Holocaust Remembrance Day event was canceled due to low registration. So hundreds showed up on Zoom
On one of the most solemn days on the Jewish calender, Holocaust survivor Arnold Fridland would not be silenced.
Sydney Goldstein, 28, with a little help from others, saw to it.
Fridland, 86, was supposed to speak Thursday evening in Boulder, Colorado, at a Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, event -- a day of reflection on the horrors of the Nazi slaughter of six millions Jews and the millions who lived on.
Goldstein said she tried to register for the event but the online link didn't work. She later learned the program had been canceled because of low registration, she said.
"This kind of sparked a fire in me," Goldstein recalled on Saturday. "There will be a time soon unfortunately where Holocaust survivors aren't going to be around any longer and so we can't waste a single year."
As the Holocaust fades from public memory and anti-Semitism is on the rise, Goldstein was determined to allow Fridland to share his story. (More)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/30/us/holocaust-remembrance-day-arnold-fridland/index.html
My synagogue hosted a community Yom HaShoah event, which I attended on zoom along with 34 others. There was a larger turnout in person. We have a Holocaust survivor in our congregation who usually speaks.
I'm hijacking my own thread, but this year we had a fascinating guest, Izabella Tabarovsky, who spoke about the Holocaust, how it isn't taught in Russia, only the greatness of the red army, victorious in WW2. And their efforts to suppress details and craft historical accounts that support their propeganda, and regain Ukraine and eastern European territory. (Izabella Tabarovsky is a Tablet contributor and a researcher with Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, where she focuses on the politics of historical memory in the former Soviet Union.)