Yom HaShoah April 12th at the JCC

Three smiling young women stand together with their arms around each other in what appears to be a classroom or educational space. The woman on the left wears a bright yellow-green hoodie, the woman in the center wears a brown turtleneck sweater, and the woman on the right wears a teal quarter-zip pullover. Colorful educational materials are visible on the wall in the background.

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Edie Pump, a Holocaust survivor and HERC Speakers Bureau speaker, listens attentively as a middle-school-aged student asks her a question during a school visit program at a local synagogue.

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