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Collected Item: “Jewish Melbourne: LaunchPad Yom Hashoah event materials”

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Jewish Melbourne: LaunchPad Yom Hashoah event materials

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There are three documents here: an email invitation, an email thanking people for attending, and a promotional image for the event

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Due to the pandemic, Yom Hashoah commemoration events, which would normally be held in person, needed to go online.

On April 20, 2020, LaunchPad hosted an online, zoom-based, Yom Hashoah event which "consisted of an intergenerational conversation exploring the preservation of memory and the ways in which we can each be custodians of our family's stories."

At the event there were three speakers: Phillip Maisel (Holocaust survivor), Suzy Zail (2nd Gen) and Julia Sussman (3rd Gen), moderated by Jennifer Levitt Maxwell.

The event (which went for 45 minutes) also involved candle lighting. Everyone was encouraged to light a candle at home, and then six people were nominated to light 6 candles for the event, namely: Pauline Rockman OAM - co-president of the Jewish Holocaust Centre, Simone Szalmuk-Singer - co-chair of Australian Jewish Funders, Phil and Sue Lewis and their family - co-chair of the Jewish Holocaust Centres capital campaign, Helen Mahemoff - Board Director of the Jewish Holocaust Centre, Arek dybel - filmmaker and creative director at museum POLIN in Warsaw, and Andrea Lipshutz - representing LaunchPad’s ‘Regeneration Melbourne’ Committee.

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#Holocaust, #Commemoration, #Community, #Melbourne

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Natalie Herscu for LaunchPad

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2020-04-20
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