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The Catholic-Jewish Dialogue

Of Collier County

Presents a Commemoration of the

77th Anniversary of

Kristallnacht

“The Night of Broken Glass”

Sunday, November 8, 2015

2:30 PM

St. William Catholic Church

601 Seagate Drive

Naples, FL 34108

Sponsored by:

Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of Collier County

Jewish Community Relations Council

of the Jewish Federation of Collier County

Diocese of Venice in Florida

Holocaust Museum & Education Center of SW Florida

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RECEPTION

LOCATED IN THE SOCIAL HALL

PLEASE VISIT THE DISPLAY PROVIDED BY THE

HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER

OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA

The Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of Collier County

CELEBRATING 13 YEARS

with the purpose of engaging

Catholics and Jews

in understanding our past history

and advancing the cause of mutual

understanding and appreciation of our

differences, as well as our commonalities

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate

Our Special Thanks for the participation of

BBYO and Barron Collier Choir

St. William Children’s Choir

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Kristallnacht: The Night the Holocaust Began

Kristallnacht – the night of broken glass – the term given to the night of November 9-10, 1938, when the Nazi government sponsored anti-Jewish riots (pogroms) throughout Germany and Austria. It symbolizes the glass from the thousands of Jewish synagogues, homes and businesses that were attacked. Kristallnacht was organized by the Nazi leadership in Berlin to give the appearance of popular rage against Jews after the shooting of a Nazi official by a distraught Jewish boy, Herschel Grynszpan, in Paris. His parents had just been thrown out of Germany and were in a camp in Poland. The head of the German police, Reinhard Heydrich, sent secret instructions to prevent assistance to the victims by the police and firemen. The violence spread. Turning point in the History of the Holocaust: The Nazi regime changed its policies toward the Jewish community of Germany and Austria from legal discrimination and random violence to systematic state terror. • 25,000 Jewish men and boys were arrested and sent to concentration camps and 91

were murdered. • More than 1,000 synagogues were set on fire and 7,000 Jewish businesses were

vandalized. • One billion marks were levied as a fine, not upon the criminals, but upon the victims – the

Jewish community. The Nazis and their supporters developed racial theories to justify their persecution of millions of Jews, Blacks, handicapped Germans, homosexuals, Roma and Sinti, and Slavic people. Millions died. For the Jews of Europe, this culminated in what the Nazis called their “Final Solution” – the Holocaust – the murder of six million defenseless Jews, including men, women and more than one and one half million children. November – A Time of Warning: Prejudice Can Lead to Genocide: Holocaust Survivors, along with Jews and Catholics in Collier County community, join anti-racist groups around the world to remember this day, as a reminder to combat neo-Nazism and bigotry today and to make certain that the rights of all people are protected.

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Kristallnacht Commemoration Service

Prelude: Gary Robertson, Music Director,

St. William Catholic Church

Processional: (EVERYONE PLEASE RISE)

Candle Lighting:

Joshua Bialek President, Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida

Let us now stand and light these six candles in memory of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. As the candles are lit, we commit ourselves to responsibility for one another, to build on this earth a world that has no room for hatred. We light these candles in the hope of reconciliation, justice and peace for all God’s people.

Candle lighters: All survivors

All children of survivors All grandchildren of survivors

A special thank you to the Fuller Funeral Home for donating the six yahrzeit candles that

were used in this ceremony.

Hine Ma Tov:

Jane Galler, Cantorial Soloist, Naples Jewish Congregation BBYO and Barron Collier Choir

Welcome: Rev. George Ratzmann, S.T.L., Ph.D. St. William Catholic Church

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Kristallnacht/Crystal Night

(by Ilse Wolff – Survivor, Author)

Reader: Very Rev. Robert Kantor St. Agnes Catholic Church

“Why ‘Crystal Night’?” they ask. It was named right, for pieces of glass lay upon the grass. They covered the last roses that November day in 1938 as the Nazi hordes ran across the land. Silence descended inside the house as delicate figures trembled out of the cabinet beneath the precious chandelier, now all in jagged pieces. The beasts brandishing their axes turned on the grand piano, shouting “Wir haben das vergessen” — “We forgot this [the piano]” and smashed it into many pieces Did I hear Mozart weeping, while millions stood idly by, paralyzed by what they could not comprehend? Did I hear Mozart weeping, When at age fourteen I took one last look back, And in the eerie mist I saw the House once known as Home Fade into oblivion? The Beast had been unleashed upon the land on Crystal Night.

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GREETINGS on behalf of the Diocese of Venice:

Bishop Frank J. Dewane

INTRODUCTION of Guest Speaker By: Michael Feldman

Guest Speaker:

Martin Goldsmith

presents

“Alex’s Wake, My Family’s Saga”

Martin Goldsmith is an American radio personality and author, best known as a classical music host on National Public Radio and Sirius XM, and for books about his parents' experiences as Jewish musicians in Nazi Germany, “The Inextinguishable Symphony”, “Alex’s Wake” the story of the voyage of the ship St. Louis.

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Responsive Reading:

Two Teen Readers

Reader: Lord, as we gather today, We pray for courage, and for strength. Assembled: When we remember the evils of the past, The innocents tortured, maimed, and murdered,

We are almost afraid to make ourselves remember, But we are even more afraid to forget. Reader: We ask for wisdom, that we might mourn, And not be consumed by hatred, That we might remember And yet not lose hope. Assembled: We must face evil — And, so doing, reaffirm our faith in future good. We cannot erase yesterday’s pains,

But we can vow that they will not have been suffered in vain.

Reader: And so, we pray

For those who were given death, Let us choose life — For us and for generations to come.

Assembled: For those who found courage to stand against evil Often at the cost of their own lives, let us vow to carry on their struggle. Reader: We must teach ourselves, and our children: To learn from hate that we must love, To learn from evil to live for good.

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“I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” St. William Children’s Choir

I’d like to build the world a home And furnish it with love Grow apple trees and honey bees And snow white turtle doves I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing In perfect harmony I’d like to hold it in my arms And keep it company I’d like to see the world for once All standing hand in hand And hear them echo through the hills For peace throughout the land That’s the song I hear Let the world sing today A song of peace That echoes on And never goes away I’d like to teach the world to sing In perfect harmony I’d like to teach the world to sing In perfect harmony I’d like to build the world a home And furnish it with love Grow apple trees and honey bees And snow white turtle doves I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing In perfect harmony I’d like to hold it in my arms And keep it company

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Poem by Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984):

(a prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps)

Reader: Joaquin Giraldo First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-- And there was no one left to speak for me.

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“Inscription of Hope”

Jane Galler, Cantorial Soloist, Naples Jewish Congregation BBYO and Barron Collier Choir

I believe in the sun Even when it is not shining And I believe in love Even when there's no one there And I believe in God Even when he is silent I believe through any trial There is always a way But sometimes in this suffering And hopeless despair My heart cries for shelter To know someone's there But a voice rises within me Saying "hold on, my child I'll give you strength, I'll give you hope Just stay a little while" I believe in the sun Even when it is not shining And I believe in love Even when there's no one there And I believe in God Even when he is silent I believe through any trial There is always a way May there someday be sunshine May there someday be happiness May there someday be love May there someday be peace

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Personal Commitment Against Prejudice:

Readers: Luisa Rodrigues and a Teen Reader Please read with me... I believe in the equality of mankind and in the equal rights of every individual. I believe it is wrong to be prejudiced or cruel, physically or emotionally, to any person or group of people. I will not intimidate, be cruel or act superior to others. I will act to stop prejudice and cruelty every time I am aware that it is happening or is about to happen. I have the courage to take this stand.

(EVERYONE PLEASE RISE)

El Moleh Rachamim:

Hari Jacobsen, Cantorial Soloist Jewish Congregation of Marco Island

El Moleh Rachamim (English Translation):

Rabbi Sylvin Wolf, Naples Jewish Congregation

O God, full of compassion, Eternal Spirit of the universe, grant perfect rest under the wings of your Presence to all the souls of our brothers and sisters and children whose blood was spilt by the murderers in Auschwitz, Belzec, Bergen Belsen, Dachau, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka and other extermination camps in Europe; who were killed, strangled, burned and buried alive for the sanctification for Thy Name. Source of mercy, let them find refuge forever in the shadow of Your wings, and let their souls be bound up in the bond of eternal life. The Eternal God is their inheritance. May thy rest in peace, and let us say: Amen.

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Kaddish (Mourners Prayer):

Marvin Weisberg and Martin Gauthier

Yit-gadal ve-yit-ka-dash shmei rabba May His great Name grow exalted and sanctified, B’alma divra chir’uteh in the world that He created as He willed. v’-yamlich mal-chu-teh be-chayei-chon uve’yomei-chon May He give reign to His kingship in your lifetimes and in your days, uv-chaye di-chol beit Yisrael and in the lifetimes of the entire Family of Israel, ba-a-gala u-vizman kariv v’imru Amen. swiftly and soon. Now say: Amen. Ye-hei shmei ra-ba meva-rach l’olam ul’almei almaya. May His great Name be blessed forever and ever. Yit-borach ve-yish-tabach v’yitpa’ar v’yitroman ve-yitnasei Blessed, praised, glorified, exalted, extolled, ve-yit-hadar ve-yit’haleh ve-yit-halal sh’mei d’kudsha b’rich hu mighty, upraised, and lauded be the Name of the Holy One. Blessed is He. L’eila min kol birchata Ve’shirata beyond any blessing and song, tushb’chata v’nechemata da’amiran b’alma v’imru Amen. praise and consolation that are uttered in the world. Now say: Amen. Ye-hei sh’lama raba min sh’maya May there be abundant peace from Heaven, ve-chayim aleinu v’al kol Yisrael v’imru Amen. and life upon us and upon all Israel. Now say: Amen. Oseh shalom bim'romav hu ya'aseh shalom He Who makes peace in His heights, may He make peace, aleinu v'al kol Yis'ra'eil v'im'ru Amen. upon us and upon all Israel. Now say: Amen.

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“Let There Be Peace on Earth”

St. William Children’s Choir Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me! Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be. With God as our Father, children all are we. Let us walk with each other, in perfect harmony. (All join in)

Let peace begin with me, let this be the moment now. With every step I take, let this be my solemn vow: To take each moment and live each moment, in peace eternally. Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.

Benediction:

Rabbi Ammos Chorny Beth Tikvah of Naples

Song (All):

God Bless America

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UPCOMING EVENTS

“One Book Southwest Florida” – Sunday, December 6th, 2:00 p.m. at St. Peter the Apostle Ministry Center, 5025 Rattlesnake Hammock Rd. “Reader’s Theater” presentation of readings from the book The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal. The book explores the possibilities and limits of forgiveness. Film “The Jewish Cardinal” – Wednesday January 6th, 7:00 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist Ballroom, 625 111th Ave. The story of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew after converting to Catholicism at a young age. “Cardinal LaCroix” (advisor to the pope) – Presentation and Discussion. This event is not yet confirmed. It is dependent on the availability of Cardinal LeCroix. “Walking God's Paths” – Sunday, March 13th, 2:00 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist, 625 111th Ave. Clausen Center – Movie and Discussion. “50th Anniversary of Nostra Aetate” – Sunday, April 17, 2:00 p.m. at St Ann Catholic Church, 475 9th Avenue South – Presentation and Discussion.

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Catholic-Jewish Dialogue Steering Committee

Co-Chairs Martin Gauthier Marvin Weisberg

Members

Robert Brady John T. Conroy, Jr. Ph.D.

Rabbi Ammos Chorny Judith Gauthier

Delores Donnelly Michael Feldman

Lenore Greenstein Josephine Allocca

Very Rev. Robert J. Kantor Ida Margolis

Peter McCabe

Fr. Richard Jones Isabel B. Price, Ph.D.

Myra Shapiro Leslie Wasserman Rabbi Adam Miller

Andy Karpman

Renee Bialek (Federation Staff)

For more information about the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue, please contact:

CJDialogue@naples.net

Martin Gauthier – (239) 370-4277 or Marvin Weisberg – (239) 254-8282

The Jewish Federation office – (239) 263-4205

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HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER

OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA

invites you to visit the Museum located in the Sandalwood Plaza

4760 Tamiami Trail North, Suite #7, Naples, Florida 34103 Phone: (239) 263-9200

www.holocaustmuseumswfl.org

What began as a 7th grade classroom exhibit at Golden Gate Middle school has evolved into the Holocaust Museum and Education Center of Southwest Florida. The Museum’s education programs focus on reaching middle and high school students in Southwest Florida with a message of respect for other people and helping to offset hatred and bigotry. Each school year, over 15,000 students participate in these programs. In the world’s first such activity, the Museum’s World War II Boxcar travels to schools, colleges, and public libraries as a mobile teaching tool. The Museum houses a collection of artifacts, photographs, personal stories, and a member’s lending library. Guided personal and group tours are offered, and there are many volunteer opportunities available The Holocaust Museum & Education Center gratefully acknowledges the initial funding received from the Jewish Federation of Collier County and its continuing support of the Museum and its mission.