YOM HASHOAH COMMEMORATION
PROGRAM:
"LIBERATION 1945"
Sunday, April 14, 2002, Sponsored by: Arden Heights Boulevard Jewish Center,
Congregation Ahavath Israel, Congregation Aviv Hadash, Congregation B'nai Israel,
Jewish Community of Staten Island, Congregation Ohel Abraham, Temple Emanuel,
Temple Israel Reform Congregation
- Broadcast from Buchenwald by Edward R. Murrow
- Welcoming Remarks - Rabbi Newberger
- Presentation of the Colors - Joint Color Guard MEPS. Ft. Hamilton, Brooklyn. NY
- National Anthem - Jill Glassman
- Candle Lighting Blessing - Sandra Conrad
- Candle Lighting - Gary Gordon. Larry Forin, Arthur Huss, and World War II Veterans and the
Candlelight Procession - Youth Groups, Hebrew and Religious School Students, Project Jacob
- Liberation at Bergen Belson - Maxine Spierer
- "Where Shall I Go?" - Jill Glassman
- Reading of the Liberating Units of the US. Army Divisions - Manny Saks
- Liberation of Dachau, Memoir of Rabbi Klausner, Chaplain - Rabbi Stern
- Keynote Speaker - Hyman Horowitz
- "Memories" - Rachel Weishoff
- Holocaust Star - George Laufer, Eva Pollack
- "Survivor" a poem by Tadeusz Rozewiez translated by Adam Czerniawski - Rabbi Katz
- Partisans Hymn - Cantor Suzanne Bernstein, Temple Israel Senior Choir and members of the 7th and 8th grade
Religious school class
- Liberation of Nordhausen, Memoir by Joseph Luba, Liberator - Rabbi Eichenholtz
- Liberation of Buchenwald, Memoir by Felix Sparks, VS. Army Ret - Lew Stolzenberg
- "Rachel Weeps for Her Children" Rabbi Linkovsky
- First Encounters with Refugees - Rabbi Ackerman
- Holocaust Torah Procession - Manny Saks, George Laufer, Sandra Conrad
- Ohel Abraham Holocaust Torah - George Laufer, Rabbi Eichenholtz.
- Cong. B'Nai Jeshunm Holocaust Torah - Iris & Norman Sweig
- Valley of Dry Bones" - Naomi Newberger
- 23rd Psalm - Rabbi Unger
- El Moleh Rachamim - Cantor Edry
- Holocaust Kaddish - Rabbi Sussman. Rabbi Unger
- "Lest We Forget" - Rabbi Sussman
- Soldiers Prayer - Lynn Laufer
- Survivors Prayer - Eva Pollack
- Hatikvah - Ziggy Robinson
- G-d Bless America - Jill Glassman