Temple Emanu-El

Teens volunteering in Yonkers join hands at Holocaust Remembrance Day event, April 7, 2013 (credit: Monica Miller/WCBS 880)

Holocaust Survivors, Families Take Part In Holocaust Remembrance Day Events

New York’s largest commemoration is held at Temple Emanu-El on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The Annual Gathering of Remembrance was started more than 40 years ago by Holocaust survivors.

2013/04/07

Former New York mayor Edw Koch is carried in a casket in front of a ceremonial guard at the end of a funeral service in New York, February 4, 2013. (Photo credit: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)

Ed Koch Remembered As New York City’s ‘Quintessential Mayor’

Mourners applauded and Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” played as Koch’s wooden casket was carried by six uniformed officers from the NYPD and FDNY out of Temple Emanu-El on Monday.

2013/02/04

The casket carrying former Mayor Ed Koch is removed from Temple Emanu-El following the funeral - Feb. 4, 2013 (credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Politicians, Public React To Ed Koch Funeral

Bagpipes played Monday as the casket of late former Mayor Ed Koch was carried out of Temple Emanu-El on the shoulders of NYPD pall-bearers and and was followed by mourners both connected and common.

2013/02/04

FILE - Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Bryan Cave LLP)

Bloomberg, Bill Clinton To Eulogize Former Mayor Ed Koch

Per Koch’s request, three flags will be on display during the service – the American flag, the Israeli flag and the flag of the City of New York. The service will end with the playing of a “hymn-like” slower version of “New York, New York.”

2013/02/03