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# Remembering the Holocaust
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/remembering-the-holocaust/
- Published: 2005-11-11T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T08:08:23.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Events, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Westside residents plan to gather this weekend for the anniversary of Kristallnacht, known as the precursor to the Holocaust.

Nearly two dozen Southern California temples will come together on Saturday, Nov. 12, to also celebrate the precious items they hold in common: Each participating synagogue is the caretaker of a Torah scroll that survived Nazi occupation in Czechoslovakia and was rescued after the Holocaust.

Beth Chayim Chadashim (BCC) served as the organizer for the event, having located through the Shoah Visual History Foundation a Holocaust survivor, Mrs. Olga Grilli, from the same hometown as the scroll that has been in their care since 1973\. BCC’s organizing committee discovered a groundswell of support for the event from synagogues with Czech Torahs. Congregations from as far away as Santa Maria will participate.

The event will commemorate the 67th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazis’ infamous “Night of Broken Glass” in 1938 and precursor of the Holocaust, with a rare public screening of “The Power of Good,” an Emmy award-winning HBO documentary about Sir Nicholas Winton, who was responsible for rescuing nearly 700 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on Kindertransports.

Grilli of Poughkeepsie, New York, originally from Chotebor, Czechoslovakia and brought to England by Winton on a Kindertransport at age 11, will be present for the event. BCC’s Torah scroll is from Chotebor.

The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Leo Baeck Temple, 1300 N. Sepulveda in Bel Air, directly across from the entrance to the Getty Center.

For more information, visit www.bcc-la.org, or call (323) 931-7023\. SMC presidential hopefuls meet the public

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 11, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/111105.pdf?ref=smdp.com)