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Virtual Yom Hashoah programs by HAMEC and partners

With the announcement that Philadelphia-area schools will remain closed through the end of the current academic year, the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center is offering survivor testimony programs as an online educational resource.

The museum and education center is at KleinLife, 10100 Jamison Ave.

HAMEC is marking Yom Hashoah, the annual commemoration of the millions of victims of Nazi Germany’s genocidal policies. It’s been 75 years since the end of the Holocaust.

Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia will host a memorial ceremony and presentation of eyewitness testimony by Pete Stern, whose family was deported to Latvia in 1941 and transferred to the Riga ghetto in 1942, on Sunday, April 19, at 11:45 a.m. on Zoom.

Holocaust survivor and educator Ruth Kapp Hartz will share her testimony about being a hidden child in France and the relevancy of that to the coronavirus crisis and isolation, on Monday, April 20, on Google Meet. HAMEC education director Geoff Quinn will facilitate a question-and-answer session.

Bertha Schwartz, a Holocaust survivor, will share her story of being a young girl in hiding from the Nazi and Vichy regimes, on Sunday, April 26, at 10:30 a.m. on YouTube.

For more information on accessing any of these online programs or to arrange other programs, email [email protected]. ••

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