Child survivor Linda Ringermacher Fishman will be the featured speaker when the Dayton Yom Hashoah Committee presents the annual Dayton Area Yom Hashoah Observance on Sunday, April 15 at Beth Jacob Congregation at 7:30 p.m. The entire community is welcome to this program in remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust.

Born in Poland, Fishman survived six concentration camps; her parents and six siblings perished in the Holocaust. While in a DP camp, she met and married her husband, Ansel. Along with their first child Anne, they were sponsored by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and sent to Des Moines in 1950 where they opened an upholstery shop. Ansel died in 1970 and Fishman continued to run the business until her recent retirement.

Besides her three children, including Daytonian Anne Baum, Fishman has seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

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.

Israeli children’s art about the Holocaust will also be on display, courtesy of Sinclair Community College, which is exhibiting the works during the month of April.

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.

For more information about the program, e-mail Information@jfgd.net.