Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Programs in Atlantic Canada: 2023
All programs are FREE and open to the public.
Fredericton, NB, Jewish Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration:
Date/Time: Sunday, April 16, 2023, 3:00 p.m.
Place: Capital Community Church, 71 Downing Street, Fredericton.
Keynote speaker: Leonard Vis, Holocaust survivor.
Prince Edward Island Jewish Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration:
Date/Time: Sunday, April 16, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Place: Confederation Centre for the Arts, Memorial Hall, Charlottetown.
Keynote speaker: J. J. Steinfeld, PEI award-winning poet, fiction writer, and playwright – “IDENTITY DREAMS AND MEMORY SOUNDS: The Holocaust, Jewish Identity, and Intergenerational Trauma through the Lens of a Second-Generation Author’s Post-Holocaust Writing.”
Halifax, NS, Jewish Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration:
Date/Time: Monday, April 17, 2023, 6:30 p.m.
Place: Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax.
Keynote speaker: Israel Unger, Holocaust survivor, in conversation with Olga Milosevich, retired CBC Radio Broadcaster.
Saint John, NB, Jewish Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration:
Date/Time: Monday, April 17, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Place: Saint John Jewish Historical Museum, 91 Leinster Street, Saint John.
Keynote speaker: Leonard Vis, Holocaust survivor.
Moncton, NB, Jewish Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration:
Date/Time: Sunday, April 23, 2023, 2:00 p.m.
Place: Tiferes Israel Synagogue, 56 Steadman Street, Moncton.
Keynote speaker: Gally Felter Gonen.
St. John’s, NL, Jewish Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration:
Date/Time: Sunday, May 7, 2023, 3:00 p.m.
Place: Inco Centre, Memorial University, St. John’s.
Keynote speaker: Pinchas Gutter, Holocaust survivor, (via zoom).
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So grateful this program has come to spite 21, I have been reading a great deal on the Holocaust fiction and nonfiction. This world is again experiencing the rise of dictatorships around the world, we see the growing bad behaviour associated with discrimination and it is my hope that our children around the world is rightfully taught that yes there was a Holocaust and millions – families (children and the aged) were sent to the crematoriums as ordered by Hitler and his henchmen to wipe out all of those of Jewish blood, communists, gypsies, those who were handicapped and of new use to Hitler’s dream of a pure German race.
For those who survived and their extended families my heartfelt sympathies and love to you.
So excited about Menachem Kaiser coming to Halifax – his book is fantastic!