The Temple Israel of Great Neck Shoah Remembrance Committee invites you to a “Shabbat Talk” on Saturday, Feb. 29th, featuring Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso.
During the program, Assemblyman D’Urso will share his family’s heroic and compelling story of sheltering a large Jewish family in Formia, Italy, in 1944, and his recent moving meeting with some of their grateful descendants.
In February 2019, Assemblyman D’Urso had a brief audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican, to tell him about the role his family played during the Holocaust.
As a twenty-one-year-old construction worker with eight years of formal education, Assemblyman D’Urso immigrated to the United States in search of better economic and educational opportunities. He put himself through night school to learn English and later earned a B.S. and Master’s degrees from Pratt Institute.
Assemblyman D’Urso served as assistant commissioner of architecture, engineering and construction for New York City, taught at Bronx Community College and served as a Town of North Hempstead Councilman. Since 2017, he has been serving in the New York Assembly representing District 16.
The “Shabbat Talk” is open to the public and will take place in the Blue Room, beginning at 12:45 p.m.
For additional information, please contact the Temple Israel of Great Neck office at 482-7800. The temple is located at 108 Old Mill Road in Great Neck.
Submitted by Temple Israel of Great Neck
