Jane Ziegelman, author of Once There Was a Town, joined Heschel for the Holocaust Commemoration Committee’s (HCC) Kristallnacht commemoration to explore the lives and stories preserved in Yizkor books. These memorial volumes document Jewish communities in Eastern and Central Europe destroyed in the Holocaust. The program opened with HCC members sharing how Yizkor books helped them uncover their own family histories. Through slides and readings from her book, Ziegelman brought the voices of lost generations into the room, illuminating the richness of Jewish life before the Holocaust, and the enduring power of remembrance.
