Download 77th Anniversary of Kristallnacht

The Catholic-Jewish Dialogue
Of Collier County
Presents a Commemoration of the
77th Anniversary of
Kristallnacht
“The Night of Broken Glass”
Sunday, November 8, 2015
2:30 PM
St. William Catholic Church
601 Seagate Drive
Naples, FL 34108
Sponsored by:
Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of Collier County
Jewish Community Relations Council
of the Jewish Federation of Collier County
Diocese of Venice in Florida
Holocaust Museum & Education Center of SW Florida
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RECEPTION
LOCATED IN THE SOCIAL HALL
PLEASE VISIT THE DISPLAY PROVIDED BY THE
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER
OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
The Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of Collier County
CELEBRATING 13 YEARS
with the purpose of engaging
Catholics and Jews
in understanding our past history
and advancing the cause of mutual
understanding and appreciation of our
differences, as well as our commonalities
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate
Our Special Thanks for the participation of
BBYO and Barron Collier Choir
St. William Children’s Choir
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Kristallnacht: The Night the Holocaust Began
Kristallnacht – the night of broken glass – the term given to the night of November 9-10,
1938, when the Nazi government sponsored anti-Jewish riots (pogroms) throughout
Germany and Austria. It symbolizes the glass from the thousands of Jewish synagogues,
homes and businesses that were attacked.
Kristallnacht was organized by the Nazi leadership in Berlin to give the appearance of
popular rage against Jews after the shooting of a Nazi official by a distraught Jewish boy,
Herschel Grynszpan, in Paris. His parents had just been thrown out of Germany and were in
a camp in Poland. The head of the German police, Reinhard Heydrich, sent secret
instructions to prevent assistance to the victims by the police and firemen. The violence
spread.
Turning point in the History of the Holocaust:
The Nazi regime changed its policies toward the Jewish community of Germany and Austria
from legal discrimination and random violence to systematic state terror.
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25,000 Jewish men and boys were arrested and sent to concentration camps and 91
were murdered.
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More than 1,000 synagogues were set on fire and 7,000 Jewish businesses were
vandalized.
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One billion marks were levied as a fine, not upon the criminals, but upon the victims – the
Jewish community.
The Nazis and their supporters developed racial theories to justify their persecution of
millions of Jews, Blacks, handicapped Germans, homosexuals, Roma and Sinti, and Slavic
people. Millions died. For the Jews of Europe, this culminated in what the Nazis called their
“Final Solution” – the Holocaust – the murder of six million defenseless Jews, including men,
women and more than one and one half million children.
November – A Time of Warning: Prejudice Can Lead to Genocide:
Holocaust Survivors, along with Jews and Catholics in Collier County community, join antiracist groups around the world to remember this day, as a reminder to combat neo-Nazism
and bigotry today and to make certain that the rights of all people are protected.
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Kristallnacht Commemoration Service
Prelude:
Gary Robertson, Music Director,
St. William Catholic Church
Processional: (EVERYONE PLEASE RISE)
Candle Lighting:
Joshua Bialek
President, Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida
Let us now stand and light these six candles in memory of the six million Jews
who died in the Holocaust. As the candles are lit, we commit ourselves to
responsibility for one another, to build on this earth a world that has no room for
hatred. We light these candles in the hope of reconciliation, justice and peace
for all God’s people.
Candle lighters:
All survivors
All children of survivors
All grandchildren of survivors
A special thank you to the Fuller Funeral Home for donating the six yahrzeit candles that
were used in this ceremony.
Hine Ma Tov:
Jane Galler, Cantorial Soloist, Naples Jewish Congregation
BBYO and Barron Collier Choir
Welcome:
Rev. George Ratzmann, S.T.L., Ph.D.
St. William Catholic Church
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Kristallnacht/Crystal Night
(by Ilse Wolff – Survivor, Author)
Reader: Very Rev. Robert Kantor
St. Agnes Catholic Church
“Why ‘Crystal Night’?” they ask.
It was named right,
for pieces of glass lay upon the grass.
They covered the last roses
that November day in 1938
as the Nazi hordes ran across the land.
Silence descended inside the house
as delicate figures trembled out of the cabinet
beneath the precious chandelier,
now all in jagged pieces.
The beasts brandishing their axes
turned on the grand piano,
shouting “Wir haben das vergessen” — “We forgot this [the piano]”
and smashed it into many pieces
Did I hear Mozart weeping,
while millions stood idly by,
paralyzed by what they could not comprehend?
Did I hear Mozart weeping,
When at age fourteen
I took one last look back,
And in the eerie mist I saw the House once known as Home
Fade into oblivion?
The Beast had been unleashed upon the land
on Crystal Night.
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GREETINGS on behalf of the Diocese of Venice:
Bishop Frank J. Dewane
INTRODUCTION of Guest Speaker
By: Michael Feldman
Guest Speaker:
Martin Goldsmith
presents
“Alex’s Wake, My Family’s Saga”
Martin Goldsmith is an American radio personality and author, best known as a
classical music host on National Public Radio and Sirius XM, and for books
about his parents' experiences as Jewish musicians in Nazi Germany, “The
Inextinguishable Symphony”, “Alex’s Wake” the story of the voyage of the ship
St. Louis.
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Responsive Reading:
Two Teen Readers
Reader:
Lord, as we gather today,
We pray for courage, and for strength.
Assembled:
When we remember the evils of the past,
The innocents tortured, maimed, and murdered,
We are almost afraid to make ourselves remember,
But we are even more afraid to forget.
Reader:
We ask for wisdom, that we might mourn,
And not be consumed by hatred,
That we might remember
And yet not lose hope.
Assembled:
We must face evil —
And, so doing, reaffirm our faith in future good.
We cannot erase yesterday’s pains,
But we can vow that they will not have been suffered
in vain.
Reader:
And so, we pray
For those who were given death, Let us choose life —
For us and for generations to come.
Assembled:
For those who found courage to stand against evil
Often at the cost of their own lives,
let us vow to carry on their struggle.
Reader:
We must teach ourselves, and our children:
To learn from hate that we must love,
To learn from evil to live for good.
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“I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing”
St. William Children’s Choir
I’d like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow white turtle doves
I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing
In perfect harmony
I’d like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company
I’d like to see the world for once
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
For peace throughout the land
That’s the song I hear
Let the world sing today
A song of peace
That echoes on
And never goes away
I’d like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I’d like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I’d like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow white turtle doves
I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing
In perfect harmony
I’d like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company
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Poem by Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984):
(a prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public foe of
Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps)
Reader: Joaquin Giraldo
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me-And there was no one left to speak for me.
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“Inscription of Hope”
Jane Galler, Cantorial Soloist, Naples Jewish Congregation
BBYO and Barron Collier Choir
I believe in the sun
Even when it is not shining
And I believe in love
Even when there's no one there
And I believe in God
Even when he is silent
I believe through any trial
There is always a way
But sometimes in this suffering
And hopeless despair
My heart cries for shelter
To know someone's there
But a voice rises within me
Saying "hold on, my child
I'll give you strength, I'll give you hope
Just stay a little while"
I believe in the sun
Even when it is not shining
And I believe in love
Even when there's no one there
And I believe in God
Even when he is silent
I believe through any trial
There is always a way
May there someday be sunshine
May there someday be happiness
May there someday be love
May there someday be peace
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Personal Commitment Against Prejudice:
Readers: Luisa Rodrigues and a Teen Reader
Please read with me...
I believe in the equality of mankind and in the equal rights of every individual.
I believe it is wrong to be prejudiced or cruel, physically or emotionally, to any person
or group of people.
I will not intimidate, be cruel or act superior to others.
I will act to stop prejudice and cruelty every time I am aware that it is happening or is
about to happen.
I have the courage to take this stand.
(EVERYONE PLEASE RISE)
El Moleh Rachamim:
Hari Jacobsen, Cantorial Soloist
Jewish Congregation of Marco Island
El Moleh Rachamim (English Translation):
Rabbi Sylvin Wolf,
Naples Jewish Congregation
O God, full of compassion, Eternal Spirit of the universe,
grant perfect rest under the wings of your Presence
to all the souls of our brothers and sisters and children
whose blood was spilt by the murderers in Auschwitz, Belzec,
Bergen Belsen, Dachau, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka
and other extermination camps in Europe;
who were killed, strangled, burned and buried alive
for the sanctification for Thy Name.
Source of mercy,
let them find refuge forever in the shadow of Your wings,
and let their souls be bound up in the bond of eternal life.
The Eternal God is their inheritance.
May thy rest in peace,
and let us say: Amen.
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Kaddish (Mourners Prayer):
Marvin Weisberg and Martin Gauthier
Yit-gadal ve-yit-ka-dash shmei rabba
May His great Name grow exalted and sanctified,
B’alma divra chir’uteh
in the world that He created as He willed.
v’-yamlich mal-chu-teh be-chayei-chon uve’yomei-chon
May He give reign to His kingship in your lifetimes and in your days,
uv-chaye di-chol beit Yisrael
and in the lifetimes of the entire Family of Israel,
ba-a-gala u-vizman kariv v’imru Amen.
swiftly and soon. Now say: Amen.
Ye-hei shmei ra-ba meva-rach l’olam ul’almei almaya.
May His great Name be blessed forever and ever.
Yit-borach ve-yish-tabach v’yitpa’ar v’yitroman ve-yitnasei
Blessed, praised, glorified, exalted, extolled,
ve-yit-hadar ve-yit’haleh ve-yit-halal sh’mei d’kudsha b’rich hu
mighty, upraised, and lauded be the Name of the Holy One. Blessed is He.
L’eila min kol birchata Ve’shirata
beyond any blessing and song,
tushb’chata v’nechemata da’amiran b’alma v’imru Amen.
praise and consolation that are uttered in the world. Now say: Amen.
Ye-hei sh’lama raba min sh’maya
May there be abundant peace from Heaven,
ve-chayim aleinu v’al kol Yisrael v’imru Amen.
and life upon us and upon all Israel. Now say: Amen.
Oseh shalom bim'romav hu ya'aseh shalom
He Who makes peace in His heights, may He make peace,
aleinu v'al kol Yis'ra'eil v'im'ru Amen.
upon us and upon all Israel. Now say: Amen.
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“Let There Be Peace on Earth”
St. William Children’s Choir
Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me!
Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be.
With God as our Father, children all are we.
Let us walk with each other, in perfect harmony.
(All join in)
Let peace begin with me, let this be the moment now.
With every step I take, let this be my solemn vow:
To take each moment and live each moment, in peace eternally.
Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.
Benediction:
Rabbi Ammos Chorny
Beth Tikvah of Naples
Song (All):
God Bless America
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UPCOMING EVENTS
“One Book Southwest Florida” – Sunday, December 6th, 2:00 p.m. at St.
Peter the Apostle Ministry Center, 5025 Rattlesnake Hammock Rd. “Reader’s
Theater” presentation of readings from the book The Sunflower by Simon
Wiesenthal. The book explores the possibilities and limits of forgiveness.
Film “The Jewish Cardinal” – Wednesday January 6th, 7:00 p.m. at St. John
the Evangelist Ballroom, 625 111th Ave. The story of Cardinal Jean-Marie
Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural
identity as a Jew after converting to Catholicism at a young age.
“Cardinal LaCroix” (advisor to the pope) – Presentation and Discussion. This
event is not yet confirmed. It is dependent on the availability of Cardinal
LeCroix.
“Walking God's Paths” – Sunday, March 13th, 2:00 p.m. at St. John the
Evangelist, 625 111th Ave. Clausen Center – Movie and Discussion.
“50th Anniversary of Nostra Aetate” – Sunday, April 17, 2:00 p.m. at St Ann
Catholic Church, 475 9th Avenue South – Presentation and Discussion.
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Catholic-Jewish Dialogue Steering Committee
Martin Gauthier
Robert Brady
John T. Conroy, Jr. Ph.D.
Rabbi Ammos Chorny
Judith Gauthier
Delores Donnelly
Michael Feldman
Co-Chairs
Marvin Weisberg
Members
Lenore Greenstein
Josephine Allocca
Very Rev. Robert J. Kantor
Ida Margolis
Peter McCabe
Fr. Richard Jones
Isabel B. Price, Ph.D.
Myra Shapiro
Leslie Wasserman
Rabbi Adam Miller
Andy Karpman
Renee Bialek (Federation Staff)
For more information about the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue, please contact:
[email protected]
Martin Gauthier – (239) 370-4277 or Marvin Weisberg – (239) 254-8282
The Jewish Federation office – (239) 263-4205
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HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER
OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
invites you to visit the Museum located in the Sandalwood Plaza
4760 Tamiami Trail North, Suite #7, Naples, Florida 34103
Phone: (239) 263-9200
www.holocaustmuseumswfl.org
What began as a 7th grade classroom exhibit at Golden Gate Middle school has evolved
into the Holocaust Museum and Education Center of Southwest Florida. The Museum’s
education programs focus on reaching middle and high school students in Southwest
Florida with a message of respect for other people and helping to offset hatred and
bigotry. Each school year, over 15,000 students participate in these programs. In the
world’s first such activity, the Museum’s World War II Boxcar travels to schools,
colleges, and public libraries as a mobile teaching tool.
The Museum houses a collection of artifacts, photographs, personal stories, and a
member’s lending library. Guided personal and group tours are offered, and there are
many volunteer opportunities available
The Holocaust Museum & Education Center gratefully acknowledges the initial funding
received from the Jewish Federation of Collier County and its continuing support of the
Museum and its mission.
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