Teaneck commemorates Yom HaShoah
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- Tova Friedman
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- Survivor Norbert Strauss and his family
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- Studio 1600
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- Stephanie Kurzman and Jonathan Rimberg
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- AJ Schreiber
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- Chani Jaskoll
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- Members of the Holocaust Memorial Committee of Greater Teaneck
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- Tova Friedman addresses the audience.
More than 800 people went to Bergenfield High School for Teaneck’s Holocaust commemoration, where they heard Holocaust survivor and author of “Daughter of Auschwitz,” Tova Friedman, tell her story of survival.
Ms. Friedman, who is 85 now but was a child during the Holocaust, was in Auschwitz for eight months, and hid among the corpses to avoid the death march at the end of the war.
Five generations of the family headed by 97-year-old Norbert Strauss, whose family escaped Germany after Kristallnacht, took part in the candle-lighting ceremony. Rabbi Elliot Schrier of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun recited Tehillim; he also talked about how he’d seen piles of the shoes of victims in Kibbutz Be’eri, murdered on October 7, that were reminiscent of similar piles displayed in concentration camps. AJ Schreiber led the gathering in Kaddish and Kel Maaleh Rachamim while a long list of names of victims of the Shoah related to local families scrolled on the screen.
The program also included music by the students of TABC’s Studio 1600; singer and musician Jonathan Rimberg and violinist Stephanie Kurzman presented music of the Holocaust. To learn more, go to teaneckyomhashoa.org.
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