The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation will hold its annual Holocaust commemoration programs for Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance) today and Sunday.
Yom Hashoah is an internationally recognized day set aside for remembering all victims of the Holocaust.
The local observance also includes special exhibits at the Jewish Community Center and a screening of the award-winning Holocaust documentary, “Among Neighbors.” Descriptions of programs appear below.
Memorial programs
- Community Holocaust Commemoration. Rotunda, Mahoning County Courthouse, 120 Market St., Youngstown. The annual Community Holocaust Commemoration will include a memorial candle-lighting ceremony to honor the 6 million Jews who died during the Holocaust. The event also recognizes the winners of the JCRC’s student Holocaust writing and multimedia contest. This year’s local theme is “When Time Stood Still: The Fate of Jewish Families and Communities During the Holocaust.” The theme is inspired by the 18-panel exhibit from Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Noon, Tuesday, April 14.
- Annual Shoah Memorial Ceremony. Jewish Community Center of Youngstown, 505 Gypsy Lane, Youngstown. The Shoah Memorial Ceremony will feature the new Honigman Exhibit and a video that tells the life and love story of Frances and Abe Honigman, an enduring bond that survived the Holocaust. 4 p.m., Sunday, April 19.
Holocaust documentary, exhibit
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‘Among Neighbors’ combines realism, evocative hand-drawn animation, revelatory interviews and verité footage. 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 15 at the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown. (Yoav Potash) “Among Neighbors” screening. Multi-Purpose Room, Jewish Community Center of Youngstown, 505 Gypsy Lane, Youngstown. The award-winning 2025 documentary examines the story of a small, rural town where Jewish and Polish Catholics lived side by side for centuries before World War II. The film brings the Polish response to the Holocaust to life through the last living eyewitnesses, revealing both love and betrayal as it zeroes in on one of the last living Holocaust survivors from the town, and an aging eyewitness who saw Jews murdered there – not by Nazis, but by her own Polish neighbors. The film combines realism, evocative hand-drawn animation, revelatory interviews and verité footage. Visit jccyoungstown.org/filmfest to register. 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 15.
- Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Center exhibit. The Thomases Family Endowment of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation Art Gallery, Jewish Community Center, 505 Gypsy Lane, Youngstown. The Holocaust claimed 6 million Jewish lives and destroyed the institutions that anchored Jewish life. The display documents the fate of 15 families and their communities. The exhibit honors their memory by bringing these personal and communal stories to light..
The Holocaust Commemoration and Education Task Force, a committee of the JCRC, is chaired by Rabbi Joseph Schonberger and Rochelle Miller, children of Holocaust survivors, and is comprised of numerous children and grandchildren of survivors and other interested volunteers from the community.
About: The Jewish Community Relations Council represents the Jewish communities of Mahoning and Trumbull counties in Ohio and Mercer and Lawrence counties in Pennsylvania to safeguard the rights of Jews here, in Israel and around the world.
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