Holocaust Remembrance Day Schedule
Jewish Federation of Ulster County
Sunday, April 7, 2013
PROGRAM
Please enter quietly, take a card, light a candle, and then take a seat
Music composed by MARJORIE BERMAN and sung by the WJC YOUTH CHOIR
Welcome by HARRIET MILLER, President of Ulster County Jewish Federation and
BRURIA FALIK, member of the Board of the Ulster County Jewish Federation
Lighting of the 6 Memorial candles
Poem: I am a survivor, written BY SANDY FALK, and read by DANNY FALK, children of Bruria Falik
RABBI JONATHAN KLIGER leads the Kaddish
Candle lighting honoring the memory of liberators MAJOR CLARENCE BENJAMIN,
TANK COMMANDER GEORGE C. GROSS, and JUDGE CARROL WALSH
JULIA INDICHOVA will read a Memorial Poem
RUTH HIRSCH will speak briefly
Survivors will briefly share their experiences
MATTHEW ROZELL will present “Honoring the Hours of Liberation and Defeating the Legacy of Hitler”
MR. ROZELL is responsible for reuniting Holocaust survivors of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp with the actual American solders who liberated them from a train transport in the closing days of World War II. To date, over 240 survivors have been located around the world, and ten reunions have been held since 2007 with the soldiers who freed them.
Mr. Rozell and his students were named ABC World News “Person of the Week” in September, 2009. He is also a Teaching Fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and has spoken on behalf of their educational programs. The museum maintains a national corps of skilled secondary teachers who serve as leaders in Holocaust education.
Matthew Rozell is also a history teacher from Hudson Falls, NY, and the 2012 recipient of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Founders’ Medal for Education. For the past twenty years he has worked with high school students in preserving the narrative history of the World War II generation. Mr. Rozell was recently selected to travel to Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland for three weeks this summer to study the Holocaust with the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers’ Program. His work can be seen at teachinghistorymatters.wordpress.com.
Refreshments will be served following the program.
Teaching History Matters 