This year’s Yom HaShoah service, commemorating the 66 th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the 46 th anniversary of the dedication of the Memorial to the Six Million , will take place on Sunday, April 19 at 1:30 p.m. in the Lewis and Shirley White Theatre at the Jewish Community Campus in Overland Park.

Jackie Hermanson, daughter of Holocaust survivors Esther and Warner Bergh, will chair the program. Rabbi Robert L. Tobin of Congregation Beth Shalom will give the opening remarks . Cantor Sharon Kohn of The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah, will sing El Mole Rachamim . The service will close with remarks and Kaddish recited by Rabbi Alexandria Shuval-Weiner of The Temple, Congregation B'nai Jehudah. This year’s program will feature special readings by grandchildren of Holocaust survivors to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the invasion of Poland and the 65th anniversary of the deportation of Hungarian Jewry.