PEABODY, Mass. (AP) - Salem State University is presenting a community Holocaust commemoration this week.
The Yom HaShoah commemoration presented by the college’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is scheduled for Wednesday night at Higgins Middle School in Peabody.
Holocaust survivor Janet Applefield and photographer Richard Wiesel are the keynote speakers at the event.
Applefield was 4 years old when the Nazis invaded her native Poland in 1939. She was sheltered by another family but lost her mother and a sister. She came to the U.S. in 1947.
Wiesel’s Berlin Holocaust Memorial Project includes photographs of victims’ discarded belongings from German concentration and transitional camps.
In addition, children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors will join survivors in a traditional candle-lighting ceremony.
The event is free and open to the public.
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