Thursday, May 1, is Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Beth Shalom of Lake Norman is planning a candle-lighting ceremony at 7 p.m. on the Village Green, at Main Street and Concord Road. Survivors will deliver first-hand accounts and student anti-genocide activists will speak as well.

Here’s the planned program, as provided by Sally Phillips, president of Beth Shalom:

• Welcome from Congregation Beth Shalom
• First-hand accounts by survivor Henry Hirschmann and Manfred Katz, a liberator who arrived at Dachau just after it was liberated.
• Student activists from “STAND” (an umbrella organization of more than 600 high school and college chapters dedicated to putting an end to genocide.)
• Candle lighting
• Prayer
• Moment of silence
• Shofar blowing

For more about Beth Shalom of Lake Norman, visit www.bethshalomLKN.org.