Cherie Rosenstein

Local Holocaust survivor Cherie Rosenstein will share her story of survival, during the Dayton Area Yom Hashoah Observance, on Sunday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Beth Or.

The entire community is welcome to this program — in remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust — which is presented by the Dayton Yom Hashoah Committee.

Rosenstein’s biological parents perished at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In 1947, at the age of 4, she was taken from the orphanage at Ville Juif in Paris to Cincinnati, where she began life with a new set of parents.

Both the orphanage and her placement were projects of the Vaad Hatzalah Rescue Committee, which was established in 1939 by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada to rescue European Jews from the Holocaust.

Rosenstein was the speaker for the Holocaust 2008 program at Clark State Community College and was recently featured in the Holocaust Survivor Cookbook. She and her husband, Stuart, are members of Beth Jacob Synagogue.

During the evening, the student winners of the annual Holocaust Writing Contest and Max May Memorial Holocaust Art Contest will be recognized. Works from the art contest will be on display beginning at 6:30 p.m.

The Yom Hashoah Committee is a joint project of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton and the Holocaust Committee. The chair of the Yom Hashoah Committee is Melinda Doner.