A Mitzvah Zecher Avot Service (The Good Deed of Remembering Family) will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 6 at the Holocaust Memorial Section at the Rodef Sholom Cemetery in Egg Harbor Township.
This free and open-to-the-public remembrance service is designed for Holocaust survivors and their families who represent the generations born after the Holocaust when World War II ended.
The names of Holocaust survivors will be read at the ceremony. The cemetery is located at 6691 Black Horse Pike in Egg Harbor Township. For questions, or if you are unable to attend in-person, a Zoom link is available by calling 609-652-4699 or emailing Irvin Moreno-Rodriguez, the director of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center, at irvin.moreno-rodriguez@stockton.edu.
