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APRIL 29, 2016 | 21 NISAN 5776
Inside: Yom HaShoah Special Section, Pages 15-21
Holocaust Ceremony Will Turn To Children
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AGING WELL
As Emory launches a massive study of aging, the Jewish Home shares tips on how to do it better. Page 6
30-YEAR JOURNEY
Once an outcast place for gay Jews, Bet Haverim has become a core part of the Jewish community. Page 8
SACRED SPACE
A Jewish-owned art collection at the Carlos sheds light on Tibetan Buddhism. Page 22
WINNING RUN
A rare winning season has Weber baseball on the verge of the playoffs. Page 27
In Every Generation Photos by David R. Cohen
Led by Bob Bahr, around 60 Sunrise at Huntcliff Summit residents gather for a model Passover seder Thursday, April 21, held a day before the start of the holiday to enable people also to attend seders with their families. Although the assisted living facility in Sandy Springs is not strictly a Jewish residence, many of the seniors who live there are Jewish, and this is the 10th year they have come together for a seder.
he children of the Holocaust — those who survived, those who perished, and those who never were and never will be — are the focus of this year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration Sunday, May 1, at the Memorial to the Six Million at Greenwood Cemetery. “Now that the older survivors are not with us — just a handful — what we’ve got left are survivors who were children,” said Jeannette Zukor, who is chairing the 51st annual ceremony organized by the survivor group Eternal Life-Hemshech at the Greenwood memorial. “Not all of them got out by the Kindertransport.” In September 1939, an estimated 1.6 million Jewish children lived in areas the Nazis would control; 1.5 million Jewish children were dead by May 1945. Most of the children who survived spent at least some time hiding, Zukor said, and they had to scrounge and suffer through the hunger, disease and terror of the ghettos and brutal occupation. Such was the experience of Robert Ratonyi, the featured speaker May 1. Born in Budapest in 1938, Ratonyi saw his father taken as forced labor, then lost his mother one night in October 1944 when all the adults were marched off, leaving the children to fend for themselves. He didn’t see his mother again until the summer after the war ended in 1945. “It’s important for me to tell my story,” Ratonyi, 78, told students at Georgia Tech in March. “Twenty years from now there will be articles written saying the Holocaust didn’t exist, but you will have heard from someone who was there.” You can hear Ratonyi and see all of the survivors light memorial candles at 11 a.m. May 1 at Greenwood Cemetery, 1173 Cascade Circle, southwest Atlanta. The event, to be held rain or shine, is free, as is admission that day to the Holocaust exhibit at the Breman Museum. ■