Yom Hashoah: Holocaust Memorial Commemoration -
Sunday, April 11, 2010
"Starting Over and Over: A Dislocated Childhood"
The annual Durham-Chapel Hill Yom HaShoah service and commemoration will take place on Sunday, April 11th, 6:30 pm at Judea Reform Congregation, 1933 W. Cornwallis Rd in Durham. The program is sponsored by the Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation and is open to the public.
The program this year will feature the personal story of James Muller. James Muller was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, where he recalls being harassed in the streets by children in the Hitler Youth. The rise of Nazism began a series of dislocations in the young boy's life, taking him through three languages and countless schools. After his family moved to Frankfurt in 1938, his father was arrested in the middle of the night and taken to Buchenwald. When his father was released about a month later, the family escaped into Switzerland where they spent over two years in limbo, trying to find a country to take them.
The family eventually got a visa for the USA in 1941. James' father, who had been a professor of languages in Germany, became a poultry farmer in southern New Jersey. But he was not able to help James' Uncle Leopold, who could not get out of Germany. In April 1942, Leopold was deported by the Nazis to the Lublin district and there was murdered. James Muller's son, Eric, lives in Chapel Hill with his family.
Music will be provided by the Triangle Jewish Chorale. Local high school students, winners of the Federation-sponsored Holocaust essay contest, will be recognized at the event.
For more information, please contact Sheva Zucker at (919) 286-3628.
"Starting Over and Over: A Dislocated Childhood"
The annual Durham-Chapel Hill Yom HaShoah service and commemoration will take place on Sunday, April 11th, 6:30 pm at Judea Reform Congregation, 1933 W. Cornwallis Rd in Durham. The program is sponsored by the Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation and is open to the public.
The program this year will feature the personal story of James Muller. James Muller was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, where he recalls being harassed in the streets by children in the Hitler Youth. The rise of Nazism began a series of dislocations in the young boy's life, taking him through three languages and countless schools. After his family moved to Frankfurt in 1938, his father was arrested in the middle of the night and taken to Buchenwald. When his father was released about a month later, the family escaped into Switzerland where they spent over two years in limbo, trying to find a country to take them.
The family eventually got a visa for the USA in 1941. James' father, who had been a professor of languages in Germany, became a poultry farmer in southern New Jersey. But he was not able to help James' Uncle Leopold, who could not get out of Germany. In April 1942, Leopold was deported by the Nazis to the Lublin district and there was murdered. James Muller's son, Eric, lives in Chapel Hill with his family.
Music will be provided by the Triangle Jewish Chorale. Local high school students, winners of the Federation-sponsored Holocaust essay contest, will be recognized at the event.
For more information, please contact Sheva Zucker at (919) 286-3628.