Apr

17 2023

Yom Hashoah 2023

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Louis S. Wolk Jewish Community Center 1200 Edgewood Avenue
Rochester, NY 14618

Contact Sapir Soble
585.241.8628
ssoble@jewishrochester.org

PLEASE JOIN THE CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST AWARENESS AND INFORMATION (CHAI) OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER TO COMMEMORATE YOM HASHOAH

APRIL 17TH AT 7:00 P.M. | LOUIS S. WOLK JCC AUDITORIUM

Join us for our community's annual candle-lighting ceremony and memorial for those who perished in The Shoah. This year, we will also be commemorating the 80-year anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an important moment of Jewish resistance and resilience in German-occupied Poland.

Keynote Address with Michael Dobkowski We are pleased to welcome Michael Dobkowski, Chair of Holocaust Studies at Hobart and William Smith College, to discuss the history of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Jewish resistance to Nazism.

This event is free and open to the public. ASL interpreters are available.