Eternal Life-Hemshech, Inc. was formed on September 3, 1964 by Holocaust survivors who settled in the metropolitan Atlanta area. Their primary goal was to build a monument that would memorialize their six million brethren who were murdered by the Nazis during World War II.

Donations to Hemshech continue to support the maintenance of this memorial and the annual Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) observance for the Atlanta community.

Eternal Life-Hemshech, Inc. is 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.

2023 Yom HaShoah

2022 Yom HaShoah

2021 Yom Hashoah

2021 marked the 56th Annual Community-wide Yom HaShoah Commemoration (Day of the Holocaust Remembrance). Highlights include the story of how the monument came to be and a poignant lighting of the six elegant torches onsite in honor of the six million Jews that were lost. A special in-home candle lighting ceremony spotlights local Holocaust survivors who light candles in memory of their family members. Viewers are invited to join in the Kaddish.

 

Memorial to the Six Million

Eternal Life-Hemshech, Inc. was formed on September 3, 1964 by Holocaust survivors who settled in the metropolitan Atlanta area. Their primary goal was to build a monument that would memorialize their six million brethren who were murdered by the Nazis during World War II.

Because they had no grave sites to visit, the survivors also needed a place to grieve their personal losses and recite the Kaddish (the Jewish memorial prayer) for their loved ones lost in the Holocaust.

They dedicated their monument on April 25, 1965. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 21, 2008.

Community-wide Yom HaShoah Commemoration

Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is held each year, on the 27th day of Nisan. 

In 1964, the survivors of the Shoah (Holocaust) who lived in the Atlanta area organized and constructed The Memorial to the Six Million at Greenwood Cemetery.  They did this to have a place where they could go and recite Kaddish (mourner’s prayer) for members of their families who were murdered during the Holocaust.  The following year, they gathered for the dedication of the memorial and the inaugural community-wide Yom HaShoah commemoration ceremony.

Education

Donations to Eternal Life-Hemshech also enable Holocaust education at schools, universities, synagogues, churches, libraries, museums and other locations across metro Atlanta and Georgia.

It is painful for survivors to recall and share the horrors of Nazi brutalities against them and their families in Europe. Yet Hemshech’s Holocaust survivors endure the agony of their memories to teach and dispel ignorance that might lead history to repeat itself.

Nobel Prize recipient and survivor, Elie Wiesel, has said, “To listen to a witness is to become a witness.”

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