The PHA Commemoration will include a procession of local Holocaust survivors, a candle-lighting ceremony to remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, a keynote address by a local dignitary, remarks by a survivor, an invocation by a local rabbi, music, prayers, and the presentation of PHA’s Annual Shofar Zachor Award for outstanding contributions to Holocaust and genocide education. The music will include a work by Gideon Klein, composed just days before his transport from Terezín to Auschwitz.

Prior to the Commemoration, the Phoenix Symphony will perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis at 2:00 pm then followed by the Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration at 5:00 pm.