Chicago friends who observe Yom Hashoah:
Events this week (in Central Time zone times)
Today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yom-hashoah-remembrance-lecture-and-musical-performance-virtual-tickets-1112983205729?aff=erellivmlt 5 pm, Tuesday, online
https://www.youtube.com/live/8YP48V27F7E 12 pm CT, Wednesday, Online
https://chitribe.org/events/words-memory-yom-hashoah-holocaust-memorial-day/ 7 pm, Wednesday, in Hyde Park (Chicago) and online
https://www.ansheemet.org/events/yom-hashoah/ 7 pm, Wednesday in Chicago
https://selfhelphome.org/event/yom-hashoah/ 2 pm, Thursday in Chicago
https://open.aju.edu/event/in-their-parents-words-children-of-survivors-share-their-stories/ 2 pm Thursday (I think it’s online)
https://dehub.depaul.edu/web/rsvp_boot?id=394500 4:30 pm, Thursday in Chicago
https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/events/yom-hashoah-commemoration-80-years-of-remembrance/. 6:30 pm, Thursday, in Skokie
https://mjhnyc.org/events/annual-gathering-of-remembrance/ 1 pm, Sunday Aprill 27 Online (also in person in NYC)
https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20141010-dor-names-list.pdf Not able to attend in person or online? Honor the dead by saying their names. I read one page every year. Just posting this made me cry…
The list is so long. We have a long way to go as a species, but remembrance helps us evolve.