Yom HaShoah v'Hagvurah 2025

Young Israel Shomrai Emunah and Kemp Mill Synagogue Present

the 45th annual Yom HaShoah v'Haguvurah Program featuring

Ruth Friedman Cohen

Ruth Cohen was born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, in April 1930. The territory was annexed by Hungary, a Nazi ally, in 1938, and occupied byNazi Germany in March 1944. Ruth and her family were soon sent to Auschwitz. In October 1944, Ruth and her sister, Teresa, were sent to two forced labor camps inside Germany. They were liberated in May 1945. After Ruth's recovery, Ruth, Teresa and their father immigrated to the United States in 1948, and settled in New York City. Ruth met Benjamin Cohen and they married in 1952. They have three children. Today Ruth lives in the Washington, DC area and is a volunteer at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Dvar Torah by Rabbi Dovid Rosenbaum

"Generations" Candle Lighting Ceremony

Sunday, April 27, 2024, at YISE.

Co-sponsored by: Berman Hebrew Academy, Ohr HaTorah, Sulam, Torah School of Greater Washington, Woodside Synagogue, Yeshiva of Greater Washington