Teaneck marks Yom HaShoah
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- The Legacy Family of Shlomo and Sarah Barber
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- Teaneck Holocaust Commemoration Committee
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- TABC Choir
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- Mark Schonwetter, Holocaust survivor and keynote speaker
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- Felicia Grossman, co-chair, Teaneck Yom HaShoah Committee
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- Rabbi Joshua Kahn of Torah Academy of Bergen County
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- Steve Fox, president of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Teaneck
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- Stephanie Kurtzman and Jonathan Rimberg
The Teaneck Yom HaShoah Commemoration Committee, a division of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Teaneck, held its annual Yom HaShoah commemoration on April 14 at Bergenfield High School. The Council president, Steve Fox, talked about how communal unity has been so important in this time of war in Israel and how the need for a permanent Holocaust memorial during these days of rising antisemitism is more vital than ever. The annual Teaneck commemoration is one of the largest and oldest in New Jersey and is sponsored by community members and local synagogues.
Program chairs Felicia Grossman and Chani Jaskoll introduced the keynote speaker, Mark Schonwetter, a hidden child during the Holocaust, who told his story of survival. The program also included the family of Shlomo and Sarah Barber, this year’s Legacy Family, who told their parents’ story of survival, and then had their children and grandchildren join them, to show the continuity of the Jewish people
There was a special tribute to Rabbi Yosef Adler, z”l, by Rabbi Joshua Kahn, Torah Academy of Bergen County’s Rosh HaYeshiva, and the TABC choir. Jonathan Rimberg and Stephanie Kurtzman also performed.
Rabbi Avraham Wein, Congregation Keter Torah’s assistant rabbi, read psalms, AJ Schreiber recited the Kaddish and K’el Maaleh Rachamim, and a scroll with names of Holocaust victims and survivors with community ties was displayed on the screen.
TABC student artwork will be on display at the Teaneck Library through April. For information, go to TeaneckYomHaShoa.org.
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