In commemoration of the Holocaust Memorial Day, on Friday, April 29, Temple Adas Israel has invited the Southampton High School students in Saundra Dubin’s Holocaust course to share what they have learned and experienced in this class.
This program is titled, “Being an Upstander: Voices from a New Generation.” The program will take place on Friday, April 29, at 5 PM at Old Whaler’s Church in Sag Harbor, followed by Shabbat services at 6 PM. The program will be in-person, live-streamed and on zoom and may be accessed on Temple Israel’s home page of the website: templeadasisrael.org
Fourteen of Dubin’s students will share stories about the Holocaust survivors whom they had met and interviewed. They will also talk about how the school’s Holocaust courses have impacted them and what changes they will make in their lives based on lessons learned.
Other students will be presenting artwork that they created based on studies in the course. Among the artwork is student-artist Luz Hernandez’s series of pictures of Janusz Korczak, a well-known pediatrician and author who ran a Jewish orphanage in Poland. Korczak chose to accompany the orphans to Treblinka, a death camp, rather than accept repeated opportunities to leave Poland. One of Hernandez’s images appears on the flyer for the Remembrance Day event.
Teens of Temple Adas Israel will chant the special mourner’s prayer which includes the names of the concentration camps. This commemoration ceremony will conclude with the traditional lighting of seven memorial candles lit in memory of the 6 million Jews killed and 1 million others.