Jewish community commemorates Yom HaShoah on Sunday

SYDNEY, N.S. — Join the Cape Breton Jewish community for their annual Yom HaShoah ceremony at the Temple Sons of Israel Synagogue in Sydney on Sunday at 2 p.m. Yom HaShoah is a day which commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, emphasizing the suffering inflicted on millions of European Jews by the Nazis. The program includes a candlelighting ceremony with candles lit by members of the Cape Breton Regional Police Service and a talk by Allen Rosenfeld, author of “Holocaust Lumber” and the son of two Holocaust survivors.

Rosenfeld grew up in Toronto and graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1984 and McMaster Family Medicine in 1986. He obtained his Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety from McMaster University in 1993 and his fellowship with the Canadian Board of Occupational Medicine in 2007. He continues to provide occupational medicine consultation to several large employers in the Greater Toronto Area and is an active family physician in West Mississauga. Rosenfeld had always had a passion for writing and selfpublished his first full-length book “Holocaust Lumber,” which tells the story of his teenage and early adult years working on the family lumber yard. The book was nominated for the Mississauga Cultural Heritage Awards in 2017, and was entered into the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.