“Sam, you asked me a question I never thought about before. What if my grandfather was able to bring the violin to Israel? Would this music have this new life, this revival of spirit? Perhaps what seemed like such an injustice back then was a part of the master plan. Maybe the time wasn’t right. This violin, this music was, like Moses I suppose, never intended to enter the land of Israel.”

At a ceremony hosted by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmygal, the Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Andrii Yermak and Ukraine’s Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko honored Ukrainians who saved Jews during the Holocaust and announced that those still alive will receive a lifelong monthly state stipend, in recognition of their heroism.

Nissan is a month of remembrance and observance. On this Wednesday evening, we sit together in sadness and grief as we collectively observe Yom HaZikaron laShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, to recall the genocide of our six million brethren.

Maria Krenz will recount her story of survival this Wednesday, April 7th at 7:00 pm during Boulder’s Yom HaShoah program, presented by Haver, the Rabbinic Council of Boulder, and the Boulder JCC.

University of Colorado Boulder will honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a public lecture by visiting scholar Professor Nils Roemer and the highly acclaimed international exhibit "Lawyers Without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany Under the Third Reich."

On Sunday, April 27, please join local Holocaust survivors, community B'nai Mitzvah students and Haver for a Community-Wide Yom HaShoah Commemoration program of musical remembrance.

Boulder resident, and friend of Gerda, JoAn Segal will stage a dramatic reading of the letters that bound Gerta to her family before they were all killed by the Nazis in 1943.

In honor of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, local author Karen Z. Brass will talk about her new book about her Holocaust survivor father, David Zauder.

Plan ahead: Mountain States ADL will host its 32nd Annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program in April.