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April 2021
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Community-wide Yom HaShoah When you join Temple Shalom, you join our family. commemoration program It is never too early or too late to make meaningful connections at Temple Shalom. Whether you are he community is invited to attend which will be presented at this year’s Yom married or single, raising young children or an the virtual 2021 Yom HaShoah HaShoah Remembrance. empty nester, here for a few months or year-round. commemoration on Sunday, Conducting the service will be Rabbis EVERY FACE TELLS A STORY. April 11, 2021 at 10 a.m. (EST). The and ArielShalom. Boxman and There is a place forAdam you Miller at Temple a personal journey. The Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida makes history personal every day. Zoom program willEvery be story, hosted by the Cantor Donna Azu of Temple Shalom, You belong here.Chorny of Beth Tikvah, Jewish Federation of Greater Naples. Rabbi Ammos Erik Kellar Photography
By Susan L Suarez, President and CEO, Holocaust Museum & Janet G. and Harvey D. Cohen Education Center
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Benno Benninga, Holocaust Survivor and Sanibel resident
May - December
Reservations are required receive the Tuesday to to Sunday, 1:00-4:00 pm January -April Zoom link. Please visit www.jewishnaples. Tuesday to Friday, 12:30 pm - 5:00 Saturday and Sunday - 4:00 org to register. The Zoom link1:00 will bepm sent out two hours prior to the start of the program. While this is the second year the commemoration will be virtual due to COVID-19, the pandemic didn’t interfere with the creation of a special program involving local Southwest Florida Holocaust survivors, middle school students at Temple Shalom and museum educators at the Holocaust Museum & Janet G. and Harvey D. Cohen Education Center. They just used the technology with which we all, by now, have become very familiar — Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, etc. Over the past few months, students and survivors met virtually to get to know each other. Many thanks to survivors Carla Benninga, Michael Eisenstadt, Rob Nossen and Judit Price for participating in this year’s program. Students also worked remotely with Sam Parish, Director of Operations/Education Specialist at the Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center.
VISIT THE MUSEUM 4760 Tamiami Trail N., Suite 7, Naples www.HolocaustMuseumSWFL.org 239.263.9200
The students pursued learning more about the Holocaust, while honoring and remembering those who died during it. They participated in a remote activity centered on a heroine named Irena Sendler and her selfless acts of resistance and rescue. Students heard from Dr. Stuart Mest, the son of two survivors, as he related both his parents’ stories and the
4630 Herman Pine Ridge Rabbi Howard of Road Naples Naples,and FL Rabbi 34119Mark Jewish Congregation Gross of the Jewish Congregation Phone: (239) 455-3030 of •Marco Island. A candle lighting www.naplestemple.org info@naplestemple.org ceremony with survivors, children and grandchildren of survivors will also impact they had on his upbringing. Then be included. they ‘took’ a one-hour, virtual version of We hope you will join the comthe Museum’s guided tour. munity for this virtual observance Armed with the knowledge gathered to honor and remember victims and from their conversations with surviSurvivors of the Holocaust. Again, vors, interactions with the Museum’s reservations are required to receive the Education Department, Dr. Mest and Zoom link. Please register at www. Temple Shalom classes, the students crejewishnaples.org. ated the “Survivor Interview” project,
EVENT FACTS Virtual 2021 Yom HaShoah commemoration Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 10 a.m. (EST) The Zoom program will be hosted by the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples. Reservations are required to receive the Zoom link. Please visit www.jewishnaples.org to register.
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