Holocaust Remembrance Day: Virtual Kugel & Connections

While we weren't able to gather in person this year for Kugel & Connections, thanks to the Holocaust Center for Humanity, we invite you to join in commemoration of Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) for a special online program highlighting themes of resilience, hope, determination, and generosity of spirit.

Guest speakers include Holocaust survivor George Elbaum, Rabbi Daniel Wiener of Temple De Hirsch Sinai, and Dee Simon, Baral Family Executive Director of the Holocaust Center for Humanity.

George Elbaum was born in Warsaw, Poland on August 20, 1938, one year before Hitler invaded Poland. George's mother, acutely aware of the danger she and her son were in, purchased the identification documents of a Catholic woman who had died. In 1942, she smuggled George out of the Warsaw ghetto and paid various Polish Catholic families to hide and raise him.

Rabbi Daniel Wiener is the senior rabbi at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, one of the largest reform congregations in the Pacific Northwest. He is passionate about social justice and collaboration between religions and religious leaders.

Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorates the 6 million Jews and millions of others who were killed in the Holocaust. The date is set in accordance with the Hebrew calendar, on the 27th of Nisan, so that it varies in regard to the Gregorian calendar. The date was chosen to mark the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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If this interests you, we have also launched "From Generation to Generation" - a program designed to promote inter-generational social outreach during the COVID-19 crisis between Holocaust survivors and young adults. Fill out this form to get involved!