Sixty-Seven Years since the Liquidation – Beit Vilna 2010
The Association of Jews from Vilna and the Vicinity, in Israel and the Second Generation Brotherhood, are honored to invite you, your family, and representatives of the next generation to a memorial event marking sixty-seven years since the liquidation of the ghetto and the extermination of the Jewry of Jerusalem DeLita, to take place on Tuesday, September 14, 2010, Beit Vilna in Tel Aviv, 30 Sderot Yehudit (Montefiore neighborhood) at 18:00.
Assembly and Light Refreshments - from 17:00
On the program:
* Opening Remarks, by Mr. Michael Schemyavitz, Chairman of the Board of the Association
* Narration of a Personal Memory from the Day of the liquidation of the Ghetto
* Words in the Name of the Next Generation, by Mickey Kantor
* Candle Lighting in Memory of the Martyrs of Vilna and the Vicinity
* Reading the Names of the deceased in the past year
* Verses from the Book of Psalms, El Malei Rachamim (God Full of Mercy) and Kaddish, by Rabbi Shaul Farber
On the artistic program: Ruth Levin, actress and singer, today a leader in the revival of Yiddish culture, known for her performances and recordings of Yiddish song and plays; a translator of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, recipient of the Segal Prize for Yiddish culture.
Ghetto songs by the Beit Vilna Choir conducted by Tamara Eitzes
- Ghetto songs, the Partisan Anthem
Wishing you all Shana Tova!
Chairman of the Association and Members of the Culture Committee