Holocaust Day of Remembrance

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Past Event ....... April 12^th — 12:00 noon

Lewiston Mayor Robert E. Macdonald will be hosting a local Holocaust Day of Remembrance program in LPL’s Callahan Hall on Friday, April 12 at 12 noon. The featured speaker at this free, public, brown-bag lunch program will be Max Slabotsky, a Holocaust survivor now working in Portland.

Slabotsky was born in Belgium in 1931. He learned the art of tailoring at his father’s knees and is now a master tailor working in Portland, Maine. In 1943, Slabotsky was arrested, along with his parents, and sent to Auschwitz where he was put to work for the Germans, first on a farm and then cleaning pipes and sorting clothes. He was liberated by the Russians, and his mother, who had been used by the Nazis in medical experiments, survived for a short time after liberation. After the war, Slabotsky became a paratrooper and lived on a kibbutz in Israel before coming to the USA in 1955.

Also at the April 12^th event, local Rabbi Hillel Katzir of Temple Shalom will give an event blessing, and a brief remembrance video clip from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, “Never Again . . . Heeding the Warning Signs,” will be shown. In addition, a time of questions and answers will enable attendees to interact with the guest speaker.

For more information on this special event, contact Dottie Perham-Whittier, the City of Lewiston’s Community Relations Coordinator at 513-3000, ext. 3205 or via email at Dottie@LewistonMaine.gov

Posted: Friday, March 22nd, 2013 in Community Meeting, Lecture