Yom Hashoah

Yom Hashoah, Memorial to the Six Million, Remembrance of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and All Resistance, will be held on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 2:30 pm at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center located at 6255 N. Santa Monica Boulevard in Whitefish Bay.  

The keynote speak is author and child of Holocaust survivors Lev Raphael. The author of 19 books, many of which are regularly taught  in Jewish Studies classes around the country, Raphael has been called a “pioneer” in writing fiction and non-fiction about members of the Second Generation—children of Holocaust survivors.

The Yom Hashoah event will also include an Intergenerational program starting at 1 p.m. aimed at students 9 years old and up, along with parents and grandparents. This program is designed to provide young people with a sensitive, meaningful awareness of the Holocaust through discussions with survivors and the Second Generation. In addition, the Holocaust Youth Essay Contest Winners will be recognized. This contest is sponsored by the Habush Family Foundation.  The Yom Hashoah Planning Committee is chaired by Amy H. Shapiro.

Yom Hashoah is a program of the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center and the Nathan & Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center of the Coalition for Jewish Learning, the education program of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation. The event is free and open to the public.

For additional information please contact Dorene Paley, Community Services Director, at 414-967-8217 or at dpaley@jccmilwaukee.org