Yom Hashoah, Memorial to the Six Million, Remembrance of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and All Resistance, will be held on Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 2:30 p.m. at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center located at 6255 N. Santa Monica Boulevard in Whitefish Bay.
The keynote speak is Sam Harris, a survivor and president of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center. The Yom Hashoah event will also include an Intergenerational family program starting at 1 p.m. aimed at students 9 years old and up, along with parents and grandparents, and will feature face-to-face small group experiences with Holocaust survivors. 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 and co-chair Leo Kleiner.
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.
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For additional information please contact Dorene Paley, Community Services Director, at 414-967-8217 or atdpaley@jccmilwaukee.org
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