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Yom HaShoah 1986
Holocaust Center of the North Shore Holocaust Center of the North Shore
Holocaust Center of the North Shore
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The Holocaust Center of the North Shore (Jewish Federation) commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a program held at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Massachusetts. The video begins with an exhibition of wooden screens by Nathan Kaplan showing wooden synagogues destroyed by the Nazis; proceeds into the program's musical frontispiece, the interfaith commemoration, and keynote speech by Beate Klarsfeld (Nazi hunter); and finishes with a press conference with Beate Klarsfeld. The program, in order of appearance, includes remarks by Israella Abrams (Chairperson, Holocaust Center), Sonia Weitz, Father Ronald A. Tosti, Rev. Larry Edmonds, Rabbi Samuel Kenner, Mayor Peter Torigian (of Peabody), Mike Greenstein (speaking on behalf of Rep. Nicholas Mavroules), Harriet Wacks, Maxine Mazo (substituting for Mark Arnold), David Kaplan (Swampscott High School junior, reading poem), David Clopper (Hillel Academy eighth grade student, reading poem), Judy Rosenberg, Beate Klarseld (keynote speaker), and Israella Abrams again to close the ceremony.
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Yom HaShoah 1986
Date
1986-05-08
Subject
Yom HaShoah
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Abstract
The Holocaust Center of the North Shore (Jewish Federation) commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a program held at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Massachusetts. The video begins with an exhibition of wooden screens by Nathan Kaplan showing wooden synagogues destroyed by the Nazis; proceeds into the program's musical frontispiece, the interfaith commemoration, and keynote speech by Beate Klarsfeld (Nazi hunter); and finishes with a press conference with Beate Klarsfeld. The program, in order of appearance, includes remarks by Israella Abrams (Chairperson, Holocaust Center), Sonia Weitz, Father Ronald A. Tosti, Rev. Larry Edmonds, Rabbi Samuel Kenner, Mayor Peter Torigian (of Peabody), Mike Greenstein (speaking on behalf of Rep. Nicholas Mavroules), Harriet Wacks, Maxine Mazo (substituting for Mark Arnold), David Kaplan (Swampscott High School junior, reading poem), David Clopper (Hillel Academy eighth grade student, reading poem), Judy Rosenberg, Beate Klarseld (keynote speaker), and Israella Abrams again to close the ceremony.