International Holocaust Remembrance Day will take place today (Thursday) so the municipality will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a number of events. Mayor Raz Kinstlich: “Our mission is to remember and commemorate the Holocaust survivors. As a municipality, we embrace them and give them the best care throughout the year.”
Posted on: 27.1.22 04:08
This coming International Holocaust Remembrance Day will take place, and the Rishon Lezion Municipality will mark this at a conference to be held in the City Council Hall, and in the presence of the Mayor, Raz Kinstlich. The conference will feature the words of the twin mayors of Rishon Lezion – Kharkiv (Ukraine), Debrecen (Hungary), Monster (Germany), Krasnodar (Russia) and Lublin (Poland) – and will also be attended by about 50 trainees from youth relations programs, Holocaust survivors and other representatives From the twin cities.
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As stated, the Rishon Lezion Municipality has an agreement with the “Spring for Holocaust Survivors” association, which includes a service for exercising financial rights for survivors, who are exposed to the association with the help of publications by the municipality and the social facts. As part of the agreement, an expert lawyer from the Association for Personal Meetings that is pre-arranged with Holocaust survivors comes to the Senior Citizens’ Division in the city every week. All this in addition to the telephone advice provided to them.
As you may recall, the Rishon Lezion Municipality operates many programs for Holocaust survivors, including a unique hotline composed of volunteers, some of whom are also Holocaust survivors, who give a sympathetic ear; The Perach Survivor Project, which provides a basket of services to survivors, meets their needs and strengthens their sense of belonging to the city. In addition, the Social Integration Administration employs many volunteers who maintain contact with the survivors, including a resident patrol Volunteers also run a hotline, in which they regularly call Holocaust survivors, ask for their well-being and make relevant community services and social conferences accessible to them. In addition, the program initiates and organizes a number of free Holocaust survivor events.
“It is our duty as a society to remember and embrace Holocaust survivors,” said Acting and Deputy Mayor and Welfare portfolio holder Moti Ajami.
Mayor Raz Kinstlich: “Holocaust survivors are the beating heart on which this city is founded. Thanks to their sacrifice and their stories of heroism, we have the right to live in the State of Israel today. Our mission is to remember and commemorate them every time, and I am happy that we as a municipality embrace and give them “The best care and help required throughout the year. I am very proud of the many activities that the municipality runs for the survivors, and we are sure that we will continue in the coming year.”