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Jan 2023
Holocaust survivor, 94, welcomes new memorial at Harrogate Synagogue
Harrogate Synagogue has received a new holocaust memorial to display for present and future generations.
The building on St Mary's Walk is one of 150 synagogues, Jewish secondary schools, youth groups and communal organisations in the UK to have been sent legacy boards by the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
The boards, which were distributed as part of Friday's Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, are intended to serve as a continuing reminder of Nazi atrocities.
Arek Hersh, a survivor of the holocaust and a member of Harrogate Synagogue, said:
Shul is the Yiddish term for synagogue.
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The boards are being displayed prominently by each recipient as a visible and continuing symbolic reminder of “our responsibility to pass on this legacy from generation to generation” and to observe Holocaust Memorial Day,
Board of deputies president Marie van der Zyl said:
Photo (from left): deputy for Harrogate Hebrew Congregation Alan Sanders, Arek Hersh with his wife Jean, Roma Cohen (vice president/chair of Harrogate Hebrew Congregation) and Bernard Cohen (president of Harrogate Hebrew Congregation) standing in front of the legacy board at Harrogate Synagogue.
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