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Holocaust-Related Programming

Yom HaShoah
43rd Annual Community-wide Commemoration of the
Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust

Sunday, May 4, 2008, at 10:30 AM
rain or shine at the Memorial to the Six Million, Greenwood Cemetery
learn more about the monument

directions to Greenwood Cemetery

Speaker: Dr. Eugen Schoenfeld
Retired Chair, Department of Sociology, Georgia State University

In commemoration of Yom HaShoah, The Breman will waive museum admission fees on Sunday, May 4th from 1 - 5 p.m. All galleries, including its signature exhibition, Absence of Humanity: The Holocaust Years, will be open to visitors.

A complimentary public program on the International Tracing Service will be presented at 2:30pm at The Breman by staff members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The Atlanta community commemoration of Yom HaShoah at the Memorial to the Six Million is jointly sponsored by:

Eternal Life — Hemshech, Organization of Holocaust Survivors, Their Descendants and Those Dedicated to Commemorating the Six Million Jewish Victims of the Nazi Holocaust

Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta

The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum

The commemoration is coordinated by:

Lillian and A.J. Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education of The Breman

This program is underwritten by Andrew and Karen Lansky Edlin and family, in loving memory of Lola and Rubin Lansky

If you would like to download a printable general information flyer,
please click here.

Download a flyer with information about free transportation to the Commemoration.

For forty years, the Memorial to the Six Million at Greenwood Cemetery has held a special significance to the Atlanta Holocaust survivor community.

In 1964, almost twenty years after the end of the World War II, Atlanta's small community of Holocaust survivors formed Eternal Life-Hemshech. The organization's first mission was the creation of a permanent monument as a place for saying kaddish, symbolically representing the graves of loved ones who perished at the hands of the Nazis.

Commemorating the lives and souls of those who perished are six nineteen-foot torches that soar from a tomb inside the monument containing human ashes transported from Dachau. The walls inside the monument are lined with more than one hundred inscribed yahrzeit plaques bearing the names of victims.

For present and future generations, the Atlanta Memorial to the Six Million is a lasting reminder of hemschech — Hebrew for "continuation."

Each year, the Atlanta community remembers those who perished and keeps their memory alive for future generations at the annual community Yom HaShoah commemoration. Please join us as we gather together at the Memorial.

For more information about the annual commemoration of Yom HaShoah at Greenwood Cemetery, contact Judi Ayal at 404-870-1632 or jayal@thebreman.org, or visit www.thebreman.org.

Directions to Greenwood Cemetery: Form I-85/75, take I-20 W to exit 54: Lanhorn St. to Cascade Rd., turn left. At the second light, turn right onto Ralph D. Abernathy, which becomes Cascade Rd. Go about 1.5 miles. Cemetery is on the right just past John White Park, located at 1173 Cascade Ave. SE.