Description
Recalling all who perished during the Holocaust, this year’s program features an evening of music, candle lighting, and remembrance.
Our speaker will be Cambridge resident Frieda Grayzel. Frieda Tenenbaum Grayzel was born in Poland in 1934 and was five years old when Nazi Germany invaded and occupied her country. Her family fled their hometown for Poland’s capital, but after the bombardment by the German military, they returned home and were interned in the Tomaszow ghetto. The family – with her sister Dorka who was born in Warsaw on September 7, 1939 – were taken to the Bliżyn labor camp, where Frieda’s four-year old sister was taken away and killed. After her father was deported for camps unknown, Frieda and her mother were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Out of more than one million people sent there, she is one of only a few hundred children who survived. Frieda has worked as an arts administrator and as a social worker and psychotherapist, and has also spent years sharing her story to ensure that future generations know the past and understand the dangers that exist today.
Music will be provided by cellist
Cherry Kim, the
Cambridge Community Chorus, the Cambridge Rindge & Latin Chorus and
A Besere Velt: the Yiddish Chorus of Boston Workmen’s Circle.
The program is free, open to all, and wheelchair accessible. It welcomes all communities of Cambridge – including children and adults and people of all faiths and traditions.
Tremont Street Shul (also known as Temple Beth Shalom) is located just off Broadway at 8 Tremont St., between Hampshire St. and Broadway (Tremont St. is one block east of Prospect St., between Central and Inman squares). Limited free parking is available.