2019 Annual Memorial Service in Israel

July 30, 2019

All are invited to attend the 2019 Annual Memorial Service of the Association of Częstochowa Jews in Israel which will be held at 5:00pm on Sunday 22nd September 2019 at Wohlin House in Givatayim.

This date marks the 77th anniversary of the beginning of the liquidation of the Częstochowa ghetto.

The program will include the Memorial Service, followed by the Association’s Chairman, Alon Goldman, who will speak about the Association’s activities during the past year and plans for 2020.

Holocaust survivor, Gabi Horowitz, will then recall his memories of Yom Kippur,  21st September 1942, the final day of the “Big Ghetto”.

Project Manager of Yad Vashem’s Commemorative Department, Naama Galil, will then speak on “Resistance and Struggle in Częstochowa During the Holocaust”.

The memorial event will be followed by the Association’s Annual General Meeting, which will include elections to the Association’s Committee for the next year. Anyone interested in standing is encouraged to contact Alon Goldman.

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