Remembrance, Resilience, and Responsibility: North Peninsula Yom HaShoah 2026
Sunday, April 12, 2026 · 1:30 – 5:00pm · Burlingame, CA
Presented by the JFCS Holocaust Center and the North Peninsula Jewish Collaboration.
Please feel free to participate in all or part of the program. Location will be shared upon registration.
Join us in remembrance.
Join your North Peninsula Jewish Community for a powerful program commemorating Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. We will mourn the millions of lives lost, hear stories from and about survivors, and learn how we can foster resilience and recognize and address antisemitism today.
Program
1:30pm | Names in Memoriam, recorded by community members
2:00 – 2:45pm | Holocaust Commemoration Service
2:45 – 3:15pm | Gather with friends, old and new, over a light reception, and take part in a healing art project.
3:15 – 4:00pm | Learning Sessions: Personal Stories
- Testimony From a Hidden Child—JFCS Holocaust Center Speakers Bureau
- Bay Area Survivor Stories Through Artifacts—JFCS Holocaust Center
- My Story: Growing Up as a Child of a Survivor—facilitated by Rabbi Doron, Peninsula Sinai Congregation
4:15 – 5:00pm | Learning Sessions: Resilience and Solidarity Today
- California’s Approach to Holocaust Education and Addressing Antisemitism—State Senator Josh Becker and the JFCS Holocaust Center
- Lessons of Resilience From the Work of Victor Frankl—Peninsula Multifaith Coalition
- How Antizionism Shaped Antisemitism After the Shoah—Oleg Ivanov, StandWithUs
- The Visual Evolution of Antisemitism: Learning Through Propaganda—facilitated by Wornick Jewish Day School students