Yom HaShoah in Emerson
At Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson’s annual Yom HaShoah Day service, six candles were lit in memory of the six million Jews who died during the Holocaust; another 18 candles, symbolizing chai — life — were lit in recognition of the lives of the generation that rose from the ashes. Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel and congregant Rachel Kugelmass presented a portion of a play, “Two.” Congregant Dave Bloom asked that his candle represent the lives and memory of more than 60 members of his family who had lived in the Netherlands and died in Mauthausen, Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, and other concentration camps during the Holocaust.
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