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Yom HaShoah

Habonim Dror North America in commemorated Yom
HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a unique
online event. Holocaust survivor Maritza Shelley shared
her story with over 100 movement members, alumni,
friends and family, a story with includes escaping a
death march, obtaining false papers and hitchhiking
back to her home in Budapest, Hungary with a convoy
of German officers.

Habonim Dror UK also held online sessions, with two
short "Ted Talks" commemorating Yom HaShoah. One
on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Jewish resistance
along with forgotten stories of sexual violence in the
Shoah.