Annual Holocaust Commemoration to be held Sunday in Beckley

Annual Holocaust Commemoration to be held Sunday in Beckley

BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) -- Beckley's Temple Beth-El will host its' annual Holocaust Commemoration ceremony Sunday, April 27, 2025, at Carter Hall on WVU Tech's campus. Beckley Pride 2025 event cancelled The event will begin at one in the afternoon with music curated around the theme of "common humanity." That's according to Dr. Joseph Golden who is organizing the ceremony. He said following the music will be a reading of the story of Max Lewin,…

Holocaust survivor shares his story during remembrance ceremony

People gathered inside the Senate chambers of the Connecticut State Capitol on Friday for the 43rd Annual Holocaust Commemoration ceremony. They remembered the six million Jewish people who died in the Holocaust. Sen. Richard Blumenthal spoke about the rise in antisemitic acts across the world and remind those attending that horrific acts like the Holocaust can happen anywhere that hate is allowed to survive. Leon Chameides lived it. He was just…

A Holocaust survivor brings her story to CSULB – Long Beach Current

Yetta Kane’s first experience of the Nazis came when she was just a little girl. Kane, a Jew, was playing with a friend in the Polish neighborhood where she was born when the Gestapo shot a Jewish man right in front of her.  As the war escalated and the plight of Poland’s Jewish people grew more dire, Kane and her family fled their hometown in 1940, beginning nearly three years on the run. They endured horrific conditions, eventually reaching Si…