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Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz Invites Students In His District To Enter 2015 Holocaust Memorial Creative Arts Contest

Click to enlargeAssemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz is inviting students in grades three through 12, who live or go to school in the 45th Assembly District [http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Steven-Cymbrowitz/map/], to enter his 2015 Holocaust Memorial Creative Arts Contest. With an unprecedented resurgence of anti-Semitic acts raging across

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Holocaust Survivors To Commemorate 70th Anniversary Of D-Day At Memorial Park On Sunday

The following is a flier from the Holocaust Memorial Committee:

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Photos: Kings Bay Y Honors The Memory Of Holocaust Survivors At Annual Event

Kings Bay Y teens light candles in honor of the Holocaust’s victims. (Photo by Erica Sherman)Approximately 100 community leaders, clergy, neighbors and Holocaust survivors gathered on Sunday, April 14, for the Annual Holocaust Commemoration Program held at the Kings Bay YM-YWHA, located at 3495 Nostrand Avenue .The annual

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Sunday: Kings Bay Y Annual Holocaust Commemoration

Hundreds of community leaders, elected officials, clergy and community members will gather on Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. for the Annual Holocaust Commemoration Program to be held at the Kings Bay Y located at 3495 Nostrand Avenue (between Avenue U and Avenue V). The Jewish Community

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Holocaust Memorial Park Ceremony Marks A Grim Anniversary

Photo by Erica ShermanMore than 200 members of Southern Brooklyn’s Russian Jewish community converged upon Holocaust Memorial Park this past weekend to participate in a somber ceremony of remembrance, marking 70 years since the beginning of the mass killings of Jews in the former Soviet Union by the Nazis

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Weiner, Schumer Push To Honor Jewish Chaplains

The three existing monuments on Chaplains Hill (Source: arlingtoncemetery.mil) Here’s an interesting story, not exactly straight out of Brooklyn, but relevant to our area nonetheless. Earlier in the week, the House of Representatives passed legislation sponsored by Congressman Anthony Weiner and Senator Charles Schumer, which will establish a

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25th Annual Holocaust Gathering and Exhibit

(Mark Nussbaum, Grandson of Babi Yar [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar], assisting with lighting of final candle; Photo by Ray Johnson) Despite the chilly breeze and overcast sky, today’s 25th Annual Holocaust Gathering and Exhibit, held at Emmons Avenue & West End Avenue, was well-attended until the