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Date: 01/09/2010 Time: 19:30 |
Location: Central Synagogue 36-40 Hallam Street London W1W 6NW |
Central Synagogue invites you to join us on Wednesday 1st September 2010 at 7:30pm in the Wix Hall, Central Synagogue to honour Holocaust Survivor Joseph Levinson from Lithuania, for all his years of work memorialising Lithuanian Jewry.
Joseph Levinson was born in 1917. He served as a serviceman of the 16th Lithuanian Division of the Soviet Army during World War II. On returning in 1945 to Veisiejai, his native village in southern Lithuania, he learned about the 1941 massacre of the town's Jews. Standing at the mass grave in which his father was buried, he vowed to memorialize the victims for future generations. He was only able to keep his promise at the end of the 1980s, with the end of Communist rule.
Travelling the country, Levinson extensively investigated the massacres. He located more than 200 Jewish mass graves and cemeteries in Lithuania for commemoration. He organised and supervised their restoration and maintenance, as well as the erection and documentation of Jewish memorials which led to him writing and publishing his 'Book of Sorrow'.
We will also honour and acknowledge our own Survivors, here in the London area.
The evening will include light refreshments. Although there is no charge for the event, for catering and security purposes, kindly RSVP to Raquel Amit on raquel@centralsynagogue.org.uk or 020 7580 1355. The address of the venue is 36-40 Hallam Street, London W1W 6NW.
Feb. 10th - 11th
18th Shevat
Begins: 16:51
Ends: 17:56
Sedra: Yitro