May 7 at 7:00 pm. Peoria Riverfront Museum. 222 SW Washington, Peoria, IL Guest speaker: Holocaust Survivor Ida Paluch Kersz Ida was born in Poland in May 1938, months before Germany invaded Poland. In the summer of 1942, with deportation imminent, her family tragically came apart, but Ida was given a new life, her Jewish […]
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Yom HaShoah
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A poet once remarked that the death of a child is the loss of infinite possibilities. What, then, can be said about the more than one-and-a-half million Jewish children who were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust years (1933-1945)? Of course, many more boys and girls suffered unimaginable hardships and bore witness to the […]