HOLOCAUST SERVICE WILL SPOTLIGHT SURVIVOR'S STORY.Byline: R.A. Hutchinson Daily News Staff Writer When Henry Rosemarin was captured by the Nazis during World War II and shipped to a concentration camp, the young Jewish boy found the strength to survive through his harmonica harmonica. 1 The simplest of the musical instruments employing free reeds, known also as the mouth organ or French harp. It was probably invented in 1829 by Friedrich Buschmann of Berlin, who called his instrument the Mundäoline. playing. The Encino man's story will be the centerpiece of a candlelight service at Temple Beth Haverim on Monday to remember victims of the Holocaust Holocaust (hŏl`əkôst', hō`lə–), name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. . ``Each year there are fewer and fewer survivors. That's why I feel it is important to hear from them their stories,'' said Rabbi Gary Johnson Gary Johnson may refer to:
Johnson said that 20 years ago the state of Israel selected the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19–May 16, 1943) Revolt by Polish Jews under Nazi occupation against deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp. By July 1942 the Nazis had herded 500,000 Jews from surrounding areas into the ghetto in Warsaw. as an international day for Jews to remember the persecution they and their forebears suffered at the hands of Nazi soldiers. Millions perished in death camps throughout Europe. In Warsaw, more than 500,000 Jews were forced to live in the crowded ghetto. By 1943, only about 60,000 remained, the rest having been killed in the concentration camps. A small group of the remaining Jews, aware that the Nazis planned to destroyed the ghetto, began secretly accumulating weapons. Although they knew they were doomed, the Jews fought back for 27 days in the uprising before German troops annihilated the ghetto. It took the German soldiers longer to fight those resistors than it did for the army to conquer all of Poland. The service next week will commemorate the heroic efforts of the ghetto fighters as well as pay tribute to those who did not survive. ``We need to do this in order that this terrible thing will never happen again to any people,'' Johnson said. ``We need to be eternally vigilant to maintain the freedom we now have.'' Johnson said children from the Temple Hebrew School Hebrew school can be either (1) the Jewish equivalent of Sunday school - an educational regimen separate from secular education, focusing on topics of Jewish history and learning the Hebrew language, or (2) a primary, secondary or college level educational institution where some or will sing two songs for the somber som·ber adj. 1. a. Dark; gloomy. b. Dull or dark in color. 2. a. Melancholy; dismal: a somber mood. b. Serious; grave. occasion, and members of the Men's Club will lead a series of special memorial prayers. Also, he said, community members who survived the Holocaust will lead in a recital Recital - dBASE-like language and DBMS from Recital Corporation. Versions include Vax VMS. of the ``Kaddish,'' a Jewish prayer for mourners. As part of the remembrance, community members can obtain yahrzeit memorial candles at the temple, 5126 Clareton Drive, Agoura Hills, that they are encouraged to light in their windows in remembrance. THE FACTS WHAT: A remembrance ceremony for Jews who perished in the Holocaust featuring survivor Henry Rosemarin of Encino. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. April 15 WHERE: Temple Beth Haverim, 5126 Clareton Drive, Agoura Hills INFORMATION: (818) 991-7111 CAPTION(S): Photo, Box Photo: Henry Rosemarin and his wife, Janet, by a poste r of Henry, 14, playing harmonica in the Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in the General Government during the Holocaust in World War II. Between 1940 and 1943, starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps dropped the . |
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