Child Holocaust Survivor To Share Story At North Shore Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony

PEABODY, MA — North Shore residents are invited to attend or watch a Salem State University Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies remembrance ceremony on Monday, set to include Janet Singer Applefield, a hidden child survivor of the holocaust.

The ceremony will be held at the Higgins Middle School in Peabody at 7 p.m.

The event is free and open to all, though registration is requested for both the live, in-person event and the Zoom broadcast.

The ceremony will honor victims and survivors of the Holocaust with prayers, music by the Salem State University Community Chorus, and participation from both the Peabody Veterans Council and the 26th Infantry Yankee Division Veterans Association, honoring the 80th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camps in 1945.

Singer Applefield will be joined by her children to discuss her survival story and growing up in the shadow and memory of the Holocaust. Since 1947, being a hidden child during the Holocaust has been central to Singer Applefield's identity.

In 2024, she published her memoir "Becoming Janet: Finding Myself in the Holocaust," which chronicles her experiences surviving the Holocaust hidden in plain sight by a handful of Polish neighbors.

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State University academic center committed to advancing research, education, and public programming in the fields of Holocaust education, comparative genocide, and human rights.

The annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony continues the tradition started more than 35 years ago by the Holocaust Center Boston North and its founders, Holocaust survivor Sonia Schreiber Weitz and Harriet Wacks.

This event is supported by the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston and the North Shore Rabbis and Cantors Association.