Yom HaShoah Commemoration
April 19 at 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Please join us for our annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration featuring stirring readings, music and a candle-lighting ceremony. Rabbi Aaron Starr and Hazzan David Propis from Congregation Shaarey Zedek will lead the program. This program is free to attend and registration is not required. Valet parking will be available.
Holocaust survivors from our community will be joined by family and friends to light memorial candles. With poems, songs, and prayers we will remember and honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Following the event, all who wish to light a memorial candle are invited to do so at The Center’s Eternal Flame.Â
Presented in Cooperation with
C.H.A.I.M. – Children of Holocaust –Survivors Association In Michigan
Hidden Children and Child Survivors Association of Michigan
Program for Holocaust Survivors and Families, a Service of Jewish Senior Life
The Shaarit Haplaytah Organization
The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
Free Admission
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