The City of West Hollywood will host a virtual Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day: Remembering Victims of the Holocaust. Yom HaShoah is an opportunity to remember victims of the Holocaust and to focus on preventing genocides and other human atrocities from happening again.
This year’s Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration will take place on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 12 p.m. via Zoom and will feature a presentation and discussion by Svetlana Portnyansky. The program will feature a screening of Portnyansky’s documentary Theresienshtadt: The Resort, which delves into stories of personal survival and the power of the human spirit. A virtual candle lighting and a musical performance of Schindler’s List by Ludmila Adzhemova and Diana Volman will also be featured. A link to join the Zoom event will be sent to attendees after they RSVP. Please RSVP by contacting Tatyana Rodzinek at (323) 848-6826 or at [email protected].
For more information about the City of West Hollywood’s Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day: Remembering Victims of the Holocaust Virtual Commemoration, please contact Tatyana Rodzinek, the City of West Hollywood’s Russian Community Programs Coordinator at (323) 848-6826 or at [email protected]. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, please call TTY (323) 848-6496.
Perhaps a publishing here of the poem Babi Yar since the Ukraine is once again the site of war’s atrocities.