Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust

Sun 4 May, 10:30 am. 1440 Spring St. NW, (at 18th & Spring), Atlanta, 30309. Haven Hawley, 678-222-3700. The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum - [email][events]

Yom HaShoah, Annual Community 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 directions to Greenwood Cemetery

Speaker: Dr. Eugen Schoenfeld

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.

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.

Free transportation to Greenwood Cemetery is available to Holocaust survivors. Please contact Judi Ayal by two weeks before the event