A dramatic narrative, based on the testimony of 20 local men and women who survived the Holocaust. 2019: Stefanie Seltzer, Founder and President of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants of Survivors.  

2018: Robert Max, Survivor.  An American soldier who escaped and survived a Nazi slave labor camp in WWII.
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2017:  Ed Bindell, born in Lwow, Poland in 1938. A hidden child, he survived by living for three years (1941-1944) with a righteous person, Jozia Remus. Jozia was Ed’s nanny before the war. His mother survived by hiding outside Lwow, but his father was murdered. In 1945 his mother remarried creating a family with a new father and sister. They moved to various Displaced Persons camps in Germany as a way to escape the Russians. The family left Germany for the US in 1952. Ed has been coordinating the “Twin with a Survivor “ program since 2005. He feels this is the most rewarding work he hasever done. Ed retired from the business world in 1998 and is currentlyliving in Montclair.

2016: Mother of South Orange resident Sheryl Hoffman, Ilona Medwied, a hidden child survivor and one of those displaced persons, shared her remarkable story of survival and adjustment.
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2015: Marsha Kreuzman, survivor

2014: A dramatic narrative, based on the testimony of 20 local men and women who survived the Holocaust.

2013:  Larry Pantirer, son of the late Murray Pantirer, a Schindler Jew, spoke about his father's experience in and after the Holocaust.

2012:  Ronald Meier; New York Regional Director, Anti-Defamation League

2011:  Harry Ettlinger, member of the 'Monuments Men" tasked with saving Europe's artwork and culture   during World War II and Co-chair of the Raoul Wallengberg Foundation.  Rabbi Jehiel Orenstein received the Sister Rose Award and served as a second speaker at the service.

2010:  Clara Kramer, a survivor who was hidden with 18 others in a pit dug in the basement of a Righteous Christian.

2009:  Norbert Bikales, a survivor sent to France as a child.  Norbert was a Child of Chabannes, one of many children who spent the war in this now famous orphanage.

2008:  Ursala Korn Selig, a survivor who was hidden with her mother by a priest in Italy.

2007:  David Gewirtzman, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, and Jacqueline Murekatere, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide.

2006:  Ursala Pawel, a survivor of Auschwitz.  Her story is told in the book My Child Is Back.

2005: Jaap Penratt, a Dutchman who saved 406 Jewish lives by forging documents for them.  His talk was entitled "Forging Freedom - The 60th Anniversary of Liberation".

2004:  Gina Lanceter, a survivor who was pushed from a train bound for an extermination camp by her parents in order to save her life. Gena survived through the help of a railroad worker, a priest and many Righteous Christians.

2003:  Professor Johannes Morskink, "The Holocaust and Human Rights"

2002:  Sister Rose Thering, co-founder of the annual commemoration, spoke at the 25th Anniversary Service. Jaap Penratt, a Dutchman who saved 406 Jewish lives by forging documents for them.  His talk was entitled "Forging Freedom - The 60th Anniversary of Liberation".

2004:  Gena Lanceter, a survivor who was pushed from a train bound for an extermination camp by her parents in order to save her life. Gena survived through the help of a railroad worker, a priest and many Righteous Christians.

2003:  Professor Johannes Morskink, "The Holocaust and Human Rights"

2002:  Sister Rose Thering, co-founder of the annual commemoration, spoke at the 25th Anniversary Service.