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1 Yom Ha’SHoaH v’HagvuraH Commemoration Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013

Yom Ha’SHoaH v’HagvuraH Commemoration

In memory of the six million Jews who perished during the Holocaust

A Community-Wide Memorial Observance

The Jewish Community Relations Council presents

Sunday, April 7, 2013 | 27 5773 ניסןCongregation Har Shalom 11510 Falls Road, Potomac, MD 20854


program

National Anthem Hazzan Henrique Ozur Bass / Hazan, Congregation Har Shalom

Memorial Candle Lighting 6 candles (p. 2) Song: Ani Maamin Hazzan Henrique Ozur Bass (p. 3)

Welcome Ronald Paul, MD / Chair, JCRC Holocaust Commission Minute of Silence Greetings Rabbi Adam Raskin / Rabbi, Congregation Har Shalom Memorial to the Destroyed Bernie & Francine Lubran (p. 3) Communities

Poem: “Freedom” Edith Mayer Cord (p. 4)

Song: “Acheinu” Kol Sasson

Introduction of Keynote speaker Joe Sandler / President, JCRC of Greater Washington Keynote Address Dr. Walter Reich (p. 5) Poem: “Zachor” Herman Taube (p. 6) Annual Reconfirmation of the Legacy of the Holocaust Nesse Godin (p. 7) The Pledge of Acceptance Michlean Amir (p. 8) Pledge of Continuation Stephan Kallus (p. 8)

Song: El Maleh Rachamin Hazzan Henrique Ozur Bass (p. 9)

Holocaust Kaddish Rabbi Adam Raskin and Herman Taube (p. 10) All Rabbis are invited to the Bima to lead the reciting of the Kaddish.

Hymn of the Partisans Congregation, Hazzan Henrique Ozur Bass (p. 11)

Hatikvah Congregation, Hazzan Henrique Ozur Bass and Kol Sasson (p. 12)

Remember a Child Program (p. 13)

Acknowledgements and Thanks (p. 14)

Yom Ha’SHoaH v’HagvuraH Commemoration Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013 3

Candle 1 Halina Peabody Joe and nancy Yasharoff Hannah and Olivia Yasharoff

Halina was born in Krakow, Poland. After her father was arrested and sent to a Siberian work camp by the Soviets, she, her mother and her sister used false papers to hide in plain site from the Nazis in Jaroslaw, Poland. After the war, Halina’s family was reunited and settled in London, England. Halina immigrated to the U.S. in 1968 and today volunteers at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Halina has 2 sons and 2 granddaughters.

Candle 2 Manya Friedman Gary Friedman Joey Friedman

Manya was born in Chmielnik, a small town in central Poland. She is a survivor of the Sosnowiec Ghetto, forced labor camps, and Rechlin and Ravensbruck concentration camps. Manya’s family, including her mother, father and two brothers, perished in Auschwitz. She was liberated by the Swedish Red Cross in 1945 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1950. Manya has one daughter and one son and one grandson.

Candle 3 Sylvia Rozines Greg Rozines

Sylvia was born in Lodz, Poland. Sylvia is a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto where she and her family lived from 1939-1944. When the ghetto was liquidated, her parents and sister worked cleaning out the ghetto, while Sylvia was hidden from the Nazis in a factory basement. After the ghetto was liquidated, Sylvia, her older sister Dora, and a younger cousin, Isaac, were three of only twelve children who survived the Lodz Ghetto. Sylvia was liberated in 1945 by the Russian army. She has one son and two grandchildren.

Candle 4 alfred Traum Yael Traum Isaac and Sophie Sutrovsky

Freddie was born in Vienna, Austria. He and his sister, Ruth, were sent on one of the Kindertransports to London in 1939 to escape. Freddie and Ruth lived out the war in both London and the English countryside. After the war, Freddie and Ruth learned their entire family had perished. Freddie served in both the British and Israeli armies after the war. Freddie married another Holocaust survivor, Josiane and they emigrated to the U.S. in 1963. Together they have three children and 2 grandchildren.

memorial candle lightingFrom Generation to Generation מדור לדור

All Holocaust survivors are invited to stand and be honored as the candles are lit.

Candle 5 Katie altenberg Marilyn Falik Jackie Williamowsky

Katie was born in Vienna, Austria and escaped to Hungary in 1938. She is a survivor of the Kistarcsa concentration camp and Budapest Ghetto. She, her father and brother survived in one of Raoul Wallenberg’s protected houses for some time. Her family was liberated in 1945 and she emigrated to the U.S. 1948. She has 2 children and 3 grandchildren.

Marilyn is the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Morris and Helene Falik from Stryj/Lvov, Poland. Morris and Helene were married in May 1939. They left the Stryj ghetto with family and friends for the nearby forests, surviving much of the time in underground bunkers and were liberated by the Russian Army. In January 1951, they emigrated and settled in New Jersey, raising two daughters, and in the fullness of time, becoming grandparents. Morris and Helene are buried in Jerusalem.

Candle 6 William eisner larry Goldkind Jennifer Beekman

William was born in Austria. William and his father left Austria in 1939 after his father was arrested and then released from Dachau. His family including his mother and grandparents went to Shanghai, China by way of Italy. They stayed in Shanghai for 10 years, first while free, then under Japanese occupation, all the while trying to get to the U.S. Under the threat of communism, in 1949, the Joint Organization arranged for William’s family to leave Shanghai. They left on a ship which arrived in San Francisco and traveled through the U.S. to Ellis Island where they were not allowed to leave the ship. They then sailed to Bari, Italy where they disembarked and were taken by truck to Trani, Italy. From Trani they were transported to a refugee camp near Haifa, Israel. After one year of persistence, William’s mother secured U.S. visas for their family and they emigrated in 1950. William and his wife, Rossalyn, have been married for 54 years. They have 3 sons and 5 grandchildren.

Jennifer is the grandaughter of Sophie and Nat Gorodetzky, who were both born in Poland. Nat, who lost his parents and much of his family in the war, is a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and several concentration camps. Sophie escaped the Warsaw Ghetto and after her capture with false papers, was tortured as a political prisoner at Ravensbruck.


memorial to destroyed communities Presented by Bernie & Francine Lubran

Israel’s Yad Vashem was established by legislation in 1953 stating, “A memorial authority, Yad Vashem, is hereby created in Jerusalem... for the communities, synagogues, movements and organizations, public, cultural, educational, religious, and charitable institutions that were destroyed and ruined by the evil stratagem to wipe the name of Israel and its culture off the face of the earth.” Part of our responsibility as the Jewish Community is to continue this legacy by remembering the Jewish communities of Europe destroyed by the Nazi machine.

The Holocaust caused the destruction of thousands of ancient and flourishing communities in the European countries which fell under Nazi domination. These communities were the scenes of generations of vibrant and flourishing Jewish life which grew up wherever Jews settled. No city, town or village was too small to escape the diabolical schemes of the Nazis to annihilate the Jewish people. Six million Jews perished, but 20,000 Jewish communities also were destroyed.

It is a sacred duty to commemorate the names of these communities. Please join in reciting their names

At the conclusion of the service, please take a moment to view the photos memorializing these 19 communities.

songAni Maaminאני מאמין

Ani ma’amin, Be’emuna shelema

Beviat hamashiach ani ma’amin Beviat hamashiach, ma’amin Beviat hamashiach ani ma’amin Beviat hamashiach, ma’amin

Veaf al pi sheyitmahmeha Im kol zeh, achake loh Veaf al pi sheyitmahmeha Im kol zeh, achake loh

Im kol zeh, im kol zeh, achake loh Achake bechol yom sheyavoh Im kol zeh, im kol zeh, achake loh Achake bechol yom sheyavoh

I believe with complete faith In the coming of the Messiah, I believe Believe in the coming of the Messiah In the coming of the Messiah, I believe Believe in the coming of the Messiah And even though he may tarry Nonetheless I will wait for him And even though he may tarry Nonetheless I will wait for him Nonetheless, I will wait for him I will wait every day for him to come Nonetheless, I will wait for him I will wait every day for him to come

austriaBelgiumBulgaria

CzechoslovakiaestoniaFrance

GermanyGreece

HungaryItaly

latvialithuania

luxembourgnorwayPoland

RomaniaSoviet Union

The netherlandsYugoslavia

למה אמונה ש אני מאמין בבביאת המשיח

יתמהמה ואף על פי שכל יום עם כל זה אחכה לו ב


poem

FreedomWritten and read by Edith Mayer Cord

Edith M. Cord was born and raised in Vienna, Austria. Edith’s family fled from the Nazis to Italy and

then to France. Her father and brother were murdered in Auschwitz while she and her mother struggled

to survive in hiding. This poem was written on the day Edith successfully crossed into Switzerland

from Nazi-occupied France after hours of trudging in the mud through the woods. At the time,

Edith was a teenager who had hidden in plain sight in various schools and a convent under a false

identity. She crossed into Switzerland with 30 other teenagers and a 5 year old boy.

LibertéMon rêve est réalité Nous voilà en liberté! Plus de cache-cache,Plus de mensonges,Plus de faux papiers,Plus rien qui me ronge.

Je ne veux point penser au lendemain.Pour aujourd’hui nous sommes tous réunisEt ici on ne nous veut que du bien.

Est-ce vrai que je suis libre?Il me semble que je suis ivre!Je me laisse aller à ce déliceCar fini est le suppliceDe sans cesse jouer la comédieSans jamais montrer son ennui.

Mais désormais tout cela est finiEt j’aspire de nouveau aux douceurs de la vie.

Camp de Claparède, Suisse

Le 23 mai 1944.

FreedomMy dream is realityWe are free!

No more hidingNo more lyingNo more false papers,Nothing to trouble me.

I do not want to think about tomorrow.For today we are all togetherAnd here no one will harm us.

Is it true that I am free?I think that I am drunk!I let myself feel this delightBecause ended is the tortureOf always pretendingWithout ever showing my true feelings.

But now all this is behind me.And I yearn again for the sweetness of life.

Switzerland, May 23, 1944.

Translated from the French.


keynote addressPresented by Dr. Walter Reich

Walter Reich, a practicing psychiatrist, is the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics

and Human Behavior, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at The George Washington

University; a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and a former Director

of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Dr. Reich has written and lectured widely on the Holocaust, Holocaust memory, genocide, terrorism, human

rights, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, psychiatry, medical ethics and national and international affairs.

In addition to scholarly publications, he has written for general audiences in The New York Times, the

Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Harper’s and other newspapers and magazines.

Since the early 1970s, Dr. Reich has worked for the protection of human rights around the world, and

has led or served on numerous human-rights organizations. Dr. Reich has received numerous academic

and professional awards, including a Special Presidential Commendation from the American Psychiatric

Association in 1998 “in recognition of his distinguished leadership and scholarship as Director of the

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC , and of his being a renowned champion of

Human Rights.”

Dr. Reich was in residence several times at Mishkenot Sha’ananim in Jerusalem, a center for scholars,

artists, scientists and writers. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his wife, the novelist Tova Reich.

They have three children.

poemZachor

Written and Read by Herman TaubeThis is the 45th year Herman has written and recited a poem at Maryland’s

Yom Ha’Shoah Commemoration. Herman turned 95 years old this year.

אויסשוויץ באפרייאונג טאג"רמעות מפח ומפח טבעים ומקלוים."

דוד בר סללם

דער קוואל פון טרערן שעפן זיך נישט אויס,די ליידן פון די קרבנות איז געווען צו גרויס

צו קענען פארגעסן די בלוטיק-אפענע ווונדןוואס היילן זיך נישט, ווילן נישט פארשווונדן.

זיבעציק יאר פארביי צייט מלחמה אנהויב,טויזענטער שטעטלעך אוועק אין שטויב,

די וועלט מיט שווייגעניש האבן אויפגענומעןדי נייעס אז זעקס מיליאן זענען אומגעקומען.

איבער גאנץ אייראפע, געשאכטן ווי רינדער,א מיליאן און א האלב קליינע יידישע קינדערמיט יעדן יאר איז די צאל קרבנות געשטיגן,

און די "פרייע-וועלט" פירער, האבן געשוויגן.

פיל טויזענטער געקעמפט אין אויפשטאנדן,אין ווארשע, אויר אין אנדערע ווידערשטאנדן,יידן האבן געקעמפט אין אליערטע ארמיווען,

געהאלפן די רעשטלעך קרבנות באפרייען.

זיבעציק יאר שפעטער מיר זוכן נישט רחמנות,מיר טארן אבער נישט פארגעסן די קרבנות,

טויזענטער יידישע ישובים אוועק אין פלאמען,שטעטלעך אין לענדער פון ווו מיר שטאמען.

מיר וויינען אויפן, חורבן אייראפע" יעדן טאג,זכרון פון מיין משפחה אין הארץ איר טראג,

מיר וועלן זיי געדענקן אזוי לאנג ווי מיר לעבן,מיר וועלן נישט פארגעסן אין נישט פארגעבן!

הערמאן טאובע

The flow of tears will never diminish,The martyrs suffering were too greatfor us to forget their bloody sores,there is no healing, they don’t disappear.

Seven decades passed since WWIIthousands of cities turned to ashes,the world reacted in silence, to thenews that Six million Jews perished.

In Europe, they massacred like cattle.a million and a half Jewish children,every year, the immolation-tolls grew,and the free world leaders were dumb. . .

Thousands of Jews were fighting in the Warsaw Uprising and in other Ghetto’sJews served in the Allied armies, helpingto liberate the remnants of the camps.

Now, seventy-one years later, we don’tseek pity, but let’s not forget the martyrs,the thousands of Jewish communities gone,in countries, cities of our former homelands.

The date of January 27, ’45, day of AuschwitzLiberation, the U.N. declare this as MemorialDay for the victims of the Nazi’s brutalities.For us, survivors, it sounds like a mockery.

Survivors mourn every day the Holocaust.In our hearts we carry our lost dear-ones,we will remember them as long as we live.We will not forget them, we will not forgive!



the annual reconfirmation of the legacy of the holocaust

The Legacy of Holocaust SurvivorsPresented by Nesse Godin

Nesse Godin was born in Lithuania. She is a survivor of the Stuthoff Ghetto, a concentration camp, four Nazi labor camps and a death march. Today, Nesse and her husband Jack have three children,

seven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. In honor of the women who saved her life,

Nesse has dedicated her adult life to teaching and sharing memories of the Holocaust.

All survivors are invited to rise and join in the reading of the pledge

We take this oath!We take it in the shadows of flames, whose tongues scar the soul of our people; we vow with our sadness hidden, our faith renewed; we vow we shall never let the sacred memory of our perished six million brethren be forgotten or erased. We saw them hungry, in fear, we saw them at the threshold of death; true to their faith. We received their silence in silence, we merged their tears with ours, we are the remaining witnesses: of deportations, executions, mass graves, death camps, mute prayers and cries of revolt. The young, the old, the rich and the poor. The ghetto fighters, the partisans, the scholars and the messianic dreamers, the tradesmen and businessmen, the Chassidim and the Misnagdim. Like a cloud we saw them vanish. We take this oath!Vision becomes word, to be handed down from father to son, from mother to daughter, handed down from generation to generation. Zachor. Remember what the Nazi murderers and their accomplices did to our Jewish people. Remember them with rage and contempt. Remember what an indifferent world did to us and to itself. We must also remember the good deeds of the righteous gentiles. In 1981, We took this oath in Israel near the Kotel. There we handed down a legacy to our children in the shadows of the flames of six symbolic candles. Tonight, at this assembly, we reaffirm our oaths in the shadows of the flames of these six yarzheit candles honoring the memory of our six million, acheinu b’nai Yisrael, our Jewish brethren. We take this oath!Our memory will become words. Words of history of the Holocaust to be handed down from generation to generation, midor ledor. Unsere Kedoshim mir velen eich keinmol nit fargesen.


the pledge of acceptanceAccepted by Michlean Amir

All children of survivors are invited to rise and join in the reading of the pledge

We, who are your sons and daughters, belong to a generation in which every attempt was made for us to never exist. We, who represent your victory and your triumph over evil of unthinkable dimensions, accept the responsibility to preserve and protect the legacy of the Holocaust. We pledge to commemorate. We pledge to educate. We pledge to forever remember. We pledge to you, our mothers and fathers, who suffered in ways which words cannot describe, that our commitment is an everlasting commitment for this generation and for every generation to come. We dedicate this pledge to our beloved grandmothers and grandfathers, who never lived to see us. We dedicate this pledge to our aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers and sisters, who are forever missing from our lives. We dedicate this pledge to all the six million Jewish men, women, and children who were so brutally murdered, but who will always be in our thoughts and in our hearts.

the pledge of continuationAccepted by Stephan Kallus

Stephan Kallus is the grandchild of Lou Kallus. Lou was born in Munkacz, Czechoslovakia, the youngest of 4 children. Not long after, Nazi’s took over his town and his family was sent to Auschwitz. He and his brother were

split up from his mother and two sisters and forced to do slave labor and go on many death marches. On one of the death marches, his brother Menachem (for whom Stephan is named) did not have the energy to complete the march and was picked by in a truck and shot dead. After the war, Lou was sent to an OSE orphanage in France where by

chance he ran into a distant cousin who told him his mother and sisters had survived (he had presumed them dead) and were in Israel, so his grandfather reunited with them there. He moved to New York where he met Stephan’s

grandmother. Lou is survived by three sons and six grandchildren, after passing away seven years ago.

All grandchildren of survivors are invited to rise and join in the reading of the pledge

We, who are your grandchildren will carry the survivors’ legacy to prove to ourselves and to others that we can carry our victory, as well as to memorialize those loved ones who perished in the Holocaust. We pledge to:Always remember who we are, where we came from, and also the traumas our grandparents endured and survived; Educate people of other ethnic, religious, and cultural groups about our grandparents’ experiences; Commit to use lessons of the Holocaust to support justice, tolerance, peace, kindness and compassion; Accept survivors’ memories and to pass them on to future generations.



songEl Maleh Rachamim

אל מלא רחמיםHolocaust Memorial Prayer (Yad Va’Shem version)

El maleh rachamim shochen bameromim, hamtzey menuchah nechonah al kanfey hashechinah, bema’alot kedoshim utehorim kezohar harakiya mazhirim et kol haneshmot shel sheshet milyoneh hayehudim, chalileh ha’Shoah ba’Eropa, shenehergu, shenish’chetu, shenisrefu, veshanisfu al kidush haShem, b’yadey hameratzchim haGermanim ve’ozrehem misha’ar ha’amim. Lachen Ba’al harachamim yastiram b’seter k’nafav le’olamim, v’yitzror bitzror hachayim et nishmotehem. Adonai hu nachalatam, b’Gan Eden t’hey menuchatam, veya’amdu legoralam liketz hayamim, v’nomar amen.

God full of mercy, who dwells upon high, grant proper rest upon the wings of the Divine Presence, in the great heights of the holy and pure who, like the brilliance of the heavens, shine to all the souls of the six million Jews slain in the European Holocaust who were killed, and slaughtered, and burned, and destroyed in sanctification of God’s name, at the hands of the German Nazi murderers and their assistants from other nations. Therefore may the Master of mercy shelter them in the shelter of His wings for eternity, and bind their souls with the bond of life. The Lord is their inheritance; may the Garden of Eden be their resting place and may they stand for their destiny in the end of days. And let us say: Amen

ים וטהורים מעלות קדוש כינה, ב נפי הש רומים, המצא מנוחה נכונה על כ מ אל מלא רחמים שוכן בה, אירופ ת מיליוני היהודים, חללי השואה ב ש ל ש מות ש כזוהר הרקיע מזהירים את כל הנש

אר ידי המרצחים הגרמנים ועוזריהם מש ם, ב נספו על קדוש הש רפו וש נש חטו, ש נש נהרגו, ש שמותיהם. ה’ צרור החיים את נש נפיו לעולמים, ויצרור ב סתר כ ירם ב על הרחמים יסת ים. לכן ב העמ

הא מנוחתם, ויעמדו לגורלם לקץ הימין, ונאמר אמן גן עדן ת .הוא נחלתם, ב


*The Holocaust Kaddish recited tonight serves as the only memorial for many whose families perished on dates and in locations unknown. We intersperse many of the locations of death in our prayer.

Ve-yit-naseh, ve-yit-hadar ויתנשא ויתהדרMajdanek, Mauthausen, Minsk, Natzweiler Neuegamme

Ve-yit-aleh, ve-yit-halal ויתעלה ויתהללOhrdruf, Plashov, Papenburg, Ponary

Shmei d’kudesha, b’rich Hu, שמה דקודשא בריך הואPrague, Radom, Ravensbruck, Rehmsdorf, Riga

Le-eyla לעלאSachensburg, Sachsenhausen, San Sabba, Shauliai

Min kol birchata v’shirata מן כל ברכתא ושירתאSkarzysko, Kameinna, Sobibor, Stutthof

Tus-bechata ve-neche-mata תשבחתא ונחמתאThereisenstadt, Transnistria, Treblinka, Vilna

Da-amiran b’alma דאמירן בעלמאViavara, Warsaw, Zemun, Zhitomirand the scores of other camps.

V’imru Amen. .ואמרו אמן

Yehei Shlama raba min shmaya יהא שלמא רבא מן שמיא

Ve-chayim aleinu וחיים עלינו

V’al kol Yisrael ועל כל ישראל

V’imru Amen. .ואמרו אמן

Oseh shalom bim-romav עשה שלום במרומיו

Hu ya-aseh shalom הוא יעשה שלום

Aleinu ve-al kol Yisrael ,עלינו ועל כל ישראל

V’imru Amen. ואמרו אמן

Yit-gadal יתגדלAuschwitz-Birkenau-Bun, Balanowka, Belson

Ve-yit-kadash ויתקדשBelzec, Bialystok, Babi Yar

Shmei raba שמה רבהBochini, Bogdaovka, Buchenwald

B’alma divra chir-utei בעלמא די ברא כרעותהChelmno, Cracow, Dachau

V’yamlich mal-chutei וימליך מלכותהDakovo, Danica, Dora

Be-chayei-chon, uv’yomei-chon בחייכון וביומכוןDumanovka, Ebensee, Edineti, Flossenburg

U’vchayei d’chol beit Yisrael ובחיי דכל בית ישראלGross Rosen, Gunskirchen, Gurs

Ba-agala u’vizman kariv בעגלא ובזמן קריבHerzogenbusc, Iasi, Jadovno, Kaiserwald

V’imru Amen.. ואמרו אמן

Ye-hei shmei raba m’vorach יהא שמה רבא מבורך

L’olam ul’ol-mei alma-ya .לעולם ולעלמי עלמיא

Yitbarach ve-yishtabach יתברך וישתבחKamenets-Podolsk, Kishniev, Kovno, Klooga

Ve-yitpa’ar ve-yitromam ויתפאר ויתרומםLodz, Lubin, Lublin, Lvov, Lyons

All Rabbis present are invited to the bima to lead the congregation in reciting the Kaddish

The Holocaust Kaddish*


Hymn of the Partisans (Zog Nit Keyn Mol)

Lyrics by Hirsch Glik of the Vilna Ghetto

Please Rise. Bolded verses below to be sung aloud.

Zog nit keyn mol az du geyst dem lesten veg,Khtosh himlen blayene Farshteln bloye teg.Kumen vet nokh undzer oygebenkte sho-es vet a poyk ton undzer trot-mir zaynen do!

Es vet di morgunzun bagildn undz dem haynt,Un der nekhtn vet farshvindn mint faynd, Nor oyb fazamen vet di zun im dem kayor-Vi a parol zol geyn dos lid fun dor tsu dor. Dos lid geshribn iz mit blut un nit mit blay,S’iz nit keyn lidl fun a foygl af der fray.Dos hot a fold tsvishn falndike ventDos lid gezungen mit naganes in di hent! Zog nit keyn mol az du geyst dem lesten veg,Khtosh himlen blayene Farshteln bloye teg.Kumen vet nokh undzer oygebenkte sho-es vet a poyk ton undzer trot-mir zaynen do!

never say that you are going your last way,though lead-filled skies above blot out the blue of day.The hour for which we long will certainly appear.The earth shall thunder beneath our tread that we are here! The early morning sun will brighten our day,and yesterday with our foe will fade away.But if the sun delays and in the east remainsthis song as password generations must maintain. This song was written with our blood and not with lead.It’s not a little tune that birds sing overhead;this song a people sang amid collapsing walls,with grenades in hands they heeded to the call! never say that you are going your last way,though lead-filled skies above blot out the blue of day.The hour for which we long will certainly appear.The earth shall thunder beneath our tread that we are here!

זאג נישט קיינמאל אז דו גייסט דעם לעצטן וועג,כאטש הימלען בלייענע פארשטעלן בלויע טעג;

קומען וועט נאך אונדזער אויסגעבענקטע שעה – ס’וועט א פויק טאן אונדזער טראט – מיר זיינען דא!

ס’וועט די מארגן-זון באגילדן אונדז דעם היינט,און דער נעכטן וועט פארשווינדן מיטן פיינט,

נאר אויב פארזאמען וועט די זון אין דעם קאיאר –ווי א פאראל זאל גיין דאס ליד פון דור צו דור.

דאס ליד געשריבן איז מיט בלוט און ניט מיט בליי,ס’איז ניט קיין לידל פון א פויגל אויף דער פריי,

דאס האט א פאלק צווישן פאלנדיקע ווענטדאס ליד געזונגען מיט נאגאנעס אין די הענט.

זאג ניט קיינמאל אז דו גייסט דעם לעצטן וועג,כאטש הימלען בלייענע פארשטעלן בלויע טעג.

קומען וועט נאך אונדזער אויסגעבענקטע שעה – ס’וועט א פויק טאן אונדזער טראט – מיר זיינען דא!

זאג טשינ אמנייקל!


Hatikvah (The Hope) התקווה

Lyrics by Naphtali Herz Imber

Kol ‘od balevav P’nimah Nefesh Yehudi homiyahUlfa’atey mizrakh kadimah‘Ayin le’tzion tzofiyah

‘Od lo avdah tikvatenuHatikvah bat shnot alpayim:Lihyot ‘am khofshi be’artzenu Eretz Tziyon vey’rushalayim.

כל עוד בלבב פנימהנפש יהודי הומיה,

ולפאתי מזרח קדימה עין לציון צופיה

עוד לא אבדה תקותנו, התקווה בת שנות אלפים, להיות עם חופשי בארצנו

ארץ ציון וירושלים.

The Hope

As long as within the Jewish heartA Jewish soul still yearns

And eastwardThe eyes gaze, toward Zion

Our hope is not yet lost,The hope of two thousand years

To be a free people in our own landThe land of Zion and Jerusalem.

Remember a Child ProgramThe mission of Remember a Child is to honor and perpetuate the memory of each child who perished during the Holocaust through the recitation of the Kaddish prayer and via acts of kindness performed in the memory of each child.

More than 1.5 million children, under the age of 18, were murdered during the Nazi extermination rampage through Europe. So complete was the devastation that most left behind no family members able to recite the Jewish memorial Kaddish prayer in their behalf, as called for in Jewish tradition. Remember a Child is a program that will allow dedicated Jews to fulfill this mitzvah by committing, to the best of their ability, to recite the Kaddish and light a Yahrzeit candle in memory of one particular murdered child during the Yom Ha’Shaoh observance each year. This year, the following members of the Congregation Har Shalom community participated in the Remember a Child program and honored the memory of a child during tonight’s Unto Every Person There Is a Name ceremony:

Ethan Adler remembers lezer Weissman born in Farnad, CzechoslovakiaJacob Balfour remembers Maurice Morganstern born in PolandJulie Cooper remembers agnes Ringwald born in HungaryHannah Etman remembers Great aunts doba and Hannah etmam and their baby sister born in Parczew, PolandGarret Goltz remembers lazar Mezericher born in Komsomol, RussiaJordan Lewis remembers Mordekkhai Sasrin born in Bialystok, PolandRyan Lewis remembers Ruben Selinger born in Chrzanow, PolandFara Moskowitz remembers alice Gruenwald born in Wien, AustriaMichael Sherr remembers dieter Hirsch born in Berlin, GermanyJacob Smith remembers Yakov Getht born in Odessa, UkraineMax Smith remembers Max Gliklich born in Morhange, FranceJaclyn Zidar remembers edit Mihai born in Kluz, Romania


acknowledgements, thanks, & sponsors

YoM HA’SHoAH PLANNING CoMMITTEE Susan Banes Harris, Marilyn Bargteil, anat Bar-Cohen, Stephanie Bernstein, edith Cord,

anne Marie deutsch, anita epstein, Jacques Fein, Genie Glucksman, nesse Godin, Martin Goldman, Rena Goldman, Claude Kacser, Jeremy Kay, louise lawrence-Israels, Manny Mandel, Ronald Paul,

Sam Ponczak, Wendy Reiter, Mira Silberg, Michael Siegel, Herman Taube, alfred Traum

nesse Godin & louise lawrence-Israels, Co-Presidents, Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Friends of Greater Washingtonedith Cord and Sam Ponczak, Coordinators, Holocaust Survivors – The Last Generation

Clause Kacser, Coordinator, One Thousand Children, Greater Washington & Baltimore Areaalfred Traum, Chairman, Washington DC Kindertransport Association (KTA)

anat Bar-Cohen, Mira Silberg, Co-Presidents, The Generations After

Genie Glucksman, Vice President, The Generations After

CoNGREGATIoN HAR SHALoMRabbi adam Raskin, Hazan Henrique Ozur Bass, President Jeff ashin,

executive director Gary Simms, director of Congregational learning Rabbi deborah Bodin Cohen

CoMMuNITY ARTIFACT AND ART ExHIbITThank you to Sonia Beekman, Volunteer Coordinator and Congregation Har Shalom Liaison for putting together

and making this exhibit available to us today. Thank you to Rachel erez Kdosha for her artwork display.

THE uNITED STATES HoLoCAuST MEMoRIAL MuSEuM Thank you to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Judith Cohen, Director Photographic

Reference Collection for providing the photographs used in the Memorial to Destroyed Communities Display.

b’NAI b’RITH CHESAPEAKE bAY REGIoN “uNTo EVERY PERSoN THERE IS A NAME”Jeremy Kay and Jack Ventura, Co-Chairs, Marilyn Bargteil, Region Consultant

The B’nai B’rith Chesapeake Bay Region, in conjunction with the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel, sponsors the “Unto Every Person There is a Name” Program. The public name-reading commemorates the children and adults who perished during the Holocaust, restoring some dignity to those who were stripped

of their identities and robbed of their lives. We remember the millions of individuals who were lost to the Jewish people each year on this date by reading as many names as possible.

KoL SASSoNThe University of Maryland’s Premier Jewish a Cappella Group

JSSA The Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA) is the greater DC’s resource for providing our community’s Holocaust

survivors with critical safety net services. We thank them for supporting this commemoration each year. For more information please call 301-838-4200, email: [email protected] or visit www.jssa.org.


Sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council

of Greater Washington The JCRC thanks the following supporting agencies & synagogues: B’nai B’rith Chesapeake Bay Region,

Congregation Har Shalom, Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Friends of Greater Washington, Kindertransport, One

Thousand Children, Survivors of the Holocaust - the Last Generation, The Generation After, Washington Board of Rabbis, JSSA - The Jewish Social Service Agency, B’nai Tzedek Congregation,

Kol Shalom, B’nai Israel Congregation, Ohr Kodesh Congregation, Kehilat Shalom, Silver Spring Jewish Center

THE JEWISH CoMMuNITY RELATIoNS CouNCIL oF GREATER WASHINGToNJoe Sandler, President; Ronald Halber, Executive Director

Ronald Paul, Md, Chair, Holocaust Commissionarielle Poleg, Director of Israel Action Center & International Affairs

alexis Schwartz, Program Associate, Israel Action Center Zachary Fisher, Israel & International Affairs Intern

Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Washington6101 Montrose Road, Suite 205, Rockville, MD 20852 | 301 770-0881

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