SYRACUSE -- A crowd gathered at Temple Concord in Syracuse Sunday for Holocaust Remembrance Day.
This day has special meaning for Joseph Elman, who is a Holocaust survivor. He said, "It is a memorial for all those who got killed. I lost my parents and two sisters. It is important, that's why I tell my story."
Monica Dresner Zingaro is also a survivor. She spent years in a Polish ghetto only to escape just before her father was killed. Her mother orchestrated her rescue, but Zingaro was forced to hide the fact she was Jewish until after the war when she was finally reunited with her mother. Zingaro said, "She came back the next day or day after when the Americans went marching through out town and she took me back."
Zingaro recalls the events so clearly, the memory of what she lost in the Holocaust still hurts. "There were times in years past I couldn't attend it was just too much it was too much for me."
The Holocaust survivors say each year this day becomes more important as there are fewer and fewer survivors to share their stories.
