Community-wide commemoration marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

Community-wide commemoration marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education will observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a community-wide meeting on Wednesday, January 23, at the New City Jewish Center at 7 p.m.

Brenda Weisman and Amy Edelstein, daughter and granddaughter of the youngest Bielski brother, present “Legacies of Defiance.” They will discuss the Bielski partisans, as portrayed in the film “Defiance.”

International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945. For more information, call (845) 574-4099 or go to holocauststudies.org.

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