Holocaust Resource Center Hosts Virtual Mitzvah Zecher Avot Cemetery Service Remembering Those Who Died, Didn't Receive Proper Burial During Holocaust
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A local Jewish community is honoring lives lost during the Holocaust as well as survivors and their families. The Holocaust Resource Center in Galloway hosted a virtual Mitzvah Zecher Avot Cemetery Service Sunday morning.
The custom remembers those who died and weren't able to receive a proper burial.
It usually happens in a cemetery, but had to be done online because of the coronavirus pandemic.
"We are now in the final hours of survivors living among us, and we now are taking up the mantle of remembering the generation that disappeared, that could not have a place," said Rabbi Michael Berebaum American Scholar, Professor.
Jewish communities practice this custom during the week between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
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