Shirat Hayam to host Yom HaShoah service, April 30

Holocaust survivor Laura Oberlender of Atlantic City.

VENTNOR - The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University will sponsor a Yom HaShoah service 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 30 at Shirat Hayam, 700 N. Swarthmore Ave.

This year's service is titled, Unto Every Person There is a Name Remembering the Six Million Jewish Victims of the Holocaust, and will highlight local Holocaust survivors and include a memorial service.

Laura Oberlender, a local Holocaust survivor residing in Atlantic City, will be the program's keynote speaker. Oberlender was six years old living in Tuchin, Poland now the Ukraine during the Holocaust. After the Germans occupied her town her family was sent to the Tuchin Ghetto. They escaped and were hidden by a farmer and his wife on their farm until they were freed in January 1944.

The event is free and open to the public.  Seating will be first come, first serve. For more information, contact the Holocaust Resource Center at 609-652-4699.