April is the month we commemorate the Holocaust. Here is what is doing around the metropolitan area:
YOM HASHOAH 2013—COMMUNITY EVENTS:
WHEN: April 5, 2013, 12:00 PM
WHERE: Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest Yom HaShoah Commemoration with local survivors and memorial candle-lighting ceremony. For more information, please contact holocaustcouncil@jfedgmw.org or call 973-929-3194.
WHEN: April 5, 2013, 12:30 PM – Holocaust Council Lunch & Learn*
WHERE: Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest Lunch & Learn: Holocaust survivor Gina Lanceter will discuss her husband Henry’s Holocaust experience in the Soviet Union. For more information, please contact holocaustcouncil@jfedgmw.org or call 973-929-3194. Lunch will be served.
*Please note: The Holocaust Council Lunch & Learn that was originally scheduled for Tues. April 9 has been rescheduled for Fri. April 5.
WHEN: April 5, 2013, 7:00 PM
WHERE: Temple B’nai Israel, 40 Whitenack Road, Basking Ridge, NJ
Barbara Wind, director of the Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest, will speak after Shabbat services. For more information please call (908) 204-1412.
WHEN: April 5, 2013, 8:00 PM
WHERE: Temple Emanu-El of West Essex, Northfield Rd, Livingston NJ
Annual Shabbat Yom HaShoah commemoration: Keynote Speaker Norbert Bikales will share his story as a German-Jewish survivor hidden in France as a child and protected by righteous gentiles. Norbert was featured in the documentary Children of Chabannes. For more information, please see http://www.emanuel.org/caring/holocaust/ or call (973) 992-5560.
WHEN: April 7, 2013, 11:00 AM
WHERE: Temple Beth Ahm Yisrael, 60 Temple Drive, Springfield, NJ
Yom HaShoah Commemoration and Program: Why New Jersey Leads The Nation In Holocaust Education presented by Dr. Paul B. Winkler, Executive Director, New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education. For more information, contact Shiri Haines at ExecDirector@tbaynj.org or (973) 376-0539 x 13.
WHEN: April 7, 2013, 5:00 PM
WHERE: Temple B’nai Abraham, 300 E. Northfield Rd, Livingston, NJ
Yom HaShoah Commemoration Service: guest speaker Jill Tejeda will discuss Teaching the Holocaust in High School: Social Studies Will Never be the Same. For more information, please call 973-994-2290 or visit www.tbanj.org.
WHEN: April 7, 2013, 6:45 PM
WHERE: Temple B’nai Shalom, 300 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ
Yom HaShoah Commemoration and Film Screening: Nicholas Winton: The Power of Good, which tells the story of one man who saved 669 children, followed by a Memorial Service for those who perished in the Holocaust. For more information call 973-731-0160 ext. 207 or e-mail programs@bnaishalom.net.
WHEN: April 7, 2013, 7:00 PM
WHERE: JCC on the Palisades, 411 Clinton Ave, Tenafly, NJ
Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration. Free. For information/registration: 201.408.1429. http://jccotp.org/category.aspx?catid=101
WHEN: April 8, 2013, 6:45 PM
WHERE: Wilkins Theatre, Kean University, 1000 Morris Ave, Union NJ
Yom HaShoah Commemoration: A Window Into the Holocaust, featuring a staged reading of excerpts from the play Windows, based on the experiences of a local survivor, by Melissa Schaffer. Students, ages 8-21, attending the event are eligible for a prize drawing for an iPad, courtesy of the Continuity Student Education Initiative. For more information and to RSVP: Pat Hazel, at 908-288-2416 or The Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest at holocaustcouncil@jfedgmw.org or 973-929-3194.
WHEN: April 8, 2013, 7:00 PM
In conjuction with Congregation Beth Torah, Florham Park-Madison Interfaith Council's Yom HaShoah Community Interfaith Service is being held this year at Grace Episcopal Church, 4 Madison Ave., Madison, NJ 07940. Harry Ettlinger, a Holocaust Survivor, WWII veteran and member of the “Monuments Men” who went around Europe to find stolen artwork and return it to the proper owners, will be this year's speaker.
WHEN: April 8, 2013, 7:30 PM*
WHERE: Teaneck High School Auditorium, Cranford Place, Teaneck, NJ
Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration with keynote speaker, Moshe Baran, partisan fighter and a special musical performance by Zalman Mlotek, artistic director of the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theater, and his sons, Elisha & Avram. *A reception for the survivors and their families will precede the program at 6:00 PM; to register for the Survivor Reception, please call Dena at (917) 334-0937. For more: http://www.teaneckyomhashoa.org/events.htm
WHEN: April 8, 2013, 7:30 PM
WHERE: Dolan Performance Hall, College of Saint Elizabeth, 2 Convent Rd, Morristown, NJ
Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance commemoration with an interfaith prayer service; remarks by Mark Weitzman, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Director of Government Affairs and Task Force Against Hate and Terrorism; and testimony by Sarah Wiener, Holocaust survivor from Poland, introduced by her daughter Dr. Deborah Rabner. Dessert reception will follow. For more: http://www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/040813YomMorristown.pdf
WHEN: April 9, 2013, 10:00 AM
WHERE: New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State St, Trenton, NJ
State of New Jersey Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Commemorating the Holocaust and Heroism, in honor of Raoul Wallenberg on his 100th birthday. For more information: http://www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/040913yom.pdf
WHEN: April 9, 2013, 4:30 PM
WHERE: Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Rd, West Windsor, NJ
Yom Ha Shoah Commemoration with speaker, Dr. Vera Goodkin, Holocaust survivor and author of In Sunshine and In Shadow, We Remember Them. For more information: http://www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/040913yom.pdf
WHEN: April 9, 2013, 7:00 PM
WHERE: University Hall, Rm. 1060, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Holocaust Remembrance, Student Competition and Conference Lecture: The Warsaw Ghetto: History and Memory 70 years later with Samuel Kassow, Trinity College, author Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive.
For more: http://www.montclair.edu/arts/university-art-galleries-george-segal-gallery
WHEN: April 10, 2013, 10:00 AM
WHERE: Baldwin Gym, Drew University, Madison, NJ
Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Screening of The Boys of Terezin, with special appearance by Sidney Taussig, one of the boys. For more information: http://www.drew.edu/chs/events, 973/408-3600 or ctrholst@drew.edu
WHEN: April 14, 2013, 4:00 PM
WHERE: Jubilee Hall, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
36th Annual South Orange/Maplewood Interfaith Yom HaShoah Commemoration, preceded by the traditional Walk of Remembrance at 3:15 PM in South Orange. Keynote speaker Larry Pantirer, son of “Schindler Jew” Murray Pantirer, will discuss “He who saves one life saves the world.” For more information, please e-mail rememberandtell@yahoo.com
