San Francisco’s Observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day Honors Young Artists, Musicians, and Poets on May 1
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The Righteous Among the Nations Award Will Be Presented by the State of Israel as Part of the Yom HaShoah Ceremony

For Immediate Release: Thursday, April 21, 2016 (San Francisco, CA) – Community members are invited to observe Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Sunday, May 1 at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. This year’s observance, titled Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Artists, Musicians, and Poets, will include performances, workshops, and a Memorial Ceremony focusing on the young artists, musicians, and scholars whose lives were cut short because of the Holocaust.

Yom Hashoah: Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Artists, Musicians, and Poets

During the Memorial Ceremony there will be a special presentation of The Righteous Among The Nations Award by the Consul General of Israel Dr. Andy David. The esteemed honor is given by the State of Israel to non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jewish lives. John van Dorp will be accepting the award on behalf of his grandparents, the late Abram and Cornelia van Dorp who lived in Schipluiden, Holland and hid a Jewish couple in their apartment for nine months (1943 – 1944). Their incredible story includes the family’s outwitting Nazi soldiers after they broke into the next-door apartment. John van Dorp will be joined on stage by Jack Menco the grandson of the Jewish couple, Solomon and Helena Nihom, who hid in the van Dorp’s apartment.

San Francisco’s Holocaust Remembrance Day will open with the film screening of Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh, a documentary about the young Hungarian poet. A discussion with noted Jewish literary scholars Chana Kronfeld (UC Berkeley), and Giddon Ticotsky (Stanford University) will follow.

Attendees will also have the option of choosing from five workshops where they can hear from Holocaust survivors and other Holocaust authorities.

The event includes a continuous reading of names of victims of the Holocaust from 3:00 pm onward. If community members would like to have the names of their loved ones included during this reading, they should fill out this online form (http://tinyurl.com/gwhm9ve) or call 419-449-1213.

WHAT: The San Francisco Observance of Yom HaShoah is a community-wide event and is free and open to the public. The event is presented in partnership by Jewish Family and Children’s Services’ Holocaust Center, Lehrhaus Judaica, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, and the Jewish Community Relations Council.

WHERE: Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street

WHEN:  Sunday, May 1, 2016, 1:30 – 6:15 pm – attendees are welcome to attend all or any portion of the program.

SCHEDULE:

1:30 pm  Screening of Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

3:00 pm  Reading of the Names – On a continuous cycle

3:15 pm  Choose from five workshops featuring Holocaust survivors and experts

5:00 pm  Memorial Ceremony
The Righteous Among The Nations Award; Cantor Sharon Bernstein, Randall Weiss, and The Bridge Players perform compositions by Hans Krasa and Gideon Klein; Mira Shelub leads in the Partisan Song, and Cantor Henry Drejer leads El Maleh Rachamim and the Mourner’s Kaddish.

VISUALS: In addition to the presentation of the Righteous Among the Nations Award and the presence of survivors and other renowned Holocaust experts, more than 500 community members are expected to participate in San Francisco’s Observance of Yom HaShoah.

Register online and find out more information about the event, including workshop descriptions, at www.yomhashoahsf2016.eventbrite.com.

Contact Leah Sheldon at [email protected] or 415-449-1284.

 

Posted by Admin on April 21, 2016