Nearly 500 Attend Tenth Annual Yom HaShoah
The annual Yom HaShoah Holocaust Day of Remembrance at Cypress College took place earlier this month for the tenth year. Several speakers addressed hundreds in the Campus Theater, relating stories of survival.
Speakers included Eva Schneider, a resident of Fullerton, who discussed the miracles she experienced during the Holocaust, including surviving the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
A Cypress College student presented, in first-person, the story of Leah Bernstein. Bernstein not only survived the Holocaust, but many years later, here in Orange County, experienced the murder of her grandson Blaze by a Neo-Nazi. Bernstein’s story is one of embracing life despite the many challenges she has faced.
A non- Jewish Survivor, Irene Perbal, whose family hid Jews in Amsterdam at the cost of losing her father, shared her story of standing up for others.
Dr. Scott W. Thayer made a special presentation, as well as did a to a soon-to-be 102-year-old Holocaust survivor, Dr. Jacob Eisenbach, who has attended every event from the beginning of the event in 2016.