Jewish Care message for next generation
OLDER PEOPLE across Jewish Care’s Retirement Living apartments, care homes and community centres, including Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre, will be lighting hundreds of Yellow Candles from Maccabi GB on Yom HaShoah.
Members of Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre, at Jewish Care’s Michael Sobell Jewish Community Centre in Golders Green, will light the Yellow Candles together with staff and volunteers in a special ceremony at the centre. Some of the members will also attend the Remembering Kitchener Camp event at London’s Wigmore Hall and the Yom HaShoah UK ceremony in London.
The only centre designed specifically for Holocaust survivors in the UK, Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre offers a friendly, safe place where Holocaust survivors can meet, socialise and enjoy stimulating, cultural activities as well as build strong friendships with those who understand what they have been through.
Jewish Care supports more than 300 survivors and refugees in care homes, Retirement Living apartments and
community centres and the organisation has developed outreach services across London, including telephone and online befriending and Supportive Communities tea parties. Jewish Care’s specialist Shalvata therapeutic service offers practical and emotional therapeutic support and social work. This enables survivors who wish to do so to share their experiences of the Holocaust with the wider community.
Jewish Care chief executive, Daniel Carmel Brown, says: “If you talk to any of the members at Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre, they will tell you that their greatest concern for the future is people will forget what happened and that history will repeat itself. It is for us, the next generations, to ensure we keep their legacy alive.
“The Yellow Candle Project is a powerful way that we, as a community, can mark the lives of individuals as well as remembering the tragic loss of millions of innocent lives. Planting the sunflower seeds in the candle holders sends a message of hope and renewal to us all for now and for the future.”