BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Interfaith Clergy Association offers an observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), Sunday, April 27, at 4 p.m. at the Brattleboro Area Jewish Community, 151 Greenleaf St.
The hour-long service includes music and readings from the Holocaust era. Participating in the service are members of the clergy and various Brattleboro-area faith communities, including musicians Linda Hecker and Daniel Kasnitz.
Carl H. Rosner, Holocaust survivor and a father and grandfather of members of the Brattleboro Area Jewish Community, will speak.
Forced to leave school in the seventh grade, Rosner lived five years in an orphanage and spent the final year of World War II in the Buchenwald concentration camp. When American troops liberated the camp, Rosner emigrated to Sweden, where he resumed his education and met his future wife, Frieda, also a Holocaust survivor. They came to the United States in 1952.
He worked 16 years for General Electric and then started his own company, Intermagnetics General Corporation (IGC). He speaks out about the Holocaust and dedicates himself as a voice for childhood friends who were lost in the Holocaust.
This service is open to all, but is more appropriate for those older than 10. The service is followed by coffee and light refreshments.