Yom HaShoah Commemoration 2025
Sunday, April 27, 2025 • 29 Nisan 5785
2:00 PM - 4:00 PMIn-Person at the Bender JCC
We are pleased to return to an in-person format for the 2025 Yom Ha'Shoah Commemoration at the Bender JCC of Greater Washington on Sunday, April 27, 2:00 PM with keynote speaker Frank Cohn. Please sign up to attend by clicking here. We encourage you to share with your family and friends and make plans to join us.
3GDC and JCRC will co-sponsor the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Service at Sixth and I on Wednesday, April 23 at 7:00 PM. More details are forthcoming.
Other programs include: Dor L’Dor, an intergenerational program for teens & their families and educators to meet with and hear local Holocaust survivors share their living testimonies. Unto Every Person There is a Name (virtual), the public reading of Shoah victims’ names, co-sponsored by B’nai B’rith International and the JCRC. Names will be read by elected officials from the DMV and by students from local Jewish Day Schools.
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