“Never Again: What You Do Matters”Source: Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford
Raymond Clark III, 18, Bloomfield High School senior and award-winning guitar composer/soloist will join Connecticut Senate Chaplain and author Dr. Rabbi Philip Lazowski in a program which also includes a performance by West Hartford’s William H. Hall High School Choraliers, directed by Lorri Cetto. Clark has played with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and is the recipient of numerous academic and music awards. Rabbi Philip Lazowski is Rabbi Emeritus of Beth Hillel Synagogue, Bloomfield and is the author of “Faith and Destiny”, an account of his survival during the Holocaust by hiding in the White Russian Woods.
With the theme “Never Again: What You Do Matters” the program will be presided over by Senate President Pro Tempore Donald Williams, with participation by Deacon Arthur L. Miller, Office for Black Catholic Ministries, the Jewish War Veterans, Russian War Veterans, Rabbi Joseph Gopin, Rabbi James Rosen, Cantor Sanford Cohn and ushers from Hebrew High School of New England. Alan Lazowski of Hartford, is 31st Annual Holocaust Commemoration Chair.
As the number of living first-hand witnesses to the Holocaust dwindles with each passing year, a memorial candle lighting ceremony to remember the Six Million will be conducted by Greater Hartford Survivors Ernest Gelb (Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora), Fred and Regina Jacobs (Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen) Rabbi Philip and Ruth Lazowski (White Russian Woods) Robert Lesser (White Russian Woods and Dworetz Labor Camp) Abraham Smolar (Vilna Ghetto, Ereda, Narva and Port Kunda) and Eve Soumerai (Kindertransport).
The event is free and open to the public, followed by a kosher luncheon by advance reservation only. For more information and luncheon reservations contact the Jewish Federation Association of CT (JFACT), jfact@mcmgmt.com, 860-727-5771.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford is the host community for the April 24 commemoration, which is co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation Association of CT (JFACT) and the Jewish Federations of Greater Danbury, Eastern CT, Greenwich, Greater New Haven, Greater Stamford, New Canaan & Darien, Western Connecticut and Westport –Weston- Wilton - Norwalk in coordination with the Anti-Defamation League, The Christian Conference of Connecticut, the State of Connecticut, State of Israel Bonds and the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
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U.S. President Barack Obama has paid tribute to the memory of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. The president called on people worldwide to ensure that nothing like it ever happens again.
In a Holocaust Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol, President Obama warned of the dangers of silence when atrocities are being committed. And he said bearing witness to such horrors is only the first step.
"To commit ourselves to resisting injustice and intolerance and indifference, in whatever forms they may take, whether confronting those who tell lies about history or doing everything we can to prevent and end atrocities like those that took place in Rwanda, those taking place in Darfur," Mr. Obama said.
Holocaust Days of Remembrance is a week-long observance, recalling the brutality of Nazi Germany and its collaborators toward Europe's Jews and others during World War II.
Mr. Obama did not name names, but said that some people still deny that the Holocaust took place.
"There are those who insist the Holocaust never happened, who perpetrate every form of intolerance-racism and anti-Semitism, homophobia, xenophobia, sexism and more-hatred that degrades its victim and diminishes us all," Mr. Obama said.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has often denied the Holocaust. At the Capitol Hill ceremony, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel condemned the Iranian leader's comments this week at the United Nations Conference on Racism.
"I just came back from Geneva, where we attended an event that was incredibly offensive," Wiesel said.....
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