Due to the solemnity of the program, please refrain from applause.

National Anthems
O Canada
Hatikvah

Led by the Yom HaShoah Singers
Eric Wilson, Cello
Erin Marks, Oboe
Wendy Bross Stuart, Piano

Welcome
Hannah Marazzi, Executive Director, Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre

Proclamation
Reading of the Proclamation
Hannah Marazzi, Executive Director, Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre

Introductory Remarks
Rabbi Dan Moskovitz, Senior Rabbi, Temple Sholom

Candle Lighting Ceremony for Holocaust Survivors
Introduction by Rabbi Dan Moskovitz

Theme from Schindler’s List – John Williams
Eric Wilson, Cello
Wendy Bross Stuart, Piano
Yom HaShoah Singers

El Moleh Rachamim — A Memorial Prayer for the Martyrs
Cantor Yaacov Orzech, Second Generation

Musical Program
Katiusha (Words by Mikhail Vasilievich Isakovskii, Music by Matvei Blanter)
Abbygail Sandler, voice
Eric Wilson, Cello
Wendy Bross Stuart, Piano

Yeish Kochavim / There Are Stars (Hebrew text by Hannah Senesh, Music and English text by Jonathan Comisar)
Michael Zoosman, voice
Eric Wilson, Cello
Wendy Bross Stuart, Piano

Shifreles Portret (Text by Mordechai Gebirtig, Music by Simon Sargon)
Cantor Shani Cohen, voice
Wendy Bross Stuart, Piano

Remember (Text and Music by Perry Ehrlich)
Lisa Kesselman, voice, Third Generation
Perry Ehrlich, Piano, Second Generation

Keynote Address
Sophie Turner introduces her grandmother Malka Pischanitskaya

Malka Pischanitskaya, Holocaust Survivor
In conversation with her daughter, Inna Turner, Second Generation

Closing
We Remember Them (Text by Sylvan Kamens and Jack Riemer, Music by Allan Naplan)
Ellie Sherman, voice
Cantor Shani Cohen, voice
Eric Wilson, Cello
Erin Marks, Oboe
Wendy Bross Stuart, Piano

Oseh Shalom (Music by Joan Beckow, edited by Wendy Bross Stuart)
Yom HaShoah Singers
Eric Wilson, Cello
Erin Marks, Oboe
Wendy Bross Stuart, Piano

Zog Nit Keynmol (Text by Hirsch Glik, Music by Dmitri Pokrass)
Yom HaShoah Singers
Wendy Bross Stuart, Piano

Zog Nit Keynmol

(The Partisan Song)

Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letstn veg,
Khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg,
Kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho–
Es vet a poyk ton undzer trot—mir zaynen do!
Kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho–
Es vet a poyk ton undzer trot—mir zaynen do!

Fun grinem palmenland biz vaytn land fun shney,
Mir kumen on mit undzer payn, mit undzer vey,
Un vu gefaln s’iz a shprits fun undzer blut,
Shprotsn vet dort undzer gvure, undzer mut.
Un vu gefaln s’iz a shprits fun undzer blut,
Shprotsn vet dort undzer gvure, undzer mut.

Es vet di morgnzun bagildn undz dem haynt,
Un der nekhtn vet farshvindn mitn faynd,
Nor oyb farzamen vet di zun in dem kayor–
Vi a parol zol geyn dos lid fun dor tsu dor.
Nor oyb farzamen vet di zun in dem kayor–
Vi a parol zol geyn dos lid fun dor tsu dor.

Dos lid geshribn iz mit blut un nit mit blay,
S’iz nit keyn lidl fun a foygl af der fray,
Dos hot a folk tsvishn falndike vent
Dos lid gezungen mit naganes in di hent!
Dos hot a folk tsvishn falndike vent
Dos lid gezungen mit naganes in di hent!

To zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letstn veg,
Khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg,
Kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho—
Es vet a poyk ton undzer trot—mir zaynen do!
Kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho–
Es vet a poyk ton undzer trot—mir zaynen do!

Summary Translation

Never say this is the final road for you, 
Though leadened skies may cover over days of blue.
As the hour that we longed for is so near, 
Our step beats out the message—we are here!

Acknowledgements

Yom HaShoah Singers
Cantor Shani Cohen, Third Generation
Shira Daltrop, Third Generation
Matthew Mintsis, Third Generation
Abbygail Sandler, Third Generation
Ellie Sherman
Lorenze Tasler-Mabe, Third Generation
Cantor Michael Zoosman, Third Generation

Instruments & Music Leadership
Cello – Eric Wilson
Oboe – Erin Marks
Music Director – Cantor Shani Cohen
Associate Music Director, Piano and Arrangement – Wendy Bross Stuart

This program is funded through the community’s generous contributions to the Jewish Federation Annual Campaign and by the Province of British Columbia. It is further supported by the VHEC, the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver and Temple Sholom Synagogue.