The East End Jewish Community Center will mark a Day of Remembrance on Sunday, April 15 at Temple Israel with speakers and a musical performance honoring victims and survivors of the Holocaust.
The program will feature Stanislao G. Pugliese, Ilana Davidson and a representative of the Diocese of Rockville Center.
Pugliese is a professor of modern European history and the Queensboro Unico Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University who will speak about Italy and the Holocaust.
Davidson is a Grammy-winning cantorial soloist at the North Fork Reform Synagogue. She made her Avery Fisher Hall debut in Carl Orff’s Trionfi di Afrodite with the American Symphony Orchestra. She is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, attended the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons, the Aston Magna Early Music Academy and is co-artistic director/creator of Classical Café. She is a recent winner of the Bronx Council of the Arts Award. She will perform three pieces from her father’s work “I Never Saw Another Butterfly,” Eli, Eli, Hatikva and Ell Maleh Rachamim. “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” is a compilation of children’s drawings and poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942 to 1944.
The representative from the diocese will speak on behalf of the Catholic church.
The event takes place at Temple Israel in Riverhead from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 15.
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