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The Johannesburg ceremony will take place at the Martyrs’ Monument in the Jewish Section of West Park Cemetery at 12h30.
The guest speaker this year is Hugo Marom, now 86, who was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He and his brother Ruby were amongst the Jewish children saved by Sir Nicolas Winton. He was transported on the Kindertransport to London.
His parents died in a concentration camp. In 1944 Hugo joined the RAF to become a fighter pilot and was then sent back to Prague with his brother to join the Czech Air Force. In 1953 he was asked to form the 110th night fighter squadrons and six years later led the development of Israel Aircraft Industries.
In 1964 he left the army and founded a company for the construction and design of airports, which leads to the present day. In 2011, Marom received the Gratias Agit award for promoting the Czech Republic’s good name abroad. Hugo married Martha, a survivor of 6 concentration camps and had a daughter.
Included in this ceremony, Marsha Schaimberg, a Polish survivor from Auschwitz, living in South Africa will also be relating, her story and of her return to Auschwitz to take part in the 70th anniversary commemorative ceremony on 27 January this year,
Dates and times:
JOHANNESBURG
Thursday, 16 April 2015
12h30
Martys’ Monument, Jewish Section, West Park Cemetery
011 645-2523
PRETORIA
Sunday 19 April 2015
10h00
Rebecca Street Cemetery
012 346-8712
KZN
Sunday19 April 2015
10h00
Durban Jewish Centre
031 335-4452
CAPE TOWN
Thursday, 16 April 2015
12h45
Pinelands Jewish Cemetery No. 2
PORT ELIZABETH
Abraham Levy Centre
16 April 2015 at 19h30
Contact: Michael Simmons, 041 373-7433
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