The Fourth Annual Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration at the Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden on April 7. Traci Weisberg sings the national anthem.
The Fourth Annual Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration at the Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden April 7.   Abe and Marlene Besser, left and center, lit memoiral flames with the assistance of their nephew Harry Scheinfield, at right.

On  April 7, 2013,  the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA) hosted a Yom HaShoah (Day of Holocaust Remembrance) commemoration at the Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden.

The program featured the lighting of the torches; a special musical presentation and a talk by a Holocaust scholar.

Alan Kaplan and son Michael, age 5, listen to the program.

Joe Earle

Joe Earle is Editor-at-Large. He has more than 30-years of experience with daily newspapers, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and was Managing Editor of Reporter Newspapers.