The Hartman Institute plans to expand the program next year with gatherings held in smaller group settings, like in synagogues, community centers and even private homes, and has trained more than 70 American rabbis and educators to lead them. More than 500 people are registered for the American institute’s Zoom program on Wednesday night. It’s not going to work forever,” said Rebecca Starr, the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America’s Midwest director, who is working to bring the program to the United States. “We do need new ritual around this experience because we can’t continue to just have Holocaust survivors speak. It’s an attempt not only to create a lasting ritual to commemorate the Holocaust that can outlive the survivors, but also to shift the focus from the tragedy to spend more time on internalizing its lessons about combating evil. The program, which Govrin developed in Israel as a researcher at the Van Leer Institute and launched in 2015 at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, is being held in the United States for the first time this year. “How are we going to transmit? This is the big question, and that is why I started the whole project,” said Govrin, whose mother survived Auschwitz. That reality drove Michal Govrin, an Israeli writer and professor, and the daughter of a survivor, to adapt perhaps the most universally recognizable Jewish practice, the Passover seder, into a new ritual to mark Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. Rabbi Brian Serle, the rabbi for the Congregation Sons of Abraham of La Crosse, Wis., served as the featured guest speaker and presenter for the event that was organized by the Fort McCoy Equal Opportunity Office.Holocaust remembrance day programs in Jewish communities have stuck to a familiar form for decades, featuring Holocaust survivors sharing their stories followed by the lighting of yahrzeit candles and the recitation of commemorative prayers.īut that model of memorial faces a problem that is growing more pressing each year: the dwindling number of survivors still living and able to share accounts of their painful past. Ana Guzman gives opening remarks during the 2023 Fort McCoy Holocaust Days of Remembrance and Holocaust Remembrance Day observance at chapel building 2672 at Fort McCoy, Wis. (Photo Credit: Scott Sturkol) VIEW ORIGINAL 10 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: Scott Sturkol) VIEW ORIGINAL 9 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: Scott Sturkol) VIEW ORIGINAL 8 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: Scott Sturkol) VIEW ORIGINAL 7 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: Scott Sturkol) VIEW ORIGINAL 6 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: Scott Sturkol) VIEW ORIGINAL 5 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.) In 2023, it was observed from April 16-23. The Days of Remembrance, according to, is observed every year in April and May and is a week-long commemoration of the Holocaust. According to the National Archives at International Holocaust Remembrance Day is an international memorial day designated by the United Nations to mark the anniversary of the January 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau - the largest Nazi concentration and death camp. Serle served as the featured guest speaker and presenter for the event that was organized by the Fort McCoy Equal Opportunity Office. Rabbi Brian Serle, the rabbi for the Congregation Sons of Abraham of La Crosse, Wis., gives his presentation during the 2023 Fort McCoy Holocaust Days of Remembrance and Holocaust Remembrance Day observance at chapel building 2672 at Fort McCoy, Wis. (Photo Credit: Scott Sturkol) VIEW ORIGINAL 4 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: Scott Sturkol) VIEW ORIGINAL 3 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: Scott Sturkol) VIEW ORIGINAL 2 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption –
Rabbi Brian Serle, the rabbi for the Congregation Sons of Abraham of La Crosse, Wis., served as the featured guest speaker and presenter for the event that was organized by the Fort McCoy Equal Opportunity Office. Fort McCoy community members participate in the 2023 Holocaust Days of Remembrance and Holocaust Remembrance Day observance at chapel building 2672 at Fort McCoy, Wis.
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