This year, the honored speakers who survived the Holocaust are Roman Kent, born in Lodz, Poland, survived the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other concentration camps, and Renée Fink, born in Holland, and went into hiding at the age of four with a Catholic family until after World War II ended, when she was eight. This year’s program, Evade and Endure, presents eyewitness testimony from the Holocaust, the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews, including more than one million children, by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Kent and other speakers, at the Lincoln Theatre, in Washington, DC, on April 26, 2017. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.įollowing the 24th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Program, by The Federal Inter-Agency Holocaust Remembrance Committee, the audience of federal staffers, school children and public are able to personally meet and talk with Roman R.
May, Soloist performing Rozhinkes mit Mandlen closing remarks by Ruth Marcus and Musical Postlude-Oseh Shalom by Marty Austin Lamar and the 6th in the City Chorus. Kent, with moderator Ruth Marcus candle lighting ceremony with Renée Fink Ron Weiss, Merit Systems Protection Board Susan Irene Kent Avjian Michael Wolf, Federal Labor Relations Authority Adina Siff & Eliav Brooks Rubin, Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital Annie Grace Fowler, Elizabeth Seton High School and Ruth Marcus, with reader Jeff Knishkowy and Molly D. The program included a Musical Prelude-Total Praise/Esa Ainai performed by 6th in the City Chorus – Director Marty Austin Lamar welcome message by Committee Chair Anthony Fowler Color Guard and National Anthem supported by The United States Armed Forces Color Guard and 6th in the City Chorus welcome remarks by Ruth Marcus, moderation by Washington Post reporter, columnist and the Deputy Editorial Page Editor Ruth Marcus tribute to Elie Wiesel panel discussion with Holocaust Survivors Renée Fink and Roman R. She lived in an occupied and heavily bombed part of Holland while in hiding. Following the 24th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Program, by The Federal Inter-Agency Holocaust Remembrance Committee, the audience of federal staffers, school children and public are able to personally meet and talk with the opening and featured speakers, at the Lincoln Theatre, in Washington, DC, on April 26, 2017.