(Helen Neafsey/Greenwich Time Staff photo)
Karen Marks fought back tears yesterday as she told her mother's story of survival of not one but two concentration camps during the Holocaust to worshippers at the First United Methodist Church of Greenwich...
...It was a day of mixed emotions for organizers of the solemn tribute, who said they were heartened by the show of unity between the two faiths but saddened by the atrocities of the Holocaust.
"It's also heartbreaking that we have to do this," said the Rev. Kenneth Kieffer, the church's pastor.
Kieffer brought several worshippers to tears with his homily about...
...Among those who read from "The Diary of Anne Frank" during the service was Salomon's daughter, Micole Himelfarb. The story chr onicles a German-born Jewish girl who was forced to hide with her family in an attic in Amsterdam during the Holocaust.
"It's as if the whole world has been turned upside-down," Micole read, quoting Frank's diary.
Frank and her family were discovered by the Nazis and she died of typhus in a concentration camp two weeks before the camp's liberation. Her father found her diary and pushed to have it published.
Children's choir members from the church and the Hebrew school placed 10 flowers in a vase on the church's altar, one for each concentration camp. Six candles were also lit to remember the 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust.
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