The United Nations has designated January 27 – the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945 – as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.   In this service, Teaching a Sorrow to Speak, we will remember that tragic moment in world history, consider its lessons for our times, and celebrate the life story of the late Judith Magyar Isaacson.  Some of you may have read her memoir, Seed of Sarah, in which she recounts her idyllic childhood in Hungary; her coming-of-age as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps (including Auschwitz-Birkenau); and her subsequent marriage to Ike Isaacson, an American intelligence officer who helped rescue her (and who was originally from Maine where she eventually raised her family and served as Dean of Students at Bates College).  Following Dean Isaacson’s inspiring example, the service will emphasize the triumph of the human spirit in response to the inhumanity of Hitler’s regime and its collaborators.

 

 

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