Chabad to Host Tribute to Pittsburgh Victims

Chabad of East Hampton will be hosting a community dinner on Saturday night, November 10, 7:30 to pay tribute to the 11 victims of the Tree of Light shooting in Pittsburgh, and to mark the 70 year anniversary of Kristallnacht .

Renowned author and historian, Max Wallace, will tell the story of the unlikely trio who ended the Nazi killing machine in Auschwitz. Author of In the Name of Humanity, Wallace documented many of the interviews in Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation, and heads the Anne and Max Bailey Center for Holocaust studies.

"We are still shocked by the gruesome tragedy in Pittsburgh," says Rabbi Leibel Baumgarten, director of the Chabad Center. "In the face of abhorrent hatred and terrifying darkness, our response must be one of limitless love and lighting candles of light.

"We urge the community to come together in unity to memorialize the holy souls lost, and add warmth and light into the world."

Along with the tribute to the Pittsburgh victims, Max Wallace will address the crowd marking the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. For decades, the story of Heinrich Himmler ordering the destruction of the the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz in November 1944 remained a mystery to historians.

Wallace's reporting has uncovered the remarkable story of which involves a former fascist President of Switzerland, a courageous Orthodox Jewish woman and Himmler's Finnish osteopath.

The Melaveh Malka (A light Saturday Night dinner by which Shabbat is escorted into the week) will take place on November 10, 7:30pm at Chabad of East Hampton, 13 Woods Lane. For more information, reservations, or to arrange a ride, please call 631.329.5800 extension 2.