Congregation Shaarey Tikvah 26811 Fairmount Boulevard Beachwood, Ohio 44122 216-765-8300

On November 9, 2008, Congregation Shaarey Tikvah hosted a community wide commemoration of the 70^th anniversary of Kristallnacht. The event was attended by approximately 700 people.

Here are some video clips from the commemoration event.

• Youth Reading Names of Cities and Towns Where Synagogues Were Destroyed on November 9, 1938

• Opening Remarks
  Rabbi Edward Bernstein
  President, Greater Cleveland Board of Rabbis

• Greetings
  Harley I. Gross
  Board Chair, Jewish Community Federation

• Selections from Psalms
  Father Joseph T. Hilinski, Catholic Diocese of Cleveland

• Lighting of Yahrzeit Memorial Candle
  Robert Schubach, Walter Wertheim and Alice Schubach

• December 4, 1938, Letter from David Kleeberg to his son, Siegfried
  Read by Sol Factor

• Introduction of Dr. Beth Ann Griech-Polelle
  Marcy Rosenthal, Kristallnacht Committee Co-Chair

• Lessons from Kristallnacht
  Dr. Beth Ann Griech-Polelle

• Elegy for the Night of Shattered Glass
  • Music and Narrative by Cantor Charles Davidson
  • Performed by Cantor Aaron Shifman, B'nai Jeshurun Congregation, and selected members of the Shaker Heights High School A Capella Choir and the First Baptist Church Choir of Greater Cleveland, under the direction of Dr. Robert Schneider with organist, Betty Meyers
  • Narrator, Rabbi Richard A. Block, Senior Rabbi, The Temple-Tifereth Israel
  • Poet, Elaine Rembrandt
  • Commissioned by Harry J. and Rosalyn Abraham in commemoration of the 50^th anniversary of Kristallnacht

• Selection from Harold Koppel's March 1943 autobiography, written when he was in 11^th grade
  Harold Koppel

• Selection from March 1939 memoir of Dr. Siegfried Koppel, written in London three months after his release from Dachau
  Read by Dr. David Hutt

• Closing Reading
  Reverend Tracey Lind, Trinity Cathedral

• Words of Appreciation
  Louise Freilich, Kristallnacht Committee Co-Chair

• Ani Maamin
  Performed by area Cantors
  Lead by Cantor Gary Paller, Congregation Shaarey Tikvah with accompanist Peter Clausen