The City of Chicago’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day will be observed at noon Thursday, April 21, in the Winter Garden of the Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St. The event is free and open to the public.
This year’s keynote speaker, Barbara Steiner, will relate her personal ordeal as a survivor of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, where she joined other young people in the historic 28-day revolt against Nazi troops. Her suffering continued through three more deportations until she was liberated in 1945. Her vivid description of man’s inhumanity to man is a cautionary tale of the result of extreme prejudice.
The program also features a candle lighting ceremony with local holocaust survivors, and comments by Moshe Ram, Consul General of Israel. The event also features the violins of Magical Strings of Youth, a ceremonial prayer (El Moleh Rachamin), delivered by Hazzan Alberto Mizrahi. |
