Annual Commemoration of the Holocaust
Monday, April 24 | 7:00 pm
Please be with us on Monday evening, April 24 at 7:00 pm, as our community gathers together for our annual observance of Yom HaShoah, the commemoration of the Holocaust. Featuring the lighting of the six-branched candelabrum in memory of the Six Million by Holocaust survivors and their descendants, our service also will include a presentation by bestselling author David Kinney. We will be joined as well by area clergy and choirs and, once again, by the Choir of the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. A special feature will be a short vignette performed by members of the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet.
SERVICE
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PROGRAM
David Kinney’s new bestseller, The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich, co-authored by Robert K. Wittman, investigates the disappearance of a private diary penned by one of Adolf Hitler’s top aides—Alfred Rosenberg, his “chief philosopher”—and mines its long-hidden pages to deliver a fresh, eye-opening account of the Nazi rise to power and the genesis of the Holocaust.
An influential figure in Adolf Hitler’s early inner circle from the start, Alfred Rosenberg made his name spreading toxic ideas about the Jews throughout Germany. By the dawn of the Third Reich, he had published a bestselling masterwork that was a touchstone of Nazi thinking. His diary was discovered hidden in a Bavarian castle at war’s end—five hundred pages providing a harrowing glimpse into the mind of a man whose ideas set the stage for the Holocaust. Prosecutors examined it during the Nuremberg war crimes trial, but after Rosenberg was convicted, sentenced, and executed, it mysteriously vanished. From the crusading Nuremberg prosecutor who smuggled the diary out of Germany to the man who finally turned it over, everyone had reasons for hiding the truth. Drawing on Rosenberg’s entries about his role in the seizure of priceless artwork and the brutal occupation of the Soviet Union, his conversations with Hitler and his endless rivalries with Göring, Goebbels, and Himmler, The Devil’s Diary offers vital historical insight of unprecedented scope and intimacy into the innermost workings of the Nazi regime—and into the psyche of the man whose radical vision mutated into the Final Solution. Internationally renowned journalist David Kinney is the author of The Big One: An Island, an Obsession, and the Furious Pursuit of a Great Fish and The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob. At The Star-Ledger, his team won a Pulitzer Prize for covering Jim McGreevey’s resignation. |
YELLOW CANDLES FOR YOM HASHOAH
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Keep alive the memory of those who perished in The Holocaust by lighting a yellow candle on Yom HaShoah. The Yellow Candle is a special memorial candle with yellow wax, in remembrance of the yellow stars forced upon European Jews in the 1930s. In the weeks ahead you will see Yellow Candles on display at Shabbat Services and special events. Please take one home and light it on Yom HaShoah (April 23-24) for those who have no one left to remember them.
Brought to you by Men of Reform Judaism and MLRT Brotherhood. |
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