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Yom HaShoah 2000
Holocaust Center of the North Shore Holocaust Center of the North Shore
Holocaust Center of the North Shore
Holocaust Center of the North Shore
Title
Yom HaShoah 2000
Date
2000-04-30
Subject
Yom HaShoah
Material type
Collections
Abstract
The 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 shows the Survivors Candlelighting Ceremony, a reading of the "Yom HaShoah Poem" by Sonia Weitz, Welcome by Dr. Robert McAndrews (Chaitman, Holocaust Center), Musical Selections by the Gordon College Women's Choir, Greetings by Peter Torigian (Mayor, Peabody), Greetings by Shephard Remis (President, Jewish Federation of the North Shore), Holocaust Center Service Award Presented to Edward P. Morrison (Educator) by Harriet Tarnor Wacks (Director, Holocaust Center), Interfaith Service (Father Dennis Bums, Star of the Sea Church, Marblehead; Reverend Page Blair, St.John's Episcopal Church, Beverly; Rabbi David Klatzker, Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody; and Cantor Sam Pessaroff, Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody), Keynote Presentation by James Carroll ("Memory and Hope
for the New Century"), and the singing of Hatikvah and the Star Spangled Banner.
Duration
01:46:19