Yom Hashoah V'Hagvurah
When: | May 4, 2016 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM |
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Where: |
Green Road Synagogue 2437 S. Green Road Beachwood, OH 44122 |
Contact: | yomhashoah@jcfcleve.org (216-593-2834) |
Summary: | Please join us for Yom Hashoah V'Hagvurah, Cleveland commemoration of the Holocaust and heroism. |
Event Details
Description
Please join us for Yom Hashoah V'Hagvurah, Cleveland's annual commemoration of the Holocaust and heroism.
Join our community to remember the Holocaust with this year's theme, "Out of the Darkness: Into a New Life."
Featuring:
- Keynote Speaker, Sean Martin, Ph.D., Western Reserve Historical Society
- Candle-lighting by Holocaust Survivors and their families
- March of generations
-Create Arts Awards
We hope you'll join us.
Free and open to the community. Registration not required.
This program is coordinated by the Kol Israel Foundation and the Jewish Federation of Cleveland.
About the Speaker:
Sean Martin is the assistant curator for Jewish history at the Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS), where he oversees the Cleveland Jewish Archives, a special collecting program set up by WRHS in 1976 with the cooperation of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland. He collects materials— usually correspondence, photographs and documents from individuals or organizations— that help tell the stories of the region’s Jewish community.
Martin holds master’s degrees in History and Yiddish language and literature, and a PhD in East European Jewish history from the Ohio State University. He reads, speaks, and translates Polish and Yiddish, and is the author of the book entitled A Stitch in Time: The Cleveland Garment Industry, and has written several articles about Cleveland and Polish Jewish history.
Address
Green Road Synagogue
2437 S. Green Road
Beachwood, OH 44122
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- 2016-05-04 19:00:00 2016-05-04 20:30:00 America/New_York Yom Hashoah V'Hagvurah Please join us for Yom Hashoah V'Hagvurah, Cleveland commemoration of the Holocaust and heroism. (http://www.jewishcleveland.org/news/upcoming-events/yom_hashoah_vhagvurah_2016) Green Road Synagogue yomhashoah@jcfcleve.org
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