Holocaust Remembrance Service At Furlong Temple

FURLONG, PA ? Temple Judea of Bucks County will remember the Holocaust with an April 25 Yom HaShoah service and program at 7 p.m. at the synagogue.

Uber Faith clergy and Temple Judea?s choir will participate in the service.

George Marcus, a participant in the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center?s Witness to History Project-Survivor Program, will be the guest speaker.

Marcus was 15-months-old when he came to the United States, but his life has been profoundly impacted by the events of the Holocaust.

He was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1937 and lived in Vettweis. His father and uncle were sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. During the three months his father was missing, Marcus and his mother were sequestered in his grandfather?s home with 22 other men, women, and children.

Marcus, his parents, and his paternal grandmother left Germany in late February 1939 for the U.S. His maternal grandparents remained in Germany to care for an elderly aunt and perished in the Belzec extermination camp in Poland in 1942, as did many other relatives.

Marcus has lived with the specter of the Holocaust through his mother and uncle, who were unable to get their parents out of Germany in time.

The synagogue is located at 38 Rogers Road in Furlong.