[Cz-L] Fwd: Yom Hashoah Observance

Dear Friends:

With his permission, I am forwarding this very moving and important
email from Alfred (Fred) Schneider to the group.

Best always,
Bruce

>From: "ALFRED SCHNEIDER" <fred2_at_worldnet.att.net>
>To: "Reisch, Bruce" <bir1_at_nysaes.cornell.edu>
>Subject: Yom Hashoah Observance
>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:04:26 -0400
>
>Hi,
>
>I was this year's speaker at the Atlanta Yom Hashoah Service of Remembrance.
>I recalled the martyrdom of Rabbi Mark and others, the burning of the
>Temple in Czernowitz, and mentioned Paul Celan, Aharon Appelfeld, and Selma
>Meerbaum Eisinger.
>Links to the speech and to an interview with the Atlanta Jewish Times are:
>
>AJT Article:
>
>http://jtonline.us/main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=58&ArticleID=2751
>
>Yom Hashoah Remarks:
>
>http://www.thebreman.org/education/schneider.pdf
>
>It was exceptionally tragic that almost at the same time I was recalling the
>deaths of so many Jewish scholars the life of a Landsmann, Professor Liviu
>Librescu, was extinguished at Virginia Tech.
>
>Regards,
>
>Alfred (Fred) Schneider
Received on 2007-04-18 16:09:26