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  • Yom HaShoah 1988
    Holocaust Center of the North Shore (1988-04-10)
    The Holocaust Center of the North Shore (Jewish Federation) commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a program held at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Massachusetts. The program includes introduction by Rabbi Samuel Kenner; poetry by Sonia Weitz; interfaith commemoration with Father Frank Tosti, Rabbi Abraham Morhaim, Reverend Wayne Underhill, and Cantor Samuel Levitsky; keynote speech by Elizabeth Holtzman (introduced by Janet Miller); presentation by Harriet Wacks of the center's Service Award to Zelda Kaplan; anthem singing; and closing remarks by Rabbi Kenner along with remarks by Sonia Weitz.

  • Yom HaShoah 1987
    Holocaust Center of the North Shore (1987-04-05)
    The Holocaust Center of the North Shore (Jewish Federation) commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a program held at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Massachusetts. The program includes music by Rosalie Gerut, introduction by Neil Cooper (president of the Jewish Federation); remarks by Rabbi Samuel Kenner; poetry by Sonia Weitz; interfaith service with Cantor Sam Pesarov, Father John Kiley of Saint John the Evangelist Church (Beverly), Reverend James T Hagley of the First Baptist Church (Beverly), Rabbi Edgar Weinsberg (Bethel and Swampscott); keynote speech by Kitty Dukakis (with introduction by Sonia Weitz); remarks by Peabody Mayor Peter Torigian; presentation by Harriet Wacks of the center's Service Award to Rev. Aram Marashlian of the First Baptist Church (Salem), who gives a speech; closing remarks by Rabbi Kenner; and musical conclusion led by Cantor Pesarov.

  • Auschwitz: Never Again (Trip to Poland)
    Boston Catholic Television Center (Boston Catholic Television Center, 1986-11-11)
    In August 1986, an interfaith Catholic-Jewish delegation was led by Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law on a tour of Poland (styled a pilgrimage) in remembrance of the Holocaust. In this video, participants provide remarks remembering the victims of the Holocaust, interspersed with historical imagery and narration, and are featured at a Auschwitz-Birkenau ceremony. Sonia Weitz (Holocaust Center of the North Shore) is shown providing remarks at the Auschwitz ceremony and at Krakow (red dress and glasses). Other remarks are shown given by Leonard Zakim (Anti-Defamation League) and Cardinal Law. This television program was shown as a mass replacement, November 11, 1986, on Boston Catholic TV. Credits: Director, Boston Catholic TV, Rev. Francis McFarland; Executive Producer, John Lawless; Field Producer/Writer, Marcie Diehl; Photographer/Editor, Steven Joyal; Audio, James Fadden; Engineer, Gregory Morton; Special Thanks To, WNEZ-TV, Boston, Bran Zelasko.

  • Clergy Conference, First Baptist Church, Salem
    Unidentified (1986-06-03)
    The First Baptist Church, Salem, Massachusetts (Rev.. Aram Marashlian) hosts an interfaith clergy conference on Holocaust and genocide prevention education. The video includes remarks by Rev. Aram Marashlian (First Baptist Church, Salem, with introduction) followed by introductions from various participants and speeches by Dr. Marvin Wilson (Professor of Biblical Studies, Gordon College), Father Robert Bullock (Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Sharon, Mass.), and Harriet Wacks (Holocaust Center of the North Shore).

  • Yom HaShoah 1986
    Holocaust Center of the North Shore (1986-05-08)
    The Holocaust Center of the North Shore (Jewish Federation) commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a program held at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Massachusetts. The video begins with an exhibition of wooden screens by Nathan Kaplan showing wooden synagogues destroyed by the Nazis; proceeds into the program's musical frontispiece, the interfaith commemoration, and keynote speech by Beate Klarsfeld (Nazi hunter); and finishes with a press conference with Beate Klarsfeld. The program, in order of appearance, includes remarks by Israella Abrams (Chairperson, Holocaust Center), Sonia Weitz, Father Ronald A. Tosti, Rev. Larry Edmonds, Rabbi Samuel Kenner, Mayor Peter Torigian (of Peabody), Mike Greenstein (speaking on behalf of Rep. Nicholas Mavroules), Harriet Wacks, Maxine Mazo (substituting for Mark Arnold), David Kaplan (Swampscott High School junior, reading poem), David Clopper (Hillel Academy eighth grade student, reading poem), Judy Rosenberg, Beate Klarseld (keynote speaker), and Israella Abrams again to close the ceremony.

  • Yom HaShoah 1985, "The Holocaust: Forty Years Later... What Have We Learned?"
    Holocaust Center of the North Shore (1985-04-18)
    The Holocaust Center of the North Shore (Jewish Federation) commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Holocaust with a program held at Salem High School, Salem, Massachusetts. The program begins and ends with music from the group of Rosalie Gerut, and it includes remarks by Israella Abrams, Audrey Weinstein, Sonia Weitz, Rabbi Edgar Weinsberg, Rev. Aram Marashlian, Bernard Law (Archbishop of Boston), Rev. Frank Eiklor, George Kaiser, and Barbara Glaser.

  • Peabody, Mass., Police Conference, Holocaust Center and ADL
    Holocaust Center of the North Shore; Anti-Defamation League (1986-03-20)
    Holocaust Center of the North Shore and the Anti-Defamation League present a conference for the Peabody, Massachusetts, police department to prepare officers to deal with hate crime incidents. Harriet Wacks provides remarks and describes the Holocaust Center, and Sonia Weitz provides Holocaust survivor testimony.

  • Covenant Signing, North Shore Christian Task Force Against Anti-Semitism
    Unidentified (1986-06-01)
    Rev. Aram T. Marashlian of the First Baptist Church of Salem, Massachusetts, presents a covenant signing for the North Shore Christian Task Force Against Anti-Semitism and reads a statement regarding the group. The statement includes an acknowledgment of Harriet Wacks and Sonia Weitz of the Holocaust Center. At 00:06:48, the video transitions into a report on the founding of the task force. For more information on the task force, see Diane Alters (Globe Staff), "North Shore pastors unite to combat anti-Semitism", Boston Globe, November 14, 1985: 52 (available through ProQuest Historical Newspapers).

  • Press Conference, Inauguration of Holocaust Center at McCarthy School
    Holocaust Center of the North Shore (1985-12-03)
    The Holocaust Center of the North Shore presents a press conference for the inauguration of its headquarters in the McCarthy School, Peabody, Massachusetts. Introduction by Israella Abrams, chairperson of the Holocaust Center, with remarks (in order of appearance) by Rev. Larry Edmunds, Harriet Wacks, Sonia Weitz, Rev. Wayne Underhill, Father Thomas MacLeod, Rabbi Edgar Weinsberg, and Mayor Peter Torigian of Peabody. Mrs. Abrams returns to give the closing remarks and adjourns to an open house.

  • Christa Marden, Higgins Middle School
    Wacks, Harriet; Marden, Christa (1988-03-17)
    Christa Marden, German witness to the Holocaust, presents to students at the Higgins Middle School, Peabody, Massachusetts, about her experience growing up in Nazi Germany. Introduction by Harriet Tarnor Wacks, Holocaust Center of the North Shore. Mrs. Marden begins at 26 minutes.