Jewish Community of Greater Stowe to mark Holocaust Remembrance, Tuesday, April 22

April 20, 2025 | By Waterbury Roundabout 

The Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, with interfaith partners in Lamoille County, will join together on Tuesday, April 22, at 5:30 p.m., to commemorate Yom HaShoah – the Holocaust Remembrance.

This year’s theme is “The Holocaust is Personal,” and the event will include heroic and uplifting stories from JCOGS members Marcie Scudder and Edee Simon about their respective family histories during the Shoah.

“My mother and her two sisters survived the Holocaust due to the kindness of strangers and miracles of fate. I am here to tell stories so that we may never forget,” Marcie Scudder said.

Edee Simon shares: “I like to think that the fact that my parents have four healthy, happy children, and now two great-grandchildren in Israel, is a symbol of the Jewish people’s triumph over the Nazis…but this triumph came at a terrible cost.” 

Rabbi David Fainsilber will lead the program that includes memorial candle-lighting, powerful storytelling, and readings.

The community is invited to attend at the Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, Cape Cod Road, in Stowe. The event is free; donations appreciated.