International Holocaust Remembrance Day Observance

“Auschwitz and the Holocaust — Things You Probably Didn’t Know”

Har Zion Holocaust Rembrance Day observance is on Wednesday, January 28. We will begin 15 minute service, followed a “sharing of the truth ” (see below) by Har Zion member Rya Ben Shir. In her 45-minute presentation, entitled “Auschwitz and the Holocaust -– Things You Probably Didn’t Know,” Rya will recount what she learned in her study of Auschwitz when she was in Poland over the summer.

About Holocaust Remembrance Day

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,

“The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution.
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“[W]e remember Holocaust victims by reading their names, by lighting candles, and by learning about the Holocaust. All of us can mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day by sharing the truth of the Holocaust and by confronting antisemitism and hate in our daily lives.”

Join Har Zion’s remembrance to help keep the awareness of the Holocaust alive.