Remembrance day planned at center San Diego will remember the Holocaust victims and survivors — both Jewish and non-Jewish — and the liberators of the death camps in a ceremony on Sunday, April 11 at 1:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center at 4126 Executive Drive. April 11 is the international Holocaust Remembrance Day or Yom HaShoah. “Hopefully, we all will learn from this atrocity,” said Lisa Haney, spokeswoman for the United Jewish Federation of San Diego County. “We learn about tolerance, kindness and love and never forget it. My mother was a refugee from Germany. It’s personally very meaningful for me.” Mayor Jerry Sanders will declare April 11 Holocaust Remembrance and Liberation Day. A short film will screen interviews with three local survivors and military liberators. Two of the survivors will attend the ceremony. “It’s really very educational for younger people to meet some of the survivors,” Haney said. “They read about this in history books and learn about it in films but when they meet people who lived through it, it makes it much more real.” Nine candles will be lit during the ceremony. Twelve San Diego survivors will light the first six candles in pairs to remember the six Nazi concentration camps. The seventh candle will be lit in remembrance of the 1.5 million Jewish children killed during the Holocaust. The eighth candle will commemorate the 5 million non-Jewish people killed in the death camps. University City resident Abraham Horstein, a 92-year-old World War II veteran, will light the ninth candle to honor the liberators of the camps. Skate park meeting slated for April 15 Interested in building a skate park in the village? Opposed? The La Jolla Town Council will host a forum on the issue on Thursday, April 15 at 6 p.m. at the recreation center at 615 Prospect St. For more information call (858) 454-1444 or visit lajollatowncouncil.org. Bird Rock holds weed pulling event Volunteers are needed to pull weeds along the La Jolla bike path from Nautilus Avenue to Bird Rock on Saturday, April 10 at 9 a.m. Meet at the end of Vincente Way in Bird Rock. Bring garbage bags and gloves. For more information, contact the Bird Rock Community Council at [email protected]. LJTC committee plans clean-up event The Nell Carpenter Beautification/Streetscape Committee of the La Jolla Town Council is seeking volunteers to remove litter and debris along La Jolla Boulevard on April 10 from 9 a.m. to noon. Organizers are seeking at least 50 volunteers for the event, which will begin on La Jolla Boulevard south of Pearl Avenue. Snacks, refreshments and lunch will be provided, as will all the tools needed for litter removal. For more information, contact Esther Viti at (619) 742-1371 or e-mail [email protected].