Commemoration of 70th Anniversary of the End of the Holocaust and the Defeat of the Nazis at

Commemoration of 70th Anniversary of the End of the Holocaust and the Defeat of the Nazis

            Hollywood Temple Beth El and the Iranian American Jewish Federation invite the community to a joint service, From Darkness to a Great Light: Commemorating the 70th Year of End of the Holocaust and the Shattering of the Nazi Death Camps on Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 12:00 noon, following Shabbat Services beginning at 9:45 AM. The Temple is located at 1317 N Crescent Heights Blvd, West Hollywood.

            At the service, members who were themselves survivors of the Holocaust will be honored and memorial prayers will be chanted on behalf of  the martyrs of Nazi horror and the soldiers who gave their lives to destroy the Nazi horror . 

            The concentration camps were liberated by Allied forces in the months leading up to the end of World War II in Europe on May 8, 1945. These battle-hardened soldiers were shocked to discover these grim factories of death whose main function was to exterminate the entire Jewish people.

            Rabbi Norbert Weinberg, author of Courage of the Spirit , will speak on The Nazi War against Judaism and the Jews: What my father learned in a prison in Nazi Berlin. Rabbi Weinbergs father was imprisoned twice by the Nazis and escaped to the Soviet Union; his mother survived under false identity in Warsaw

For more information please call  HTBE at 323-656-3150 or IAJF at 323-654-4700

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