Holocaust Survivors To Be Honored At Beachwood Event

BEACHWOOD, OH - At the end of April, the Jewish Federation of Cleveland the Kol Israel Foundation’s Yom Hashoah V’Hagvurah will honor the Cleveland area's estimated 1,000 Holocaust survivors. The two organizations are hosting an event April 23 that is free and open to the public that will honor the survivors and those who died during the Holocaust.

The event will be held at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, 23737 Fairmount Blvd., will feature rabbis and survivors from six area synagogues. The group will carry Torah scrolls from Europe, which also survived the Holocaust. Survivors will be joined by their families in a candle lighting ceremony meant to honor the memory of the six million Jews who perished during the Holocaust.

Children will also participate in the event to signify the continuation of Jewish life after the Holocaust.

During the event, art and poems will be displayed. The artwork comes from local schools that entered the Yom Hashoah V'Hagvurah Creative Arts Contest. Students were asked to incorporate the theme “Stand Up, Speak Out: Stopping Persecution Then and Now.”

The 2017 Creative Arts Contest winners are:

Visual Arts:
1st Place: Mollie Goldman (Beachwood High School)
1st Place: Abigail Wilkov (The Temple-Tifereth Israel)
2nd Place: Alexander Bell (James A. Garfield High School)

Writing:
1st Place: Hannah Plotkin (Mandel Jewish Day School)
1st Place: Jayden Sussman (Gross Schechter Day School)
2nd Place: Jamie Marderstein (Gross Schechter Day School)
3rd Place: Shira Rosenberg (Mandel Jewish Day School)

For more information on the program, click here.

Photo from Shutterstock