29-04-2025
City of Youngstown designates week for Holocaust remembrance
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — Dozens of community members gathered in the Mahoning County Courthouse rotunda on Tuesday to commemorate the Holocaust.
This year was the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation's 32nd annual Holocaust Remembrance event.
This year`s theme was 'Auschwitz – A Place On Earth.' Auschwitz-Birkenau, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from May 1940 to January 1945, was the largest of the concentration and extermination camp.
Historians estimate that at least 1.3 million people were deported to the Auschwitz camp, and of these deportees, approximately 1.1 million people — 1 million of whom were Jews — were killed.
Over 150 local students submitted projects based on this theme, and winners were honored at the event, some even getting to read their original poetry to the crowd.
Relatives of Holocaust survivors also lit candles to honor their lives and legacies.
'It's important to get together and to hear from the new generation, the youngest generation, because they're going to be shaping the world,' Rabbi Joseph Schonberger said. 'And so we want to hear from them and be inspired by them, and hopefully we can pass the lessons of history.'
The city of Youngstown also officially designated April 20 through 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Week at the event.
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