MARQUETTE — The annual interfaith Holocaust Memorial Service will be held on Yom HaShoah, Tuesday, at 7 p.m.

Temple Beth Sholom and the Marquette Interfaith Forum are organizing and sponsoring the event and it will again be hosted by St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 201 E. Ridge St.

The guest speaker is Martin Lowenberg from the Detroit area. He was born in Germany in 1928 and experienced the onset of Nazi antisemitism starting at age 5. His family eventually had to flee but finally they were all captured by the Nazis. He survived as a slave laborer in the concentration camps but the rest of his family was exterminated. After the war, Lowenberg came to the United States and settled in the Detroit area.

He is a member of the Holocaust Memorial Center of S.E. Michigan speakers’ bureau and has spoken at many venues throughout the Midwest. He has also received the Rotary Distinguished Service Award in December 2017. He established a livelihood as a provider of linens and other dry-good supplies to hospitals and hotels throughout Michigan including the Upper Peninsula, which he visited annually on business and later on visits to speak about the Holocaust. Lowenberg and his wife, Carol, live in Southfield and have an extended family of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Lowenberg also will speak at several schools while in Marquette County.

As in previous years, representatives of Jewish and multiple other faith groups in the area and local choral groups — the Marquette Senior High School Chamber Singers and the Marquette Male Chorus — will participate. A dessert social/reception will take place following the service with an opportunity to meet Lowenberg. The reception will be held in the social hall of Temple Beth Sholom in its new building diagonally across from St. Paul’s –the building formerly known as “the Citadel.”

There is no charge or registration and all are welcome.

For additional information, contact Aaron Scholnik at apsmd@aol.com.