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Yom Hashoah 2012 Holocaust Memorial Service
The Yom Hashoah 2012 Holocaust Memorial Service will include a guest speaker and Holocaust survivor, Tibor Klein.
Klein was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1932. His father was taken into the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in 1941. Throughout the war, Tibor remained in the Budapest ghetto with his mother Karolina and his older brother Eugene. He risked his life repeatedly by sneaking out of the ghetto confines to obtain provisions for his family.
His daughter, Charlotte Klein Sasso, is the secretary of the Board of Trustees at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons.
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The evening will also include guest artist Lounah Starr, who was born on Passover 1917 in the Hellenistic town of Bergama in the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) to a family of rabbis, merchants, and magicians, but was raised from the age of 5 in Paris following the destruction of her home city of Smyrna.
She began painting in 1980 at the age of 63 and continues to paint today at 95 with the same energy and vigor as that of her earlier years. Lounahs work has been exhibited in France, Israel, Italy, Monaco, Switzerland, and the United States and is displayed in the permanent collection of the US National Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. She now lives and works at her home in East Hampton.
