Yom Hashoah  Wednesday 18 April 2012 19.00

International Jewish remembrance

Jews throughout the world remember the victims of the Nazi terror on Yom Hashoah. Shoah is the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, the destruction of Jews worldwide during World War II. Yom Hashoah falls on 26 Nisan in the Hebrew calendar. This is the same date as that of the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis in 1943. In the Netherlands this is also a solemn day of remembrance, organized in the Hollandsche Schouwburg by the Jewish community.

• Music: Achat Sha'alti, psalm 27, Paul Schoenfeld (1947) by Mia Dreese (flute) and Marjes Benoist (piano)
• Speech by Eberhard van der Laan, mayor of Amsterdam
• Lighting of special candles by representatives of van Jewish youth societies
• Music: Morceau, Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) by Mia Dreese (flute) and Marjes Benoist (piano)
• Speech by Chaim Divon, Ambassador of Israël
• Yizkor (memorial prayer) by A. Rosenberg
• Kaddish (prayer for the death) by de heer A. Rosenberg
• Music: Sephardic Melody, Paul Ben-Haim (1897- 1984) by Mia Dreese (flute) and Marjes Benoist (piano)
• Speech by Ron van der Wieken   
• Speech by Awigal Boemendal
  
• Partizan song Zog nit kejnmal by chazan Gilad Nezer
• Two minutes of scilence
• Wilhelmus and HaTikva

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