection between the tragedies of the Holocaust and the events of “Black Sabbath” on 7.10.23, in which many communities were lost and others were damaged and are still trying to recover and rebuild themselves. The entrance is free.
The next day, Monday (May 6), at 9:45 a.m., in the conference hall of the City Hall, the ceremony “For each person, there is a name”, where the public will be invited to read the names of their loved ones who perished in the Holocaust. In the second part of the ceremony, a “Remembrance in the Living Room” meeting will be held , where Nativ Robinson will host Holocaust survivor Ms. Yehudit Oren for a conversation about life in the shadow of remembrance. The public is invited.
At the same time, a wreath-laying ceremony and the reading of “Yizkor” will begin in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations in the Ramat Alon neighborhood, near the Righteous Among the Nations monument, which was erected in memory of the Righteous Among the Nations who immigrated to Israel and lived in Haifa. The public is invited.
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Remembrance events in schools: The Eivshitz Municipal Holocaust Institute will hold a Holocaust Day ceremony on the eve of Holocaust Day (5.5), with the participation of teenagers and the Bnei Akiva youth movement. ” as well as a tour of “Mashua Letakum” monuments under the direction of Rabbi Aharon Finkelstein, the pedagogical director of the Eybshitz association.
In the community centers throughout the city, lectures, performances and memorial events will be held, which will deal with the testimonies of survivors: for example, at the “Beit Nagler” in Kiryat Haim, on Sunday, the 5th, a central rally will be held to mark Holocaust Day, which will bear the title: “The Jewish Community and its “, with the participation of the community of residents of the neighborhood.
“Memory in the Living Room”: On Thursday, May 2, at 6:00 p.m., a “Memory in the Living Room” evening with Holocaust survivor Shalom Teyer, a resident of the neighborhood, who will tell the fascinating story of his life.
The “Neva Yosef” community center will host on Sunday, May 5, at 6:00 p.m., Liat Cohen Belcher, deputy director of the Haifa and the Valleys district at the “Society for Community Centers”, for a “Memory in the Living Room” evening, where she will tell the story of her family and Tschernowitz community from her book, “Yesh Ishem”.
The next day, Monday, another “Remembrance in the Living Room” event will be held at the community center, under the title: “What happened to a 15-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl in World War II”, with the participation of Miri Winkler, a second generation Holocaust survivor.
