Holocaust Martyrs ‘and Heroes’ Remembrance Day 2022 will be celebrated tonight (Wednesday) and tomorrow at ceremonies and events throughout the country, as well as in Herzliya, Kfar Saba and Raanana. This day is dedicated to commemorating the six million people who were murdered by the Nazis and the memory of the acts of heroism and rebellion at that time. According to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) at the end of 2021, the number of people living in Israel and recognized by the Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority was about 165,000.
There are currently 2,628 Holocaust survivors living in Herzliya, Of these, about 935 are patients in the ward for the welfare of the elderly population. The main ceremony in the city, “Shards of Memory”, will be held tonight (Wednesday) at 20:00, at the Performing Arts Hall, 15 Jabotinsky St. You can register for the ceremony on the municipal website: https://bit.ly/3ObPoLZ
Simultaneously with the main ceremony, the event will take place at 20:00 – “Testimony. Woman. Heroism”, a Holocaust and heroism memorial event hosted by Holocaust researcher Dr. Maya Gaz and featuring Yardena Arazi, Talila Kush and the artists Maya and Gal Rave from Terezin. The event will take place in Tau – Culture Art and content, and will consist of several parts: research on mothers in the Holocaust and changing maternal patterns of Dr. Maya Gaz, interview with Talila Kush on her new book she wrote as her mother “Martha’s notebooks” and published now, interview with the creators of the Maya and Gal Rave art project In memory of the Holocaust – “Days Out of Time – An Artist Meets Testimony” as well as an interview with Jordana Arazi about her mother, aunt and aunts (the Luanja family) who rescued thousands of children as part of underground rescue operations held in France. The event is in collaboration with the Herzliya Women’s Administration and is open to the general public, but is conditional on pre-registration on the Tau website, at the link: https://bit.ly/37d98h4
At the same time, at 20:00, the film “You Should Have Been There” will be screened at the Neve Amal Community Center, a documentary in which comedian Tal Friedman embarks on a journey following humor in the Holocaust, which was a defense mechanism for those who experienced its horrors firsthand. Survivors, who even in inhumane conditions, drew from humor the power to continue.Open to the general public, must register in advance on the Herzliya Community Centers website, at the link: https://bit.ly/3joWbUe
A little later tonight, at 8:30 PM, a memorial event will be held in the living room of the Herzliya Cinematheque called “What is the Holocaust?” The event is attended by Dr. Joel Raphael, historian of the Jewish people and the Land of Israel, Israeli author, editor and journalist, Diana Glastian, Armenian-Israeli, student at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television – Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Arts Utin, a researcher at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television – Faculty of Arts at Tel Aviv University. The event is moderated by Galit Roichman, screenwriter and film lecturer.
At the end of the event, the film “The Round Number” will be screened, a documentary film with a historical and personal journey that examines how the number six million was established and consecrated as a symbol of the Holocaust. The attempt to decipher the source of the mythological narrator leads the story far beyond statistics, to disturbing historical, political and identity questions that resonate powerfully to this day. Director: David Fisher. 60 min. Abrit. Hebrew Subtitles. Admission to the event is free, but is conditional on booking in advance on the Cinematheque website, at the link: https://bit.ly/3O05JTV
As part of the Holocaust Martyrs ‘and Heroes’ Remembrance Day in Herzliya, ‘Memory in the Living Room’ events will take place today and tomorrow (Thursday) 27-28.4, including meetings in the living room with Holocaust survivors or members of the second and third generations. The meetings will be held in various locations throughout the city: Beit Keinan, the house in Sirkin, the Neve Israel and Neve Amirim community centers, the Nahalat Ada community center, Beit Rishonim, the courtyard of the central synagogue in Nof Yam. Pre-register. For the list of locations, and to register, you can enter the municipal website, at the links:
27.4: https://bit.ly/37caDN2
28.4: https://bit.ly/3Ehq2aW
The Herzliya Municipality notes that throughout the year, a variety of services and activities are provided to Holocaust survivors, including: “Connecting” – as part of which 100 Holocaust survivors will be connected from their homes to a digital club that will operate 6 days a week from morning to evening. The connection via home television and with the help of the Unifer company; ‘Sweet Shabbat’ – a project in which volunteers come to Holocaust survivors every Friday and give them a package with Shabbat challah, and other food products; “Testimony Theater” – an intergenerational meeting in a therapeutic educational process in which the stories of the survivors are presented through the students in a theatrical performance; A supportive community for Holocaust survivors – a community in which the survivors enjoy the services of a distress button, community leader, social coordinator and medical services. As well as the Mofet Holocaust Survivors Club – an enriched social club for Holocaust survivors, where the survivors meet three times a week.
The Mayor of Herzliya, Moshe Fadlon, said: “Holocaust survivors are a constant source of inspiration for us. Thanks to their heroic spirit, determination and supreme willpower, they were able to reach Israel, and here create and establish a state and society of which we are all proud. “To the Holocaust survivors who live in it and make it as easy as possible for them. I want to express our appreciation and appreciation for the survivors, and ensure that we will never forget what happened, and we will always do everything we can to help them and stand by them.”
About 1,700 Holocaust survivors currently live in Raanana. Raanana will mark Holocaust Martyrs ‘and Heroes’ Remembrance Day with a series of events, centered on a memorial assembly called “We All Need Grace,” which will take place tonight (Wednesday) April 27 at the Yad Labanim plaza, at 8:00 p.m. The rally program includes lighting a memorial beacon by Carmela Spiro, directed by Linoy Bar Geffen, narration by Yaakov Zeda, Shira Ruhama Raz, cantorship by Moshe Fischel, and actors Natalie Zimberg, and the ensemble of musicians and the Inbar Choir from the city’s music center. In addition, about 1,000 soul candles bearing the names of Holocaust victims, family members of Raanana residents, will be lit by the youth at the rally, as part of the “Remembering the Perished” project run by the municipality. For the convenience of the residents, the rally will be broadcast live from YouTube and the municipal Facebook.
Even before the ceremony, a memorial event will be held in the living room at 19:00, with the survivor Pinchas Melchior, who will tell his story in the Holocaust. The event will take place at the youth complex, 11 Industrial Street. Admission is free, but it is recommended to register in advance on the Kol Tikat website.
Tomorrow, Thursday, April 28, the “Everybody Has a Name” ceremony will take place, starting at 11:00 in the lobby of the Yad Labanim House. During it, the names of those who perished in the Holocaust will be read by the participants, including members of the municipal youth council, youth organizations and city residents. The public is invited to come and read the names of their loved ones. Later that day, at 5:00 p.m., another event will be held as part of the “Memory in the Living Room,” designed for teens at the Municipal Youth Center, Presidents’ Garden.
Moshe Shabtai, head of the senior population team in the Social Services Division of the Raanana Municipality, talks about the municipal activities for Holocaust survivors in the city: “There are two projects, a social club that includes cultural meetings once a week, Volunteers who come to the homes of the survivors and dispel their loneliness. In addition, financial assistance is provided to Holocaust survivors according to the criteria of the Ministry of Welfare, which includes, among other things, food baskets and tax deductions. On Holocaust Remembrance Day itself, a ceremony will be held at Cafe Europa in the city, which includes a reading of poetry and six memorial candles will be lit.
The mayor, Haim Broida, said: “Holocaust Martyrs ‘and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, on which we all gather to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust is a unifying and unifying point in the character of the city of Raanana and the State of Israel as a whole. And our future as a free people in our country.The mind never grasps and will never grasp the horrors of the Holocaust, and I, too, as a member of a family of Holocaust survivors, have ceased to try to understand.All we have left is to honor the Holocaust survivors The historical and moral to pass on the memory to future generations. “
There are currently 1,553 Holocaust survivors living in Kfar Saba. About 1,000 of them are over the age of 90 and 570 are over the age of 80. Tonight (Wednesday) 27.4 at 20:00, the Municipality of Kfar Saba will hold the Central Municipal Assembly to mark Holocaust Martyrs ‘and Heroes’ Remembrance Day through the Events Department of the Society and Community Division. The gathering for the rally, which will take place at the Heichal Tarbut plaza (35 Jerusalem St.), will begin at 7:30 p.m. The rally will be accompanied by a sign language translation and transcript and will be broadcast live on the municipal Facebook page.
Simultaneously with the main event, at 19:30, the Kfar Saba Municipality, through the Senior Citizens Administration in the Community and Society Division, in collaboration with Zichron B’Salon and Aluma, will hold an open evening of “Zichron B’Salon” at the Reisel House at 12 Geula St., Room 10, 2nd floor . The event is open to everyone without prior registration and will be hosted by Batya Moravchik, a second generation of Holocaust survivor parents, Samson and Tzasha Kempinski.
In addition, at 8:00 PM, there will be a “Memory in the Living Room” event at the Youth Center, in the Market Yard complex, Heroes of Israel 4, on the second floor. For the past four years, the event has hosted the late Holocaust survivor Dov Weinman, who passed away this year at the age of 102. Weinman is very popular on the center island and was known for donating scholarships to students in the city. The municipality.
The next day (Thursday) 28.4, the main Holocaust Remembrance and Heroism Day ceremony will be held next to the Holocaust Memorial and Heroism Memorial in the old cemetery on Nordau Street. The ceremony will begin with the siren at 10:00. Gathering and arrival at the event will be possible starting at 09:45.
At the same time, there will be dozens of “memory in the living room” events throughout Kfar Saba, which will host survivors and second-generation Holocaust survivors. You can join the meetings on the municipality’s website at https://www.kfar-saba.muni.il/events/1221/
The Kfar Saba Municipality and the Department of Senior Citizens in the Community Social Services Division, together with the Savyon Association (Association for the Senior Citizen) and the Municipal Committee for Holocaust Survivors, operate a number of unique services for Holocaust survivors, including a free medical service for Holocaust survivors. Experts in all fields; “Point of right” of the “Spring for Holocaust Survivors” organization – a service that aims to exercise the rights of Holocaust survivors living in the city. In this framework, Holocaust survivors come and receive full professional advice about the rights they are entitled to according to the law and the exercise of the rights in full without any cost on their part; “Meeting in the Village” Club – a club for Holocaust survivors run by the “Savyon” association. The club is intended for Holocaust survivors and their spouses and its activities include a meeting of friends, lectures, plays, trips, various activities that enrich the intergenerational relationship in partnership with students from various schools in the city and POM (the Central School of the IDF Command and Staff).
The mayor, Rafi Saar, said: “We remember the six million people who were murdered in the Holocaust by the Nazis and continue to uphold the duty of commemoration. As the years go by, and Holocaust deniers raise their heads, the importance of commemoration increases “To tell their story. Commemorating the stories of Holocaust survivors, honoring their heroism and passing on memories and experiences to the next generation is a first-rate national and social obligation. We will remember and not forget.”
It should be noted that as part of the Holocaust and Heroism Day events, changes are expected in the traffic arrangements in the city. On Thursday, between 6:00 AM and 12:00 PM, Nordau Street will be closed to traffic, in the section between Ruppin Street and Tel Aviv-Yafo Street. Between these hours, parking will not be allowed in the parking lot in front of the cemetery.
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