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Yom HaShoah remembrance program features local Holocaust survivors

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Stockton/Michael Berenbaum and Rosalie Simon at the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

GALLOWAY TOWNSHOP - The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University will host its annual Yom HaShoah program 7-8 p.m. Monday, April 5 via Zoom.

The program, Unto Every Person There Is A Name - Remembering the 6 Million Jewish Victims of the Holocaust, will feature Holocaust scholar and author Michael Berenbaum, who will interview four area Holocaust survivors:


  • Maud Dahme of Flemington, who was a hidden child with her sister on a farm near Amersfoort, the Netherlands.

  • Betty Grebenschikoff of Ventnor, who was an eyewitness to Kristallnacht in Berlin, Germany. She was able to flee with her family to Shanghai, China.

  • Laura Oberlender of Atlantic City, who was a hidden child on a farm near Tuchin, which is now part of the Ukraine.

  • Rosalie Simon, formerly of Margate, who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau with her sisters.


To access the Zoom link, contact the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University at 609 652-4699.