Chesapeake Hampton Newport News Norfolk N. Carolina Peninsula Portsmouth Suffolk Va. But more than 50 years later, the villagers' courage in protecting children marked by the Nazis for extermination is being examined and honored during South Hampton Roads' annual Holocaust remembrances. 422 Shirley Ave. in Norfolk. The film will be shown at 1 p.m. at the Naro Expanded Cinema in Norfolk.
Admission is free.
Yom Hashoah is the annual remembrance of the 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust, a Nazi extermination campaign that also slaughtered millions of non-Jews. But Karotkin said Yom Hashoah is about more than mourning those dead. Examining the Holocaust is especially important to show young people not just that ordinary individuals can do extraordinary good, but the awful consequences of prejudice and indifference, Karotkin said. Bikales felt the consequences of Germans' anti-Semiticism during his boyhood in Berlin. The intolerable became inconceivable when Bikales' father, mother and brother were deported to a concentration camp in 1939.