At NYC event ahead of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust survivors and local officials talk about responsibility of memory

(JNS) - Fred Schoenfeld told an audience of several hundred at Temple Emanu-El on New York City's Upper East Side that he stood before them both as a Holocaust survivor and as "someone who carries the memory of many who are no longer here to speak."

"I speak because memory matters," he told the audience on Sunday. "Now that responsibility is shared with you."

Schoenfeld was one of several speakers at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust's annual remembrance event ahead of Yom Hashoah, which begins April 13.

The event drew Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y....