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Holocaust Observance, May 4, 2016
Community Event. Survivors and their families will tell their stories. Those who died will be remembered through testimony and song.
Synagogues and congregations from Sharon, Stoughton, Canton, Easton, Norwood and Brockton will join together to sponsor the annual "Day of Remembering the Holocaust and the Bravery", Yom HaShoah v'HaG'vurah, on Wednesday, May 4th, at 7 PM at Temple Israel, 125 Pond St. , Sharon, MA. This special observance, which is free and open to the entire community, is sponsored by Temple Israel, Sisterhood Adath Sharon, Temple Sinai, Temple Kol Tikvah, Ahavath Torah Congregation, Temple Beth Abraham of Canton, Temple Beth David of the South Shore, Temple Chayai Shalom, Temple Beth Emunah of Brockton, and Temple Shaare Tefilah. This community wide event will include a short service, candle lighting, reading of names, testimonies from survivors and family of survivors, and musical presentations. Everyone attending is encouraged to bring new and used postage stamps to the service to support the "Holocaust Stamps Project", currently underway at the Foxborough Regional Charter School. The goal of the stamps project is, "...to honor (as) many victims, one stamp at a time." The Day of Remembering the Holocaust and the Bravery is free and open to the public.