LA JOLLA, California — Marcia Tatz Wollner, the Western Regional Director of March of the Living, urges people to participate in the worldwide “Let There Be Light” project on the evening of Monday, Nov 9, through the early morning hours of Tuesday, Nov. 10. The project commemorates the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, when the Nazi government ordered the destruction of synagogues and Jewish businesses throughout Germany and Austria.
In the annual March of the Living, thousands of participants from 52 different countries mourn together at the Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camps in Poland and later fly to Israel for the celebration of Yom Ha’atzma’ut, Israeli Independence Day. However, the march earlier this year had to be cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Now, the March of the Living organization is asking people and institutions to illuminate their homes and buildings the evening of November 9th as an indication that neither the Jewish people nor the world at large should ever forget the horrible consequences of hate, bigotry, and prejudice.
In the interview above, videoed at the Holocaust Memorial of the Lawrence Family JCC, Wollner tells of Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) and explains how people may participate in the project. More information is available via this link.
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