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Yom Ha'Shoah

Yom Ha'Shoah

Today, on Yom Ha'Shoah, we remember the victims of the greatest crime of man against man – the young, the old, the innocent, the million and a half children, starved, shot, given lethal injections, gassed, burned and turned to ash, because they were deemed guilty of the crime of being different.

We remember what happens when hate takes hold of the human heart and turns it to stone; what happens when victims cry for help and there is no one listening; what happens when humanity fails to recognize that those who are not in our image are none the less in God’s image.

We remember and pay tribute to the survivors, who bore witness to what happened, and to the victims, so that robbed of their lives, they would not be robbed also of their deaths.

We remember and give thanks for the righteous of the nations who saved lives, often at risk of their own, teaching us how in the darkest night we can light a candle of hope.

Today, on Yom Ha'Shoah, we call on You, Almighty God, to help us hear Your voice that says in every generation: 

Do not murder. Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor.

Do not oppress the stranger.

We know that whilst we do not have the ability to change the past, we can change the future. 

We know that whilst we cannot bring the dead back to life, we can ensure their memories live on and that their deaths were not in vain.

And so, on this Yom Ha'Shoah, we commit ourselves to one simple act: Yizkor, Remember. May the souls of the victims be bound in the bond of everlasting life. Amen

May Their Memories Be a Blessing

Dola Abeles

Mendel Abeles and family

Ira Artz

Luba Artz

Mark Artz

Mina Artz

Bankier family

Ella Behrmann

James Behrmann

Leo Behrmann

Rosi Behrmann

Alter Zev Belfer

Baruch Hirsh Belfer

Ben Zion Belfer

Chava Hinda Belfer

Esther Frimet Belfer

Albert Benveniste

Baruch Benveniste

Nissim Benveniste

Ruben Benveniste

Sarah Benveniste

Tsipora Benveniste

Elya Berkovitz

Dvora  Berkovitz

Isadore  Berkovitz

Yacob  Berkovitz

Yussel Berkovitz family

Sender  Berkovitz

Wolf  Berkovitz

Armin Berkowitz

Avram Berkowitz and children

Fyga Berkowitz family

Machla Berkowitz 

Sender Berkowitz family

Tzolil Berkowitz family

Yeedus Berkowitz family

Yitzhak Biener

Meyer Biener

Sarah Biener

Frimeh Blackman

Joseph Blackman

Golda Blackman

Ephraim Blackman

Kurt Bloch

Meta Bloch

Chaya Blumenstein

Gita Blumenstein

Israel Blumenstein

Hakatan Bomberg

Malvena Bomberg

Milo Bomberg

Baruch Brauner

Toba Brauner

Bila Cherlevich

Chana Cherlevich

Fishel Cherlevich

Freda Cherlevich

Shio Cherlevich

Isaac Cordoval

Marie Cordoval

Amalia Diament

Martin Diament

Sammy Diament

Shimon Diament

Yehuda Diament

Avraham Domke

Eliyahu Domke

Miriam Domke

Ruth Domke

Moshe Engel

Yaakov Kopel Engel

Ita Feiman

Mordecai Leib Feiman

Ben Tsiyon Fisch

Barbara Frankl

Paul Frankl

Irene Fried

Eugenia Friedman

Dorothea Frost

Joel Frydman family

Chana Gelberg

Chaim Gelberg

Chuna Gelberg

Devorah Gelberg

Israel Gelberg

Malka Gelberg

Pinchas Gelberg

Rachel Gelberg

Shio Gelberg

Tzirel Gelberg

Wolf Gelberg

Berta Gluck

David Gluck

Herman Gluck

Regina Gluck

Margit Gottesman

Samuel Gottesman

Bertha Gottschalk

Chaim-Itzak Gringuts

Elsa Gruenewald

Henri Gruenewald

Martin Gruenewald

Boolik Grynbaum

Charles Grunberg

Egon Grunberg

Rozika Grunberg

Berl, Dov Grunstein

Chaya Sarah Grunstein

Chayim, Tibor Grunstein

Dvora, Vera Grunstein

Leib Grunstein

Meir, Miklos Grunstein

Mordechai Grunstein

Pinchas Grunstein

Sigmund Grunstein

Yehudit Grunstein

Brahna Heisler

Isadore Heisler

Joseph Heisler

Moishe Aron Heisler

Emil Hermann

Justin Hermann

Ludwig Hermann

Nani Hermann

Bleemah Hershkovitz

Isaac Hershkovitz and 2 sons

Abram Hochman

Jochavaed Fayga Hochman

Binyamin Jakubovics

Miriam Jakubovics

Rivka Jakubovics

Shalom Jakubovics

Ernest Juskovic

Lajos Juskovic

Henena Juskovicova

Avrum Katz

25 descendants of Baruch and Jenny Katz

Chana Katz

Gertrud Katz

Hinza Katz

Isaac Katz

Leibear Katz

Lyla Katz

Nochomon Katz and family

Rifka Katz

Sally Katz

Sura Katz

Yankov Katz

Clara Kaufman

Etta Kaufman

Gita Kaufman

Menachem Mendel Kaufman

Zahava Kaufman

Zev Arya Kaufman

Zvi Mayer Kaufman

Elias Kling

Ernst Kling

Mina Kling

Ruth King

Minna Korach

Kramer family 

Arno Lehman

Levitz family

Nanny Lewin

Ursula Lewin

Berel Liebling

Esther Tillie Liebling

Isaac Liebling

Yechen Liebling

Grete von Minden

Mondrykanen family

Hans Oppenheim

Grete Pachter

Kurt Pachter

Minna Pohlmann

Abraham Raifer

Mojshe Raifer

Zelda Raifer

Henrietta Rappaport

Samuel Rappaport

Andzia Rein

Edek Rein

Jureck Rein

Moshe Rein

Margit Reisman

Sylvia Reisman

Pinchas Roitblum

Yankev Roitblum

Yisrael Roitblum

Chana Rosenbaum

Moishe Aron Rosenbaum and 5 sons

Mina Rosenberg

Mirel Rosenblatt

Tzirel Rosenblatt

Zanvel Rosenblatt

Alter Rottenberg

Chaim Shlomo Rottenberg

Drayzeh Rottenberg

Andrei Sapintan

Avraham Sapintan

Freda Sapintan

Herman Sapinatan

Yehudit Sapintan

Berthold Schiemann

Ester Gringuts-Schlossberg

Eva Schwartz

Nastka Schwartz

Roman Schwartz Selma Schwartz

Raisel Silbermanas

Shmuel Hersch Silbermanas

Yisrael Moshe Silbermanas

Erika Simon

Max Simon

Rita Simon

Agnes Sommer

Bendix Sommer

Doris Sommer

Jacob Sommer

Jenny Sommer

Mina Sommer

Spatzgang Family

Eva Stang

Freda Stang

Irma and Siegfried Stern

Irmagard Stern 

Kurt Stern

Werner Stern

Roman Szmuler

Itzhak Taitelbaum

Moishe Taitelbaum

Pesa Roiza Taitelbaum

Toba Shaindel Taitelbaum

Talman family

Alta Tomber

Yankov Tomber

Weintraub family

Joseph Wilder

Paulina Wilder

Ruchla Ziuta Wilder

Wilder Family

David Winnik

Josef Wirstafter

Abram Woznica

David Woznica

Esther Woznica

Helen Woznica

Mordecai Woznica

Samuel Nathan Woznica

Hindsaison Yankov

Zira family

Tue, April 29 2025 1 Iyyar 5785