Yom HaShoah 2018 – Saint John

SAINT JOHN JEWISH HISTORICAL MUSEUM

91 LEINSTER STREET, SAINT JOHN, N.B.  E2L 1J2

TEL: (506) 633-1833; EMAIL : SJJHM@NBNET.NB.CA

  

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCE

(YOM HASHOAH)

MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2018; 7:30 P.M.

 

SHAAREI ZEDEK SYNAGOGUE

91 LEINSTER STREET, SAINT JOHN, N.B.

 The programme will feature a keynote address by Mrs. Faigie Libman. She was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1934, an only child. Her mother was a nurse and her father owned a successful bookstore. In 1941, when Germany invaded Lithuania, the Jews of Kaunas were ordered into the ghetto. More than half of the ghetto population was murdered later that year. In 1944, the remaining Jews in Kaunas were transported in cattle cars to concentration camps. Her father was sent to Dachau where he died in 1945. Faigie and her mother were shipped to Stutthof, where her mother dressed her to look older and told the Nazis she was 12, so that she could work and not be killed with the other children. After leaving Stutthof, they lived in three small labour camps until they were liberated by the Russians in 1945. Mrs. Libman and her mother were the only surviving members of their family. After three years in a Displaced Persons camp in Austria, an aunt was located in Montreal and they emigrated to a new life in 1948. For 52 years, she was married to Benny Libman, also a Holocaust survivor. They had four children and 11 grandchildren. Ms. Libman graduated as an accountant, but later went back to school to get her teacher’s certificate. In 1972, they moved to Toronto, where she taught Junior Kindergarten for more than 30 years. 

Memorial candles will be lit in memory of victims of the Holocaust.

Work done by high school students who are participating in the Jewish Holocaust Study Group will be shown. 

This programme is made possible with financial assistance from The Atlantic Jewish Council and the Exhibition Renewal and Museum Activities Support Program, Heritage Branch, Province of New Brunswick.

           For further information please contact the Saint John Jewish Historical Museum :

 (506) 633-1833 or sjjhm@nbnet.nb.ca