Sydney
27 April 2003
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising will underscore Holocaust service
A special emphasis on the Warsaw uprising and its implications for Polish
Jews will underscore the theme of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Service
to be conducted by the NSW Council of Christians and Jews in the Crypt
of Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral.
It is the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
The secretary of the council, Sr Marianne Dacy (pictured), says: “We are particularly hopeful that members of the various Christian denominations and the Jewish community will see this as an important occasion to honour the memory of those who perished in Warsaw as well as the millions who died during the period of Nazi persecution.”
The service lights candles for the six million Jews who perished (1933-45) as well as for the righteous Gentiles, whose humanity in aiding persecuted Jews is credited with saving thousands of lives.
The service, to be introduced by Fr Joseph Sobb, will include a poem by Chaim Opperman.
The principal speaker will be Paul O’Shea, senior religious education co-ordinator at St Patrick’s College, Strathfield, and director of the Australian Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Shalom College at the University of NSW.
Mr O’Shea, who has been active in Christian-Jewish dialogue since 1985, is completing his doctoral dissertation on Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust 1917-1945.
The Jewish community’s Days of Shoah (Holocaust) Awareness will begin at 11am on Sunday, April 27 with the Martyrs’ Memorial service at the Holocaust monument in Rookwood Cemetery.