The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg hosted an uninterrupted reading of close to 10,000 names of Holocaust victims from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah.
Kahan stood confidently on the Tropicana Field pitcher’s mound with her daughter and son by her side. It didn’t matter that the throw only made it halfway.
Helen Kahan, a 100-year-old Holocaust survivor from Florida, made her MLB debut at the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays baseball game as she threw the first pitch.