Last month, President Biden proclaimed May as ‘Jewish American Heritage Month’, celebrating the enduring heritage of Jewish Americans, whose values, culture, and contributions have helped to shape our character as a Nation.
Biden highlighted the flight of Jewish refugees to America searching for sanctuary over centuries, while citing the Jewish role in America’s earliest fights for religious freedom, Union soldiers celebrating Passover during the Civil War, Jewish suffragists fighting to expand freedom and justice, and Jewish faith leaders helping amplify and elevate the Civil Rights Movement.
“Jewish Americans continue to enrich every part of American life as educators and entrepreneurs, athletes and artists, scientists and entertainers, public officials and activists, labor and community leaders, diplomats and military service members, public health heroes, and more.”
Poolesville Seniors pays homage to this month celebration with a special speaker who comes to us from the Baltimore Jewish Council’s Holocaust Remembrance Commission. On May 4th at 7:00 p.m. Mr. Hebert Hane will speak to us as a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust in Germany. Before Mr. Hane was born in 1935, his Jewish father had already spent months in a German concentration camp for political prisoners. Mr. Hane was only a small child but remembers the November Pogrom Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass.
Register for the Holocaust Survivor Herbert Hane Zoom event here!
In his proclamation Biden stated, “It is our obligation to ensure that hate can have no safe harbor in America and to protect the sacred ideals enshrined in our Constitution: religious freedom, equality, dignity, and respect. That is the promise of America.”
Please join us for this event … to know history is the only way to avoid its mistakes.