Local Holocaust survivors honored at Yom Hashoah ceremony

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff was in metro Atlanta on Sunday to attend a service in honor Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The community came together Sunday morning at Greenwood Cemetery, to remember the millions of Jews massacred during the Holocaust.

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This was the 57th annual community observance of Yom Hashoah.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the gathering the past few years could not be in person.

“I think about all the survivors I knew that lived in this community since I was born here. All the ones that are here, that are not here, and the 6 million. And it’s really heartwarming to see that people still do care,” organizer and Eternal Life-Hemshech president Karen Lansky Edlin said.

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Some restorative work was recently done on the Memorial to the Six Million. The memorial was placed on the national register of historic places in 2008.

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