B’nai Tikvah dedicates Holocaust Memorial Courtyard

The clergy and congregants of B’nai Tikvah in Canton formally dedicated its Holocaust Memorial Courtyard at a ceremony on Sunday, September 15. The dedication featured two guest speakers: Dr. Lori Lefkovitz, Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies at Northeastern University, who addressed “The Holocaust Legacy for Next Generations,” and Dr. David Lustbader, a temple member and son of Holocaust survivors, who outlined the resources pertaining to the Holocaust available at B’nai Tikvah, including the Lustbader-Babcock Library and the Izzy Geller Holocaust Education Series. The ceremony also included remarks by Rabbi Leonard Gordon, B’nai Tikvah President Natalie Weinberg, and prayers by Cantor Joshua Grossman.

Designed by a team of congregants, the courtyard offers a stirring visual reminder of the events of the Holocaust through two extraordinary pieces of art: a large mosaic mural by artist David Holleman depicting the entrapment of the Jewish people with an eye to the future and a 5,000-pound granite monument identifying six of Hitler’s concentration camps crowned by an everlasting light. The mosaic, originally installed at Temple Beth Am in Randolph in the early 1970s, was restored to its original beauty with over 750 new tiles. The B’nai Tikvah congregation is honored to create a new home for the mural, conceived to keep the memories of the six million Jews lost in the Holocaust fresh in our minds now and into the future.

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