The B'nai B'rith World Center in Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL-JNF) plan to hold a joint Holocaust commemoration ceremony on Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day on Thursday, April 28, the 19th annual such collaborative event.
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This is the only event of Holocaust Remembrance Day dedicated to commemorating the heroism of Jews who rescued fellow Jews during the Holocaust. This year's ceremony is scheduled take place at the B'nai B'rith Martyr's Forest "Scroll of Fire" Plaza at 10 a.m. Israel time, and will be streamed in Hebrew on the World Center Facebook page and in English on the B'nai B'rith International Facebook page.
The roster of speakers at the ceremony includes: Mr. Sar-Shalom Jerbi, director of the KKL-JNF's Education and Community Division; Dr. Haim V. Katz, Chairman, B'nai B'rith World Center-Jerusalem; Brig. Gen. Kobi Karni, Commander of the Border Guards Combat Training Center; H.E. Hans Docter, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Israel.
The ceremony will see the "Jewish Rescuers Citation" conferred on rescuers who operated in France, Holland, Germany, Slovakia, Lithuania, then-Czechoslovakia, and Denmark.
This year's honorees are: The conferees are: Anna van Dam-Drukker, Hubert Pollack, Sacha Maidenberg, Maurice Maidenberg, Marc Jarblum, Chaviva Raick and Raphael Reisz, Zelda Treger-Nissanilevich, Zvi Hirsch, Jakub Reisz, Dr. Herta Graz, Elhanan Yitzhaki, and Bouli and Shatta Simon.
The citation has recognized over 600 of these heroes since its inception in 2011.
