Community religious leaders, including Sister Rose Thering, Rabbi Jehiel Orenstein, Msgr. Philip Morris, and the Reverend Charles Thompson, under the leadership of Max Randall of the South Mountain Lodge of B’nai B’rith, championed the need for this service to help remember six million Jews among the many more millions who were systematically dehumanized and slaughtered during the Holocaust. Jews, Poles, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, the disabled, Roma (commonly referred to as Gypsies), Slavs, and political dissidents were among the tens of millions who faced the unspeakable consequences of their only crime — to be born who they were, different from the majority.
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