Events
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Yom HaShoah – 17 Aprlil 2023 @ 7pm
Service of Commemoration & Yizkor Canle lighting This year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day Service of Commemoration will take place on 17 April 2023 at 6.45 for 7pm. Cllr Jeremy Amache, Mayor of Wandsworth will open the evening and introduce our speaker for the night, Jacqueline Luck. Jacqueline Luck will tell the story of her grandmother Lela Black.The Wimbledon Synagogue Choir will sing during the ceremony. Please RSVP to office@wimshul.org. The Story of Lela Black 1918-2008 Lela Black née Amiel was born in 1918 in Salonica. When the Germans occupied Greece in 1943, Lela went into hiding. A year later, after being denounced and incarcerated at the Haidari military camp, she was…