Calendar for the week of April 29, 2011

April 30 - May 1
Irena’s vow by HAFTR
HAFTR HIGH SCHOOL, located at 635 Central Avenue in Cedarhurst, is holding the play Irena’s Vow in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The play is based on the true story of a Polish housekeeper who worked for a German officer while she secretly hid 12 Jewish refugees during the Second World War. The April 30 play begins at 9:30 p.m. and the May 1 play begins at 2 p.m. Tickets are $13 by reservation and $18 at the door. VIP tickets cost $25, with seats in the front rows. For reservations call 516-476-1212.

Memorial Observance of Heroism and Martyrdom
YOUNG ISRAEL OF HILLCREST, located at 169-07 Jewel Avenue in Fresh Meadows, is holding its Memorial Observance for the Six Million Martyrs & Remembrance Day for Jewish Martyrdom and Heroism, with Israeli journalist and author Caroline Glick as the keynote speaker. Slovak-born survivor Eva Lux Braun will speak about her survival in concentration camps. Braun's story was featured on Oprah and WABC and it inspired an illustrated book "The Promise" by Chavi Diamond. The event begins at 9:45 p.m. For more information, call 718-969-2990

May 1
Community-Wide Basketball Tournament
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF SYNAGOGUE YOUTH is holding its 5th annual tournament at Lawrence High School, located at 2 Reilly Road in Cedarhurst. The event features the top 16 teams from the New York Region of NCSY and will be followed by children’s entertainment and a family barbecue. The event begins at 12 p.m. Tickets cost $20 and an be purchased at the door. For more information on the event, contact Carol Rhine at rhinec@ncsy.org.

Bergen-Belsen survivor speaks
YOUNG ISRAEL OF OCEANSIDE, located at 150 Waukena Avenue in Oceanside, will have Chaim Katz, a Hungarian-born child survivor of Bergen-Belsen recount his survival in Hungarian ghettoes and this Nazi death camp, as well as his personal reflections on the Holocaust. Local shoah survivors and their children will light candles as will present a program on Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah, on Sunday, May 1 at 7:30 p.m. For more information, contact Miriam Baum Benkoe at 516-678-1585.

Sobibor uprising survivor speaks
JCC OF WEST HEMPSTEAD, located at 711 Dogwood Avenue in West Hempstead, will host Phillip Bialowitz, one of eight living survivors of the Sobibor death camp, and author of the memoir A Promise at Sobibor, will speak about his participation in the most successful death camp uprising, where approximately 200 inmates escaped, avoiding the fate of some 250,000 people who perished in this camp. The event begins at 7 p.m. For more information, call 516-481-7448.

Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration
CONGREGATION BETH SHOLOM, located at 390 Broadway in Lawrence, will hold its Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration with a keynote speech by author and survivor Fanya Gottsfeld Heller, philanthropist and survivor Roman Kent, and noted attorney Ben Brafman, a grandson of survivors. The event begins at 7 p.m. For more information, call 516-569-3600