Yom HaShoah 2016

November 9 - 10

Yom HaShoah Commemoration

Unto Every Person There is a Name

Remembering the 6 Million Jewish Victims of the Shoah

FREE and Open to the Public

Seating is on a first come-first serve basis.

DATE:	Tuesday, May 3, 2016
TIME:	7:00 PM (promptly)
PLACE:	Congregation Beth Judah 700 North Swathmore Avenue Ventnor, New Jersey 08406

The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University is pleased to announce the Yom HaShoah Service for 2016: “Unto Every Person There Is A Name - Remembering the 6 million Jewish Victims of the Holocaust.”

The free and open to the public program is at Beth Judah Congregation, 700 North Swarthmore Avenue, Ventnor, NJ 08406, on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, at 7:00 pm promptly. The program will highlight local Holocaust survivors and will include a memorial service. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis.

The keynote speaker will be Inge Lewkowitz Fixler from Northfield, a Holocaust survivor who was a child during the Holocaust. Inge will share her story of survival as a child during the Holocaust. She was born in a small town in Germany near Dusseldorf.

Photo Credit: Natalie Weiss

Inge Lewkowitz Fixler was born on October 24, 1932, in her grandparents’ home in the small town of Neandertal (Neanderthal), Germany. She lived with her family near Neandertal in the city of Düsseldorf, located on the Rhine River. During the war her mother took Inge and her three siblings from farm to farm, living in lofts above the farm animals. Once when they were traveling by train, a woman sitting next to them said to Inge’s mother that she would take her daughter for the summer. Inge went with the woman never asking why. In the beginning of 1945, Inge went back with her mother and siblings to Neandertal where they lived in a cellar. While the rest had been living on farms, Inge’s father was hiding in Düsseldorf in an underground bunker. After their liberation, soldiers brought her father back to Neandertal. Inge hadn’t seen him in six years. She said as children, they never thought their life was bad. Moving place to place was more like a big game. She says, “What do kids know?” She was more scared after the war every time she heard loud noises.

In 1952, Inge immigrated to the United States and lived with her aunt and uncle who had come before the war and owned a chicken farm in Egg Harbor, New Jersey. In Egg Harbor Inge worked in a factory making uniforms. She met her husband, Abraham, on a blind date in December of 1952. Abraham came from Czechoslovakia, from a family of nine children, of whom only three had survived the war. They married in October 1953. In 1955, one of her brothers immigrated to the U.S. One by one Inge brought the rest of her family to America. Her father came last in 1960. He had emphysema from living underground during World War II and died that same year.

Inge and Abraham raised four daughters: Sylvia, Lori, Helene, and Audrey. Inge went back to work when her children were older, working in a bank for six years. She also worked in a dress shop, Talk of the Walk, on the boardwalk and still works there three or four days a week. Abraham passed away in 1993. Inge has seven grandsons and two granddaughters, two great-grandsons and three great-granddaughters.

Any questions, please contact The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University, 609-652-4699.

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