Since 1989 on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, B’nai B’rith International has been the North American sponsor of Unto Every Person There Is a Name ceremonies. Participants name the victims and where and when they were born and died. These observances, created by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, honor more victims each year, as the project collects more names.
This extremely moving program usually takes place in Atlanta on a Friday close to Yom Hashoah in the rotunda of the Georgia State Capitol Building downtown at 206 Washington Street SW. We had scheduled the program for April 24 this year; however, in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, we shall have to observe this ceremony a little differently, without large gatherings.
During these challenging times this year, the Achim/Gate City Lodge of B’nai B’rith International in partnership with Rabbi Peter Berg of The Temple invite you to join us and mark Holocaust Remembrance Day from your homes. Help us to restore the memory of those murdered during the Holocaust by bringing “Unto Every Person There is a Name” to Atlanta through a Zoom virtual webinar on Tuesday, April 21 from noon to 3:00 PM. We invite attendees to log into the virtual reading of the names by clicking on the Zoom URL – https://zoom.us/j/97535589715. Individuals who wish to participate as readers of the names should contact Harry Lutz, program chair at harry.lutz.45@gmail.com or 678-485- 8179. We will provide lists of names or you may read names of family you have lost.
We will be reading the names of Holocaust victims, as well as their ages and places of death. This program is being conducted by B’nai B’rith lodges nationwide, and its objective is to recognize that there were actually six million individual human lives lost, not just a large block of people.
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