YOM HASHOAH – 59th Community-Wide Holocaust Commemoration
WHAT: YOM HASHOAH – 59th Community-Wide Holocaust Commemoration with George Rishfeld
WHEN: Sunday May 5th | 11 am | Rain or Shine
WHERE: Memorial to the Six Million at Greenwood Cemetery| 1173 Cascade Circle SW Atlanta, GA 30311
COST: Free
Join us as we remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and the heroism of survivors and rescuers at the 59th Community-Wide Holocaust Commemoration.
Our featured speaker is Holocaust survivor from Poland, George Rishfeld
George was born in Warsaw, Poland. As an infant, he was thrown over the barbed-wire fence of the Vilna Ghetto into the waiting arms of Halinka, the daughter of a man that worked for George’s father. Risking their own lives, they hid George for the remainder of the war taking him out into the community and to church as if he was their own.
Directions to Greenwood Cemetery: 1173 Cascade Circle SW/Atlanta, GA 30311. From I-85/75, take I-20W to Exit 54: Langhorn St.; Turn left on Langhorn St. SW. At second light, turn right onto Ralph D. Abernathy which becomes Cascade Rd. Go about 1.5 miles. Greenwood Cemetery is on the right just past John White Park.
This Yom HaShoah commemoration is being jointly sponsored by Eternal Life-Hemshech, The Breman, the Lillian and A.J. Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education and the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
In honor of Yom HaShoah, admission to the Breman Museum’s Holocaust exhibition will be free to the public on Sunday, May 5th, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm.
