Beth El clergy mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at American Heritage Museum

Cantor Vera Broekhuysen lights memorial candles as Rabbi Josh Breindel and American Heritage Museum Director Hunter Chaney (left) look on.

Rabbi Josh Breindel and Cantor Vera Broekhuysen were featured in media coverage of stories about Holocaust Remembrance Day at the American Heritage Museum in Hudson on January 27. The MetroWest Daily News featured a photo of Cantor Vera lighting candles taken by Beth El member Art Illman, while Spectrum1 News posted this story and video.

The event commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and the debut of a special film shown from inside a restored World War II railcar that was probably used to transport Jews to concentration camps. It’s been on display at the museum for about a year.

“My family is very, very small not because there weren’t a lot of us,” but because so few of us survived the Nazi scourge,” Rabbi Josh said. “This place as a testament to that memory and to their honor. And we here are dedicated ourselves to the truth that the history behind these artifacts must not be repeated.”

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