Yom HaShoah 2021: A Virtual Commemoration

Watch the live recordings of our virtual commemoration on April 7, 2021, including Community Yizkor Service and Program and A Reading of the Names.

Yom HaShoah Community Yizkor Service and Program

A Reading of the Names

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Thank you to more than 3,000 individuals who came together over three days to learn, remember, and hear survivor testimony. We greatly appreciate Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, our San Francisco congregations, and partner organizations who guided our community in Holocaust remembrance.

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If you would like to make a tribute in memory of a loved one to support Holocaust education please go to https://holocaustcenter.jfcs.org/donate or send a check to JFCS, P.O. Box 159004, SF, CA 94115 or call Lois Wander at 415-449-1264.

The 2021 virtual commemoration of Yom HaShoah in San Francisco is presented by the Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center in partnership with American Jewish Committee, The Brandeis School of San Francisco, Classrooms Without Borders, Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, Facing History & Ourselves, Goethe-Institut San Francisco, HAMAQOM | The Place, Israeli American Council, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Jewish Community High School of the Bay, Jewish Community Library, Jewish Community Relations Council, Jewish Film Institute, Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation, Marin County Office of Education, San Francisco Hillel, San Francisco Interfaith Council, Taube Philanthropies, The University of San Francisco’s Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice, and Yahad In Unum.

Participating clergy from Congregation Adath Israel, Congregation Beth Sholom, Congregation Chevra Thilim, Congregation Emanu-El, Congregation Ner Tamid, Congregation Sherith Israel, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, The Kitchen, Or Shalom Jewish Community, and Sha’ar Zahav.