Annual Holocaust memorial service Sunday
The Jewish Federation of Lee and Charlotte Counties will feature the Annual Holocaust Memorial Service this Sunday, April 18, at 3:30 p.m., at Temple Judea, 14486 A&W Bulb Road, Fort Myers. The program is open to the whole community and free of charge.
Clergy participants in the program include Rabbi Devorah Buchen, Rabbi Jeremy Barras, Pastor Dan Betzer, Bishop Gaspar Anastasi and Pastor Dennis Gingrich.
Fred Gross, author of “One Step Ahead of Hitler: A Jewish Child’s Journey through France,” is the keynote speaker. Gross, a graduate of New York University, was a reporter for the Journal-Courier, a daily newspaper in New Haven, Conn., and was in public relations, specializing in education. He’s been actively involved in the Jewish community in Louisville, Ky. He is a member of the Jewish Community Federation’s Holocaust Memorial Committee, its Committee on Community Relations and has taught a Holocaust curriculum to sixth-grade students at The Temple Sunday school in Louisville. He continues to speak to grade, middle and high school students and to adult groups.
The Jewish Federation of Lee & Charlotte Counties is the central Jewish community-building organization for the two-county area, providing a social service network that helps Jewish people locally, in Israel and around the world. Its purpose is to recognize and address philanthropic, educational, humanitarian and social service needs of the Jewish community and to develop the resources to meet those needs. The Jewish Federation, in partnership with community synagogues and organizations, benefactors and recipients of its services, shapes and guides the building of a caring community.