The Holocaust Museum of Los Angeles will host a livestream Yom HaShoah commemoration ceremony specifically honoring the Sephardic communities in Southern Europe and North Africa that were victims of Nazi brutality. The virtual ceremony, which takes place Sunday, April 11 will feature a keynote address by Dr. Aomoar Baum, associate professor and vice chair of Undergraduate Studies, UCLA Department of Anthropology, a speech from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, performances by singer-songwriters Shira Bouskila and Montana Tucker, and appearances from survivors.
While the museum itself remains closed due to pandemic restrictions, its Yom HaShoah event is open to anyone who wishes to join and honor the Sephardic community.
Never forget. Holocaust Survivor will share his story in virtual remembrance ceremony Carli Teproff, The Miami Herald
Apr. 7 As a professional photographer, Laszlo Selly spent his life telling stories through his camera lens.
But it s his own narrative and the stories of other Holocaust survivors that he feels obligated to tell. It is important because there are less and less Holocaust survivors and there are more and more people denying that it happened, said the 83-year-old, who now lives in Aventura.
Selly, who was born in Hungary and was liberated in 1945, will share his survival story Thursday as part of the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach s virtual Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Rememberence Day) program.
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A potato sack helped her survive the Holocaust. She ll tell her story during virtual event. Carli Teproff, The Miami Herald
Jan. 23 Suly Chenkin was only 3 when her mother and father gave her a sleeping potion, put her in a potato sack and threw her over the barbed wire.
Her parents, she later learned, thought giving the little girl away was her only chance of survival.
This was on May 11, 1944, about three years after the Nazis invaded Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania.
Chenkin, who survived the Holocaust and was eventually reunited with her parents, will share her tale of survival as part of Holocaust and Genocide Awareness week at Florida International University. Hillel at FIU, the school s Holocaust & Genocide Studies Program, the Jewish Museum of Florida, Casa Cuba, along with several other FIU departments and organizations and other community partners have teamed up to offer a week-long schedule of virtual events including a discussion with Chenkin on Wednesday,