HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
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The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance will observe his year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day “Yom Hoshoah” on Sunday, May 4, from 2pm to 4pm at Congregation Tiferet Israel (10909 Hillcrest Road). Yom Hoshoah is a day set aside each year to remember the six million Jews who were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime during World War II.
This year’s program, entitled “We are the Shoes,” draws its theme from a Moshe Szulsztein poem, which personifies the Holocaust victims’ shoes. “We are the shoes, we are the last witnesses/ We are shoes from grandchildren and grandfathers/ From Prague, Paris and Amsterdam/ And because we are only made of fabric and leather/ And not of blood and flesh/ Each one of us avoided the hellfire.”
During the ceremony, six Remembrance Lights will be lit, each one honoring a different Dallas-area Holocaust survivor. In addition, author and film producer Robert Edsel will announce the winners of the state-wide art and writing contest.
An official mayoral proclamation declaring Sunday, May 4, 2008, as a Day of Remembrance in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, and in honor of the survivors, as well as the rescuers and liberators is scheduled to be read.
Overall, this compelling program will serve to remember the past through honoring the victims of the Holocaust and warn of future atrocities by proclaiming that indifferent people cannot build a different world. For more information, please contact the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance at 214-741-7500.
