The East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center, will present a Holocaust remembrance 7-8:30 p.m. April 11.
Dr. Paul Winkler, executive director, New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, will offer welcoming remarks. Dr. Michael Kessler, a Holocaust survivor, will follow with the keynote address. Dr. Tamara Freeman, who conceived and executed the country’s first Holocaust music education curriculum for students in kindergartengrade 12, will present a musical interlude. Closing remarks will be by Dr. Jacob Solomon Berger, an author of Holocaust history and translator of Yizkor (memorial) books. A question-and-answer session will follow.
The library will use the occasion to showcase new additions to its Holocaust Memorial Collection, which was established in 1983 with a contribution from the East Brunswick Jewish Center Yad Vashem Committee, chaired by East Brunswick resident Karl Kaplan. The committee recently donated a second book endowment to purchase books for the collection. Dr. Michael Kessler and his wife, Dr. Barbara Reed, have donated a collection of Yizkor books translated from Yiddish and Hebrew by Dr. Solomon. The new books will be dedicated after the program and will be available for checkout.
Admission is free of charge.
For more information, call 732-390- 6781. A limited number of tickets are available at the library circulation desk.