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First Annual Social Justice and Human Rights Award Dinner (Honoring Sonia Weitz)The video shows the First Annual Social Justice and Human Rights Award Dinner (Honoring Sonia Weitz: Holocaust survivor, and Co-Founder and Education Director of the Holocaust Center) held at the Hyatt Harborside, Boston. It includes a survey of the cocktail reception preceding the dinner (showing check-in, various people in attendance, refreshments, piano player, the view from the hotel, etc.), survey of the dining room (with attendees entering for dinner), and the program: Welcome by Marcia Glassman-Jaffe (Co-Chair of the Event), Greetings by Dr. Robert McAndrews (President of the Holocaust Center), Short Video on Sonia Weitz, Remarks by Elaine Hazlett (Co-Chair of the Event), Keynote Presentation by R. D. Sahl (news anchor), Interfaith Service by Rabbi David Klatzker and Dr. Padraic O'Hare, Remarks by Dr. Marvin Wilson (Board Member, Holocaust Center), Remarks by Deborah M. Ponn (President, Jewish Federation of the North Shore), Reamrks by Marcia Glassman-Jaffe in lieu of Congressman John Tierney, Remarks by Sonia Weitz's children (Don Weitz, Andi Vilnai, and Sandy Weitz), Remarks by Michael Bonfanti (Mayor of Peabody), Remarks and Award Presentation by Harriet Tarnor Wacks (Co-Founder and Director of the Holocaust Center), Remarks by Sonia Weitz, and Closing Remarks by Anna Bertini (Office Manager, Holocaust Center). Produced by R. Vargas.
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Yom HaShoah 2004The Holocaust Center of the North Shore commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a program held at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Massachusetts. The video includes the Survivors' Candlelighting Ceremony, Welcome by Dr. Robert McAndrews, Sounding of the Shofar, Musical Selections by Faith Leuthe and the Gordon College Women's Choir, Greetings by Mayor Michael Bonfanti, Peabody, Greetings by Merritt Mulman (Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore) in lieu of Deborah M. Ponn (President), Holocaust Center Service Award Presented to Sandy Weitz by Harriet Tarnor Wacks, Keynote Presentation by Dr. Christopher Mauriello ("From Memory to History": Myths of the Holocaust in American Public Life), Interfaith Service (Reverend Louise Mann, Swampscott; Reverend Louise Mann, Swampscott; Rabbi Ilana Rosansky, Salem; Cantor Sam Pessaroff, Peabody), Sonia Schreiber Weitz ("What Else Was Lost"), Generations' Ceremony with the Shir Shalom Childrens Choir, and Singing of Hatikvah and the Star Spangled Banner.
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Dershowitz on Israel and the HolocaustAlan Dershowitz talks on Israel and the Holocaust during a presentation at Congregation Mishkan Tefila in Chestnut Hill, Boston, sponsored by Holocaust Center, Boston North, as the keynote of a Kristallnacht anniversary ceremony. The presentation is preceded by candle lighting by Sonia Weitz, welcome by Herb Belkin (director of remembrance at the Holocaust Center), greetings by Meir Shlomo (Israeli Consul to New England), greetings by the congregation's Rabbi Michael Menitoff, greetings by Dr. Robert McAndrews (Chair, Holocaust Center), poetry reading by Sonia Weitz, and introduction by Alan Ronkin (Jewish Community Relations council); the presentation is followed by a Q&A session with Dershowitz and closing remarks by Herb Belkin. Video produced by the Swampscott High School Cable Club.
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Human Rights Awareness Conference 2002The Holocaust Center of the North Shore presents its annual educational conference for high school students at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, with keynote presentations by Eric Kahn (Holocaust survivor), Francis Bok (survivor of child slavery in Sudan), and Samkhann Khoeun (Cambodian genocide survivor).
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Yom HaShoah 2002The Holocaust Center of the North Shore commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a program held at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Massachusetts. The video includes coverage of the student art on display at the event, the Survivors' Candlelighting Ceremony, Yom HaShoah Poem by Andi Vilnai and Sandy Weitz (in lieu of their mother, Holocaust survivor Sonia Weitz, who authored it), Sounding of the Shofar by Herb Belkin, Welcome by Dr. Robert McAndrews (Chair, Holocaust Center), Musical Selections by the Gordon College Women's Choir, Greetings by Mayor Michael Bonfanti (Peabody), Greetings by Debra Finkel (President, Women's Division of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore), Holocaust Service Award Presented to Herb Belkin by Harriet Tarnor Wacks (Director, Holocaust Center), Interfaith Service (Father John MacInnis, St. John the Baptist Church, Peabody; Reverend Joel Anderle, Community Covenant Church, Peabody; Rabbi Robert Goldstein; Temple Emanu-El, Andover; Cantor Sam Pessaroff, Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody), Keynote Presentation by Dr. Padraic O'Hare ("The Losses are Greater than the Numbers"), Singing of Hatikvah and the Star Spangled Banner.
