Yom HaShoah

7-8:30 pm | Higgins Middle School 

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State University invites the public to attend its annual Yom HaShoah remembrance ceremony. Yom HaShoah is held in honor and remembrance of victims and survivors of the Holocaust. This year’s program will feature a memorial service, traditional songs performed by the Salem State Community Chorus, and a talk by Holocaust survivor, Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff.

Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff fled Kosice, Slovakia as a small child in 1941 via Lisbon, Portugal with her parents and infant brother, the late Federal Honorable Judge Ted Klein. She is the founding Director of the Teacher Institute on Holocaust Studies for the University of Miami’s School of Education. Dr. Klein Kassenoff has written and lectured on an array of Holocaust topics, including “Women in the Holocaust” and “Literature of the Holocaust.”

The ceremony is free and open to the public. It will take place in person, and it will also be livestreamed on Zoom.

To attend the ceremony in person, please register for the in person ceremony.

To watch the ceremony on Zoom, please register for the Zoom ceremony.

Please email us at chgs@salemstate.edu if you have any questions.

This event is supported by the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, the Congregation Ahabat Sholom Religious Fund, and the North Shore Rabbis and Cantors Association.