Holocaust Remembrance Day: What’s in a name?

AACI stages a tribute to the Righteous Gentiles who saved Jewish lives in Nazi-controlled France.

Charles B. Davies with 11-year-old Yasmin Berg in ‘Remember My Name.’. (photo credit:RAPHAEL POCH)

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There will be a Holocaust Remembrance Day event with a difference at the AACI next week. The program starts, on Wednesday at 7 p.m., with an emotive ceremony that will include readings from Megilat Hashoah, a video presentation of stories by survivors and those who saved them, and the event organizers hope to bring one of the Holocaust survivors to Talpiot to proffer his or her testimony of how they were kept alive by a Righteous Gentile.

The ceremony will be followed by the centerpiece of the proceedings, a performance by the J-Town Playhouse company, of Joanna Halpert Kraus’s play Remember My Name, a story of survival in wartime France. The production is, as the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel’s blurb explains, “a tribute to the Righteous Among Nations.”