Yom Hashoah
Community Holocaust Commemoration: From Resistance to Remembrance
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Yom Hashoah V’Hagvurah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) is designated by the State of Israel on the Hebrew date of 27 Nisan. The community joins together in our annual memorial (yizkor) service, presented in partnership with the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem. The event includes the participation of several community organizations. For 2013, Yom Hashoah begins at sundown on Sunday, April 7. The commemoration will be held at 11:00 AM on Sunday, April 7, at the Lebovic Jewish Community Campus
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Join us for the community Holocaust commemoration, in honour of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
New location: The Lebovic Jewish Community Campus
Free Shuttle Bus available, by reservation only.
Co-Sponsors:
Canadian Society for Yad Vashem
Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre
UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
Participating Organizations: B’nai Brith Canada, The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Consulate General of Israel, General Wingate Branch 256 Royal Canadian Legion, Hillel of Greater Toronto, Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Canada, Jewish War Veterans of Canada, Toronto Board of Rabbis, Toronto Council of Hazzanim, Vaad Ha’Rabbanim.
Read Stephen Adler (Associate Director of Ontario Government Relations at the Centre of Israel and Jewish Affairs) on Commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Toronto Sun (2012).
Yom Hashoah 2013
Image: (moving clockwise from top)
Mordechai Anielewicz, commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Dvora Goldcorn, Wanda Tetlbaum, Yitzchak Zuckerman, Zivia Lubetkin, Marek Edelman
Middle: Monument to the Ghetto Heroes by Nathan Rapoport, Warsaw, Poland (credit Michael Rajzman).
Images from the 2012 commemoration held at Beth Tzedec Congregation. Photos credit: Michael Rajzman.
Images from the 2011 commemoration held at Earl Bales Park. Photo credits: Michael Rajzman.
