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Holocaust Days of Remembrance, April 11–18

Please use this forum to post events related to the observance of Holocaust Days of Remembrance in your community. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum provides resources and suggestions for commemorating Yom Hashoah.

Dr. Miriam Brysk, Holocaust surivovr and artist, is the keynote speaker on Sunday, April 11, 2:30 p.m., at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center, 6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53217. Dr. Brysk's presentation will be preceded by an Intergenerational Program titled "Hiding from Hitler: A Child’s World in the Woods" that will take place from 1-1:45 p.m.

The Shoah Remembrance Committee of Muskegon (SRCM) is pleased to announce that Miriam Brysk will also be a guest at this year's Shoah Commemoration Service on April 25 at 3:30 pm. The event takes place at the Samuel Lutheran Church, on the corner of 8th Street and Muskegon Ave in Muskegon, Michigan.

Dr. Henry Greenspan will perform his one-person play REMNANTS in Lansing, Michigan on Friday, April 16 and on Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. in the LCP UNDERGROUND Theater at 2300 East Michigan Avenue, Lansing, MI 48912. All seats are $15.00. Reservations can be made by calling 517-484-9115.

REMNANTS is based on twenty years of the renowned playwright's conversations with Holocaust survivors. Forty minutes in length, the piece is stark and minimalist, each segment recreating moments in which survivors reflect not only on the destruction but also on their lives in the aftermath. Performances of the play are followed by a discussion between playwright and audience.

Dr. Greenspan (who teaches at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and who has been writing about the Holocaust for alsmost three decades) will also participate in the Muskegon, Michigan Yom Hashoah Commemoration Service.

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Permalink Reply by GLincoln on April 7, 2010 at 1:02pm

The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center of St. Louis will hold a Yom HaShoah observance at 4:00 PM on Sunday, April 11 at the Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel, 1107 East Linden Avenue, Richmond Heights.

Pier Marton, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Washington University, will open the program on Sunday. He will recount the inspiring story of his father Ervin Marton who figured prominently during the French Resistance. Pier completed the panel below as a tribute to his father.