*****5th Anniversary Special Edition*****
Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
October 2007
gsi@genshoah.org
www.genshoah.org
Dear Members and Friends,
This month marks our 5th Anniversary. What started in 2002 as a group of 9 people in 7 cities has blossomed into an intergenerational, international phenomenon. See Reflecting on the First Five Years of GSI below and take a look at our very first newsletter (November 2002) to see how much we have grown over the years: www.genshoah.org/newsletter2007/gsi1102.html
We appreciate all the help and support we have received from our brothers and sisters in the survivor community. We are working together to share information and resources so all of us, no matter where we live, can be connected and help each other. The Coordinating Council of GSI wants you to know we do not take your support for granted and we welcome your input. Thank you to all the individuals, groups and institutions who generously share their information each month.
In association with the Celebration of the Generations, GSI will hold its first West Coast Conference December 14 – 16 at the Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, NV. See below for details.
Also, there is a special letter from Bad Arolsen addressed to the survivor community below.
Membership in our interactive leadership listserv is open to leaders / representatives of landsmanschaft groups. If your local survivor, second generation or third generation group has not yet delegated a representative to join the GSI interactive online discussion / listserv group, please join us now. We already have dozens of members from all around the US and other countries. This interactive listserv is the fastest way to reach the survivor community should issues / concerns arise: GSI@genshoah.org.
Remember that Kristallnacht is coming.
For event submissions: www.genshoah.org/contact_gsi.html. Please fill out the information requested in the text areas and submit it to us at gsi@genshoah.org. Remember not to wait until the last minute to submit your information. Send us your information at least a week before we distribute your newsletters.
Visit our GSI website at www.genshoah.org for updated information on new books, films, helpful links to Holocaust-related organizations and institutions, etc. Survivors, their children and grandchildren are welcome to post contact information for their local groups on our website.
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Reflecting on the First Five Years of GSI
Generations of the Shoah International (GSI) was founded in 2002 by leaders of established second-generation groups in seven cities. There were nine founding members. Our first newsletter was distributed in October 2002. TodayGSI reaches tens of thousands of members worldwide. In addition to connecting survivors, their children and grandchildren, GSI serves as a bridge between the survivor community and the major Holocaust organizations and institutions around the globe.
Individuals from survivor families are welcome to join, and their ideas and suggestions are encouraged. All members of survivor families may enjoy membership in GSI.
GSI is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that solicits no dues and takes no money from any organization or institution. We are completely freestanding, independent, and feel strongly that any money that might go to help survivors should go directly to them.
To facilitate communication between leaders of the survivor community, GSI developed an interactive, intergenerational listserv that connects leaders of survivor, second and third generation groups around the U.S. and in Canada and England. There is no faster way to reach the leadership of the survivor community in the English-speaking world.
GSI - New Jersey held the very first second generation conference in cooperation with a state Holocaust commission in September 2006. There were writing workshops, a speaker-training workshop, a discussion of artistic methods to convey the legacy of the Holocaust, and other topics. GSI has held speaker training workshops in Denver, Washington DC, Baltimore, Detroit and other workshops are scheduled in additional cities in the coming year. These workshops are designed to help children and grandchildren of survivors prepare for the day when it will be our responsibility to carry on the legacy of the Holocaust by speaking in schools, churches, etc.
GSI has encouraged grass roots efforts by taking positive action to try to help the survivor community. We have written to the embassies of the countries that are signatories to the Bad Arolsen Treaty, and impressed upon them the need to immediately ratify the Treaty to expeditiously release the Holocaust archive. We have contacted members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to make them aware of various survivor issues. We are helping our parents by speaking up on their behalf. Because we have a great number of members in many states and countries, GSI has become a positive and influential voice for the survivor community, and we are being heard.
As we mark our 5th anniversary we reflect back on how far we have come, and we stand on the threshold of what we may yet accomplish together.
Thank you for all your support.
“Letter from Arolsen”
In the name of the International Tracing Service (ITS), I express our best wishes on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Generations of the Shoah International (GSI). May all your endeavours be successful and healing.
When I joined the ITS nine months ago, it was obvious to me that the first priority of this institution was to make optimal use of the information contained in the archives: Working off an inexcusably large backlog of requests, answering enquiries in a timely and humane fashion and sharing the data with individuals and institutions which need it for their work in the areas of research and remembrance.
But with time, it is becoming ever more evident to me that we have another great responsibility, which is the preservation of the documents that are in the archives at Arolsen. This is not only the case because of their historical meaning, but also because of their historic character. When I move through the archives filled with documents and files and when I look through any of them, I realize that because of the horrendous environment in which they had been created they contain important information. On first sight, this information may look either cruel or innocuous. In reality, most of it is of a very personal character: The name of a child, the signature of an adult, a photograph of a woman, perhaps. Signs of the existence of human beings who had loved and been loved, and who had been part of a family and the members of a community. Thus I ask myself time and again, what is the importance of these traces to the victims and to their children? And, to whom do they truly belong?
But with time, it is becoming ever more evident to me that we have another great responsibility, which is the preservation of the documents that are in the archives at Arolsen. This is not only the case because of their historical meaning, but also because of their historic character. When I move through the archives filled with documents and files and when I look through any of them, I realize that because of the horrendous environment in which they had been created they contain important information. On first sight, this information may look either cruel or innocuous. In reality, most of it is of a very personal character: The name of a child, the signature of an adult, a photograph of a woman, perhaps. Signs of the existence of human beings who had loved and been loved, and who had been part of a family and the members of a community. Thus I ask myself time and again, what is the importance of these traces to the victims and to their children? And, to whom do they truly belong?
It will be a pleasure to share more, factual information about the ITS, at a later time. I remain, with best regards,
Reto Meister, Director
International Tracing Service
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Italy has ratified the treaty to release the Bad Arolsen Holocaust archive
France and Greece are the two countries that have not yet ratified. Go to www.genshoah.org/fr-to-etf092607.pdf to read the letter from the French Embassy to Esther Finder. Thank you to those who wrote letters to help move these proceedings along. We shall keep on this….
Yad Vashem to Receive Illustrious Award
Yad Vashem is proud to announce that it has been awarded the prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize for Concord, international recognition that highlights the importance of Holocaust commemoration. This year over 47 candidates from 28 different countries contended for the award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in the areas of “mutual understanding and peaceful coexistence amongst men, to the struggle against injustice or ignorance, to the defense of freedom, or whose work has widened the horizons of knowledge or has been outstanding in protecting and preserving mankind’s heritage.” Often referred to as the “Spanish Nobel Prize,” Prince of Asturias Prize for Concord awards are conferred yearly in eight different categories including the arts, social sciences, scientific and technical research and concord. Previous recipients in the category of concord have included UNICEF, Doctors without Borders/Médecins sans Frontières, H.M. Hussein I, King of Jordan, Stephen Hawking and J.K. Rowling. Yad Vashem will formally receive the prize in the presence of the Spanish royal family, in Oviedo, Spain at the end of October.
Also from Yad Vashem:
Names Recovery Project
Yad Vashem Shoah Victims' Names Recovery staff will be on site at the upcoming WFJCSH conference in November in Jerusalem to provide assistance with searching the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names and with completing Pages of Testimony for victims who perished.
Register to activate your membership for our new forum for global volunteers, which is a venue for networking, exchanging ideas, experiences and tips for successful names collection.
Remember to include Pages of Testimony and posters at scheduled events commemorating Kristallnacht. To order free posters or promotional CD please write to names.outreach@yadvashem.org.il with the subject header “order materials.”
Aids for the Visually Impaired
The Reading room, which serves researchers, students and the general public, was recently the recipient of a donation of new visual aids which will allow visitors with impaired vision to more easily read archival material and ensure that the materials are as accessible as possible to the reading public.
Foehrenwald Displaced Person Camp Reunion, Spring 2008
Between 1945 and 1957 tens of thousands of survivors, mainly from Eastern Europe, lived and worked for some period in the displaced person camp Foehrenwald (or Yiddish "Ferenwald) south of Munich. Now, 50 years after the displaced person camp was closed, a group of Munich-based former residents are planning a reunion of former "Foehrenwalders" to be held in Munich and Foehrenwald in spring 2008. The date of the reunion is not yet fixed but the organizers ask those who are interested to e-mail: literaturhandlung@t-online.de
Congratulations to AMCHA on its 20th anniversary
AMCHA is the National Israeli Center for Psychosocial Support of Survivors of the Holocaust and the Second Generation. Since 1987 they have worked hard to make the last years of the lives of vulnerable Holocaust survivors a little easier. For information about the special anniversary program see Upcoming Events for the October 16th date.
International Tracing Service Update from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has received its first shipment of twenty million documents from the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany. However, these documents cannot be made available to the public until the last three (Greece, Italy, and France) of the eleven countries that control the ITS approve the treaty to release the documents. These documents, which were never intended for public release and use due to privacy concerns, have been scanned on a program not normally used in Information Technology and the Museum received sample software in mid September to start familiarizing itself with this system. Also, the Central Index File that is the key to linking victims and these twenty million documents is not scheduled to arrive until the first two weeks in October.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has received its first shipment of twenty million documents from the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany. However, these documents cannot be made available to the public until the last three (Greece, Italy, and France) of the eleven countries that control the ITS approve the treaty to release the documents. These documents, which were never intended for public release and use due to privacy concerns, have been scanned on a program not normally used in Information Technology and the Museum received sample software in mid September to start familiarizing itself with this system. Also, the Central Index File that is the key to linking victims and these twenty million documents is not scheduled to arrive until the first two weeks in October.
Though not yet available to the public, the Museum will be learning and training with these materials so that it will be ready when the final go ahead is given. Because of technical and political considerations, ITS documents will only be available for examining on special computers located inside the Museum. Volunteer positions will be announced by the Office of Volunteers and Interns as they become available. Please visit the Museum’s website at www.ushmm.org for more information.
Meanwhile, the Survivors’ Registry of the Museum, which will be in charge of the ITS documents, has immediate openings for any volunteers willing to do data base entry work on the thirty million documents that the Museum has had in its collection, pre-ITS. Volunteers can work on this material, on or off site. All of this material, ITS and non-ITS, allow the Museum to track much more easily the fate of Holocaust victims; once the material has been entered in a database. If you would like to volunteer to assist in this work, please go to the Museum’s web page, click on Volunteers and Interns and fill out the volunteer form. Please indicate on the form that you are interested in working for the Survivors’ Registry. As the ITS project continues to unfold, we will keep you updated on potential volunteer opportunities. For additional information, you can call Larry Garfinkel at 202-488-6145 or email him at lgarfinkel@ushmm.org.
Spielberg Jewish Film Archive's virtual film project, located at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is now complete and online. About 400 films, that depict the history of the Jewish people during the period before the Holocaust, were uploaded. All the films can be viewed, for free, at http://w3.castup.net/spielberg/. The full story of this project is on page http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/888015.html.
- Global Conference on the Prevention of Genocide
- McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- October 11 – 13, 2007
- Starting on October 7th, 35 young human rights leaders from around the world will participate in the pre-conference Forum for Young Leaders, http://efchr.mcgill.ca/InternationalYoungLeaders.php which will explore the unique contribution of students, civil society leaders and human rights activists to the prevention of genocide.
In conjunction with the conference, a number of public exhibitions will feature photographs, films, art, artifacts and multimedia providing personal accounts of the nightmare of genocide.
http://efchr.mcgill.ca/index.php or pascal.zamprelli@mcgill.ca
- Memory and Memorializations: What, Why, and How Do We Remember?
Lessons from the Holocaust - College of St. Elizabeth (CSE) Holocaust Education Resource Center
- 2 Convent Road, Morristown, NJ
- November 5, 2007 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
- This conference is the opening program of CSE's 18th (Chai) Annual week of Holocaust Remembrance. Keynote speakers include Dr. John K. Roth, Dr. James E. Young, and Dr. Michael Berenbaum. For complete program and more information: www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter
- World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust
- 19th Annual International Conference
- TOGETHER IN ISRAEL
- Jerusalem, Israel
- November 5 - 8, 2007
- Click here for a printable flyer
- CLICK HERE FOR YOUR REGISTRATION PACKET
- Add-on Tours being planned. Second and Third Generation are encouraged to attend. For more conference information: www.wfjcsh.org or holocaustchild@comcast.net. Note: Yad Vashem Shoah Victims' Names Recovery staff will be on site to provide assistance with searching the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names and with completing Pages of Testimony for victims who perished.
- CLICK HERE FOR YOUR REGISTRATION PACKET
- Middle Tennessee State University Holocaust Studies Conference
- November 8-10, 2007
- Murfreesboro, TN
- www.mtsu.edu/~holostu
- Transcending Trauma Conference
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest and Jewish Family Service of MetroWest
- November 18, 2007 - Save the Date
- Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus
Whippany, NJ - Speakers include Sophie Freud, Professor Emeritus of Social Work at Simmons College and granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, and Dina Wardi, Israeli psychotherapist noted for her work with Holocaust survivors and their children. For more email holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or call 973-929-3194.
- International Conference of Holocaust Museum Educators
- March 2-6, 2008
- Holocaust Museum Houston
- (Co-Sponsored by the Association of Holocaust Organizations)
- For further information contact: Dr. Mary Lee Webeck mwebeck@hmh.org
- Taking Responsibility
International Conference of 2G and 3G - Jerusalem, Israel
- June 16 – 20, 2008
- This conference is being organized with the support of Yad Vashem. Details will be published soon: www1.yadvashem.org/heb_site/heb_remembrance/dor/home_dor.html
- Teaching Contemporary Genocides and the Holocaust:
- An Examination of Moral Behavior
- George P. Luciano Center for Public Service and Leadership
- Cumberland County College, Vineland, NJ
- October 11, 2007 (3:30 registration) 4:00 – 8:00 p.m.
- For Elementary, Secondary and College Level Educators and the Community. Light dinner included. No fees. Four (4) professional development hours. For more: halloflame@comcast.net
- Holocaust Workshop for Teachers
- CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center
- Terre Haute, IN
- October 19, 2007
- One-day workshop for teachers in Indiana. Interested teachers must send an e-mail to Kiel Majewski Kiel@candlesmuseum.org or Eva Kor at evakor@abcs.com to reserve a place.
- Holocaust Workshop for Teachers
- CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center
- Terre Haute, IN
- October 19, 2007
- One-day workshop for teachers in Indiana. Interested teachers must send an e-mail to Kiel Majewski Kiel@candlesmuseum.org or Eva Kor at evakor@abcs.com to reserve a place.
- Building a Foundation
- Education Information Resource Center
- 600 Delsea Drive, Sewell, NJ
- October 24, 2007 8:30 am - 2:30 pm
- For 5th-12th grade teachers to learn specific techniques about instructional and resource materials that deal with the Holocaust, other genocides, and prejudice, bias and bigotry. Keynote speaker: Dr. Paul Winkler, Executive Director, NJ Commission on Holocaust Education. 5 professional development hours. Free. www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/102407foundation.pdf
- Impact of Earlier Trauma
Working with Survivors of the Holocaust
and Elderly Survivors of Other Trauma - Wednesday, October 31, 2007 from 2:30 – 5:00 p.m. OR
- Thursday, November 1, 2007 from 9:00 – 11:30 a.m.
- Jewish Home and Care Center
- 1414 N. Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, WI
- Education sessions for healthcare professionals, social workers, caregivers and other professionals working with elderly individuals: Sessions will provide healthcare professionals, social workers and caregivers with a better understanding about aging survivors of trauma. This insight will make them more effective helping to manage the individual’s stress and reducing difficulties in providing care. RSVP to joyceg@milwaukeejewish.org
- Learning Through Experience: Second Generation, Accepting the Legacy
- The Theatre at Raritan Valley Community College
- Somerville, NJ
- November 5, 2007 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
- For high school students and educators. Keynote speakers Margit Feldman, Holocaust Survivor and Author and Jerry Fowler, Staff Director of the Committee on Conscience, USHMM. www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/110507legacy.pdf
- Music and Teaching The Holocaust and Academics
- Jewish Community Center on the Palisades
- 411 E. Clinton Avenue
- Tenafly, NJ 07670
- November 15, 2007 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- No Fee. 5 Continuing Credit Hours. E-mail – holocaus@doe.state.nj.us (Please specify name of workshop)
- Celebration of the Generations
A weekend gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their families - December 14, 15, and 16, 2007
- Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
- www.celebrationofthegenerations.com
- Save the Date
- GSI’s West Coast Conference-Within-a-Conference
- In association with the Celebration of the Generations, GSI will hold it’s first ever West Coast Conference. We will share Shabbat dinner with the survivors, hold various workshops specifically for the Second and Third Generation, and network throughout the weekend. For more information contact Klara Firestone: kfire413@aol.com or visit www.celebrationofthegenerations.com
- Jewish Educators Seminar ‘Learning to make a difference’
Teaching the Shoah, Antisemitism and Contemporary Israel - WINTER: December 21, 2001 - January 6, 2008
- International School for Holocaust Studies - Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- This seminar in English is intended for educators working in Jewish day schools. Featuring lecturers from Yad Vashem and other leading academic institutions, the program strives to enhance the participants’ knowledge of European Jewry before the war and deal with interdisciplinary educational approaches and methodology. Click here for more information and to register
- November 5, 2007, 7:30 pm – Annunciation Center, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
- 18th Annual (Chai) Kristallnacht Commemoration featuring Stuart Rabner, Chief Justice NJ Supreme Court, keynote address, Absence of Presence - Presence of Absence by Dr. Michael Berenbaum, and music by HaZamir Choir of NJ. For more information: www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter
- November 8, 2007, 6:30 p.m. – Milwaukee Jewish Federation, North Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, WI
- Kristallnacht Commemoration: outdoor candle lighting ceremony (weather permitting) followed by indoor program in the Milwaukee Jewish Federation building: Reflections on Kristallnacht – Bonnie Shafrin, Director Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center. For more information: 414.963.2714. For Educational and Resource Material on Kristallnacht: joyceg@milwaukeejewish.org.
- November 13, 2007, 7:00 p.m. – Assembly Chamber, State House, Trenton NJ
- State of New Jersey Kristallnacht Commemoration: An Evening of Remembrance, with New Jersey State officials and guest speaker Lore Seligson, Kristallnacht survivor. For information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/111307ristallnacht.pdf
- November 15, 2007, 8:30 am-1: 30 pm – Drew University, University Center 107, Madison, NJ
- Colloquium commemorating Kristallnacht: Holocaust Denial & Anti-Semitism Entwined: Historical, Activist and Educational Perspectives. Speakers include Dr. Ann Saltzman, Shelly Shapiro, and Kenneth Stern. Fee. For information/registration contact ctrholst@drew.edu or call 973 408-3600.
- Now - October 7, 2007 – First Stage Children’s Theater, Milwaukee, WI
- Play: Hana's Suitcase, based on the true journey of discovery of a teacher in Japan teaching the Holocaust. Talk backs following selected performances. George Brady, brother of Hana, and playwright Emil Sher will speak on Saturday Oct. 6 and Sunday Oct. 7. For information go to FirstStage.org or call the Marcus Center Box Office at (414) 273-7206.
- Now - October 28, 2007 – Rynok/Town Square International Cultural Center, Krakow, Poland
- Exhibit: A World before a Catastrophe. Krakow's Jews Before the War. For more information: http://www.mck.krakow.pl/view.php?idt=3&idm=104&lang=eng
- Now - October, 2007 – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
- Exhibit: From the Heart: The Photojournalism of Ruth Gruber. A world-renowned journalist now 95 years old, Gruber had backstage access to Jewish history: she escorted war refugees from Europe to America, visited DP camps, detailed the plight of the Exodus 1947, described the establishment of the State of Israel. For more information: www.mjhnyc.org.
- Now - Nov. 25, 2007 – Ben Uri Gallery The London Jewish Museum of Art, London, England
- Exhibit: Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern Dusseldorf, the story of Dr. Max Stern's Galerie Stern and of the forced sale of its extensive stock in 1937 in Cologne. The exhibit includes up to 70 images of missing works sold at prices reflecting the speed and overall circumstances of the time. For more information: www.benuri.org.uk
- Now - December 23, 2007 – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
- Anne Frank’s Personal Family Images on Exhibit at Florida Holocaust Museum. For more information: www.flholocaustmuseum.org
- Now - 2007 – Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- Exhibit: Spots of Light – To be Woman in the Holocaust. This multimedia exhibit underscores the unique experience of women in the Holocaust and how they coped with the changing realities of their world examining issues of motherhood, love, femininity, womanhood, arts and food all through the individual stories of the women who experienced them. For information: www1.yadvashem.org/new_museum/pavilion.html
- Now - February 3, 2008 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Illustrations and Text by Dr. Robert O. Fisch: The story of one man’s journey through the Holocaust – illustrated works from two of his books Light from the Yellow Star: A Lesson of Love from the Holocaust, and The Metamorphosis to Freedom. For more: www.hmh.org
- Now - February 3, 2008 – Mincberg Gallery, Morgan Family Center
Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX - Exhibit: How Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia and Extermination
For more information: www.hmh.org/medethics
- Now - February 10, 2008 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Lecture Series Medical Ethics and the Holocaust and companion exhibit How Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia and Extermination will explore how the medical practices of the Third Reich continue to challenge medical ethics. www.hmh.org
- Now - February 10, 2008 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Exhibit: Through the Eye of the Needle features the work of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz, a Holocaust survivor from Poland who, at age 50, began creating works of fabric art to tell her story. For more information on this exhibit: www.hmh.org/article.asp?id=151 www.artandremembrance.org/
- October 2, 2007 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Medical Ethics and the Holocaust - From Long Island to Auschwitz: The Surprising Origin of the 'Master Race' Concept with Edwin Black and Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis with Dr. Sandra Ann Carson. www.hmh.org
- October 2, 2007, 7:00 p.m. – Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest From Memory to History: Faces and Voices of the Holocaust film series: Triumph of the Spirit. Light refreshments will follow. RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194
- October 4 - 21, 2007 – CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center, Terre Haute, IN
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Varian Fry, ASSIGNMENT: RESCUE, 1940-1941. For more information: www.ushmm.org.
- October 4, 2007 at 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. – The Theatre at St. Clements, New York, NY
- Premiere of Warsaw , a musical drama based on true events during World War II which honors the memory of the Ghetto fighters' struggle. For more information: New York Musical Theatre Festival
- October 4, 2007, 6:30 p.m.– Borders Book Store, 14th & F St. NW, Washington, DC
- 2G Alan Elsner will be talking about his new book The Nazi Hunter. For more information: 202-737-1385
- October 7, 2007, 10:30 a.m.- 12:00 noon – DC JCC, Washington, DC
- As part of the Washington Jewish Literary Festival, Gertrude Berg's biographer Dr. Glenn D. Smith, Jr. will speak about his new book "Something on My Own" Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929–1956 and daughter of survivors Aviva Kempner will screen the work-in-progress of her film Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg. The event also includes a brunch. Fees. For more information: Washington, DC JCC or 202-581-9400.
- October 7, 2007. 2:00 p.m. – Mead Hall, Drew University, Madison, NJ
- Fifteenth anniversary celebration of the Drew University Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study: honoring Gerald Gurland, FAIA. Guest speaker: Rabbi Dr. Alfred Gotschalk, Chancellor Emeritus Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. For information/reservations, please contact center at ctrholst@drew.edu or call 973 408-3600.
- October 9, 2007 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- What Should We Tell Medical Students about Racial Hygiene, Cultural Diversity, the Doctor-Patient Relationship and Professionalism? Speakers: Theresa M. Duello, Ph.D., and Jordan Cohen, M.D. www.hmh.org
- October 10, 2007, noon – DC JCC, Washington, DC
- As part of the Jewish Literary Festival: Flora, I was but a Childby Flora Singer with guests Michael Berenbaum and welcome remarks by H.E. Dominique Struye de Swielande, Ambassador of Belgium. For more information: http://washingtondcjcc.org/classes/center-for-the-arts/literary/litfest2007/flora-i-was-but-a-child.html
- October 10, 2007, 6:30 p.m. – Huntington Ballroom, The Colonnade Hotel Boston, Boston, MA
- The Terezin Chamber Music Foundation 10th annual benefit concert featuring Grammy Award-Winning Pianist and Conductor Robert Spano and Dr. George Horner, Holocaust Survivor & Terezín Pianist. Reception with Wine and Buffet at 6:30 p.m., concert at 7:30, dessert reception follows concert. To order tickets call (857) 222-8263 or e-mail info@terezinmusic.org
- October 11, 2007, 7:00 p.m. – The Polo Club, Boca Raton, FL
- NEXT GENERATIONS and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum present an evening with the members of the Museum’s Curatorial Affairs, Scott Miller, Kyra Schuster and Rebecca Erbelding who will discuss the types of personal artifacts, documents, photographs, film and video they collect. For information: ndershaw@yahoo.com
- October 14, 2007, 1:00 p.m. – Maurice Levin Theater, Leon and Toby Cooperman JCC, Ross Family Campus, West Orange, NJ.
- Cafe Europa: The Holocaust Survivors Friendship Society First Annual Community Celebration,, featuring the Zamir Chorale of Boston, America's foremost Jewish chorale ensemble. Dessert reception at 1:00, performance at 2:30 p.m. For information/reservations, please contact Sylvia Heller at 973-765-9050, ext.262 or sheller@jfsmetronj.org.
- October 14, 2007, 5:00 p.m. – DC JCC, Washington, DC
- Moment Magazine’s Emerging Writer Awards Ceremony: SALA’S GIFT, winner for Nonfiction For more, visit www.washingtondcjcc.org or call (202) 777-3250.
- October 14, 2007, 7:00 p.m. – Douglass College Center, Trayes B, New Brunswick, NJ
- The Raoul Wallenberg Annual Program: Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine with guest speaker Omer Bartov, Brown University. Please RSVP by October 5 to csjl@rci.rutgers.edu or (732) 932-2033. For more: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/
- October 15 - 19, 2007, 7a.m. - 7 p.m. – Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda, Washington, DC
- Exhibition on View: Letters to Sala: A Young Woman’s Life in Nazi Labor Camps Exhibition sponsored by The New York Public Library and the Office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. For more information, visit www.letterstosala.org or contact Curator and Project Manager, Jill Vexler at 212-505-6427 or jill@jillvexler.com
- October 16, 2007 - November 15, 2007 – Mercer County Community College Art Gallery, West Windsor, NJ
- Exhibit: Women’s Voices from the Holocaust & From the Children: Art of the Holocaust.
Open house, October 14, 2007 at 3:00 pm. www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/101407art.pdf
- October 16, 2007, 10:00 a.m. - 4 p.m. – Jerusalem International Convention Centre, Jerusalem, Israel
- AMCHA turns 20 – AMCHA is the National Israeli Center for Psychosocial Support of Survivors of the Holocaust and the Second Generation. To celebrate its anniversary there will be a special musical and cultural event for survivors, volunteers, staff members and supporters. For more information: amcha@netvision.net.il or www.amcha.org.
- October 16, 2007, 12 noon – Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest Lunch and Learn with survivor Fania Gonski. Please bring a dairy lunch; beverage and cookies provided. RSVP and information, holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- October 16, 2007 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- "How Doctors Become Killers"and "What is the Status of the Government-Citizen Relationship in the United States Today?" Speakers: Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D. and author Ward Connerly will present lectures on current-day medical and governmental ties to the Holocaust. For more information: www.hmh.org
- October 16, 2007, 7:30 p.m. – Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- The Jewish Historical Society of MetroWest and the Holocaust Council of MetroWest present a public forum Long Ago and Far Away: Memories of a Dark Era, a discussion of three unique World War II eyewitness accounts. Ellis Jacob will discuss his experiences living in Shanghai, China before, during, and after the war. Gina Lanceter and Marsha Kreuzman will recount their amazing personal accounts of survival during the Holocaust. Light refreshments will be served. Free. RSVP and information: 973-929-3194 or holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org
- October 18 - December 23, 2007 – Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA
- Exhibit: A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II & the Jewish People . For more information: www.blessingexhibit.org or www.kimmelcenter.org.
- October 18, 2007, 7:00 p.m. – West Caldwell Public Library, West Caldwell, NJ
- A Commitment to Touch the Holocaust – DVD exhibit and lecture by John Pascal, Teacher, Seton Hall Preparatory School. For more information: www.che-nj.org/jp_pres.html.
- October 21, 2007, 2:00 p.m. – Kean University, Union, NJ
- Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the establishment of the New Jersey Council/Commission on Holocaust Education, the first in the United States. Keynote speaker, Governor Thomas H. Kean and musical program by Theodore Bikel. Lobby displays at 1:00 p.m. For more information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/102107ann.pdf
- October 22, 2007, 16:00-18:30 – Conference Venue Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
- As part of the XIXth World Congress of the World Association for Social Psychiatry: Childhood Trauma in Film-Unzere Kinder (Our Children). In this last Yiddish-language feature made in Poland, famous Yiddish comedians Dzigan and Szumacher visit an orphanage near the city of Lodz to perform for an audience of Jewish orphans who survived the Shoah. Their performance stirs up painful memories of recent events. Having all lived through the reality of separation and loss, the children tell their stories. Speakers: Maurice Preter, M.D., Columbia University, Eva Weil, Ph.D., University of Paris, La Sorbonne, and Paris Psychoanalytic Society and Harold J. Bursztajn, M.D., Harvard Medical School. For more: www.psychiatryneurology.com, www.forensic-psych.com, http://www.wasp2007.cz
- October 23, 2007, 11:00 a.m.- :30 p.m. – Greenacres Country Club, Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ
- Ann Kirschner will discuss her book SALA’S GIFT. Advance registration required. For information contact Lourdes at 609 987 8100 or lourdesb@jfcsonline.org
- October 23, 2007, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. – NJ School for the Deaf, 320 Sullivan Way, Trenton, NJ
- Deaf Holocaust Testimonials – Multi-media presentation by historian and principal gatherer of Deaf Holocaust survivors’ stories, Dr. Simon Carmel. Free. Voice interpreters and CART provided New Jersey Teachers and Educational interpreters can earn 1.5 professional development hours by attending. www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/102307deaf.pdf
- October 23, 2007 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Lectures: Frankenstein or the More Perfect Human: Who Will It Be? with Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D. and “Immediate Gratification and the Quest for Perfection: A Frank Discussion About the Use of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports with Mark Adickes, M.D. www.hmh.org
- October 25, 2007, 12 noon – Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest Bagels and Books:discussion of Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky. RSVP and information: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- October 25, 2007, 7- 9 p.m. – Barnes and Noble, Salisbury Blvd, Salisbury, MD
- S. Hanala Stadner will be reading from and signing her memoir about growing up Holocaust, My Parents Went Through The Holocaust and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt. Stadner is an author, therapist, comedienne, and host of her own show on the Jewish Life Television Network. For more information: 310.454.3080
- October 25, 2007, 7:30 p.m. – Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
- Ann Kirschner will discuss her book, SALA’S GIFT, as part of the 41st Annual Jewish Community Book Fair, which is part of their Jewish Cultural Arts Festival. For more information, contact Sandy Saada at ssaada@jccbuffalo.org or 716/688-4114
- October 26, 2007 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Speaker: Max Blankfeld will show howFamily Tree DNA can come to the rescue when the paper trail ends or traditional genealogy runs into a brick wall. This event is cosponsored with the Clayton Library. Advance registration is not required. For more information: www.hmh.org
- October 28, 2007, 11:00 a.m. – Tikvat Israel Congregation, Rockville, MD
- The Generation After annual membership brunch with keynote speaker: Ambassador Christian Kennedy, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, US State Department. Fees. For more information: etfinder@juno.com.
- October 28, 2007, 1-5 p.m. – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
- Panel discussion: Jewish Resistance Reconsidered with Yehuda Bauer, professor emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Judy Baumel-Schwartz, associate professor, Bar-Ilan University; David Engel, professor, New York University, Yitzchak Mais, exhibition curator; and Robert Shapiro, assistant professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Panelists will discuss the Museum's groundbreaking new exhibit that shatters the myth that Jews went passively to their deaths during the Holocaust. Fees. For more information: www.mjhnyc.org
- October 29, 2007, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. – U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
- Lecture: “According to the Flesh”: Metamorphoses of the Jew in Christian and Post-Christian Europe with Professor Alain Finkielkraut, Professor of the History of Ideas at the École Polytechnique in Paris, scholar of post-Holocaust Jewish identity in Europe, and author of 28 books and collected essays. He will retrace the genealogy of the new manifestations of antisemitism in France and Europe and explore the adaptability of antisemitism throughout history, highlighting the recycling of anti-Judaic tropes in the current debate in France with respect to the Middle East conflict. Reception will follow the lecture. Please call 202.488.6162 for reservations.
- October 30, 2007, 12 noon – Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest: Lunch and Learn with survivor Bea Glotzer. Please bring a dairy lunch. Beverage and cookies provided. RSVP and information: 973-929-3194 or holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org
- October 30, 2007 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Disability and Genocide: Where Are We Today? Speaker: Lex Frieden, senior vice president of Memorial Hermann-TIRR (The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research) in Houston. Panelists will include Richard Petty, Independent Living Research Utilization; Jacquie Brennan, director, Center for Paralegal Studies, University of Houston; Bill Monroe, professor of English and executive associate dean, Honors College, University of Houston; and Wendy Wilkinson, clinical assistant professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine. www.hmh.org
- November 1, 2007. 7-9 p.m. – Barnes and Noble, 1805 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
- S. Hanala Stadner will be reading from and signing her memoir about growing up Holocaust, My Parents Went Through The Holocaust and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt. For more information: 310.454.3080
- November 4, 2007, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.— Center for Jewish History, New York, NY
- Childhood Trauma in Film: Unzere Kinder (Our Children). This last Yiddish-language film made in Poland features famous Yiddish comedians Szimon Dzigan and Yisroel Szumacher and a cast of Jewish orphans, survivors of the Holocaust. Subtitles. The film will be used as the basis of a workshop on psychological trauma and its representation in film. Introduced and moderated by Dr. Maurice Preter and Dr. Isaac Tylim with the participation of Dr. Harold J. Bursztajn, Harvard Medical School; Professor Shimon Redlich, Ben-Gurion University, Marek Web, YIVO Historian; and Dr. Eva Weil. For more information: www.cjh.org
- November 4 2007. 7-9 p.m. – Barnes and Noble, 200 West Route 70, Marlton, NJ
- S. Hanala Stadner will be reading from and signing her memoir about growing up Holocaust, My Parents Went Through The Holocaust and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt. For more information: 310.454.3080
- November 4, 2007, TBD – Jewish Federation of Lee & Charlotte Counties, Fort Meyers, FL
- Ann Kirschner will discuss her book, SALA’S GIFT, as part of the Jewish Book Fair. For more information, contact Naomi Rubin at Naomi@jewishfederationswfl.org or 239/481-4449.
- November 5, 2007, 7:30 pm – Annunciation Center, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
- 18th Annual (Chai) Kristallnacht Commemoration featuring Stuart Rabner, Chief Justice NJ Supreme Court, keynote address, Absence of Presence - Presence of Absence by Dr. Michael Berenbaum, and music by HaZamir Choir of NJ. For more information: www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter
- November 6, 2007 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Cinematic Perspectives on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide with speaker: Glen O. Gabbard, Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis and a professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. For more information: www.hmh.org
- November 7, 2007, 7:30 p.m. – Park Avenue Synagogue, 50 East 87th St, New York, NY
- Annual Book Fair – Dr. Charles Adés Fishman, will read from Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (2007) & other books. For more information: (212) 369-2600 or RS1st@aol.com.
- November 7, 2007, 7:30 p.m. – Leo Yassenoff Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus, Columbus, OH
- Ann Kirschner will discuss her book, SALA’S GIFT, as part of the Jewish Book Fair. For more information, contact Melanie Butter at mbutter@columbusjcc.org or 614/559-6233.
- November 8, 2007, 6:30 p.m. – Milwaukee Jewish Federation, North Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, WI
- Kristallnacht Commemoration: outdoor candle lighting ceremony (weather permitting) followed by indoor program in the Milwaukee Jewish Federation building: Reflections on Kristallnacht – Bonnie Shafrin, Director Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center. For more information: 414.963.2714. For Educational and Resource Material on Kristallnacht: joyceg@milwaukeejewish.org.
- November 9, 2007, 1:00 p.m. – JCC of Metro Detroit, West Bloomfield, MI
- Ann Kirschner will discuss her book, SALA’S GIFT , as part of the Jewish Book Fair. For more information, contact Heidi Budaj at hbudaj@jccdet.org or 248/432-5466.
- November 11, 2007, 3:00 p.m. – Betty & Milton Katz JCC, Cherry Hill, NJ
- Ann Kirschner will discuss her book, SALA’S GIFT , as part of the Jewish Book Fair. For more information, contact Harriet Kirsh Pozen at hpozen@jfedsnj.org or 856/424-4444x108.
- November 12, 2007, 7:00 p.m. – Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest From Memory to History: Faces and Voices of the Holocaust film series: My Knees Were Jumping. Light refreshments will follow. RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- November 13, 2007, 7:00 p.m. (EST)
- Live interactive videoconference
Through her story and unique perspective, Gerda Weissmann Klein discusses the dangers of hate and extremism. A collaboration between The Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation and MAGPI (a Division of Information Systems at The University of Pennsylvania), this live interactive videoconference program is open to all University and College students, faculty and communities. On Nov 15, 2007 and March 14, 2008, a 2 part national videoconference will be available for middle and high school students. For information: http://kleinfoundation.org/contact/
- November 13, 2007, 7:00 p.m. – Assembly Chamber, State House, Trenton NJ
- State of New Jersey Kristallnacht Commemoration: An Evening of Remembrance, with New Jersey State officials and guest speaker Lore Seligson, Kristallnacht survivor. For information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/111307ristallnacht.pdf
- November 14, 2007, 7:00 p.m. – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
- The Quarrel: A provocative play by David Brandes and Joseph Telushkin, which follows a chance encounter between two estranged friends who each believed that the other had perished in the concentration camps. A discussion with playwright/screenwriter Rabbi Joseph Telushkin follows the performance. Fees. For more information: www.mjhnyc.org
- November 15, 2007, 8:30 am-1: 30 pm – Drew University, University Center 107, Madison, NJ
- Colloquium commemorating Kristallnacht: Holocaust Denial & Anti-Semitism Entwined: Historical, Activist and Educational Perspectives. Speakers include Dr. Ann Saltzman, Shelly Shapiro, and Kenneth Stern. Fee. For information/registration contact ctrholst@drew.edu or call 973 408-3600.
- November 15, 2007, 7:00 p.m. – Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall, Lynn University, 3601 Military Trail, Boca Raton, FL
- NEXTGENERATIONS presents a screening of the film: The Nazi Officer’s Wife based on Edith Hahn's acclaimed memoir. Guest speaker: Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger. For ticket information: ndershaw@yahoo.com or judihng@yahoo.com
- November 18, 2007, 9:30 a.m.- noon – Sarah Chudnow Campus, 10995 N. Market Street
Mequon, WI
- Generation After presents: Bridging the Past, Facing the Future with featured speaker Charles Silow, Ph.D. from Jewish Home & Aging Services in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Learn about special issues associated with caring for survivors. RSVP: 414-963-2714 or joyceg@milwaukeejewish.org
- November 18, 2007, 2:30 p.m. – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
- Film: Ulica Granicza (Border Street) (Poland 1948). This film recreates the last days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and explores war and resistance from the perspective of children: young Jewish boys plotting for their own survival and non-Jewish Poles rejecting the Nazi occupation as an insult to their Polish heritage. Introduction and post-screening discussion with Professor Stuart Leibman, CUNY Graduate Center. Fees. For more information: www.mjhnyc.org
- November 18, 2007, 3:00-5:00 – The Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
- National Jewish Book Month Celebration with author Richard Hollander: Every Day Lasts a Year is a Holocaust story that starts more than 40 years after the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany. Shortly after the tragic deaths of Joseph and Rita Hollander in 1986, their son Richard stumbled across a briefcase in their attic. To his astonishment, it was jammed with letters with swastikas and Nazi stamps. The letters, written in Polish and German, were sent to Joseph in the United States from his family in Nazi-occupied Poland between 1939 and 1942. Free. Reservations are suggested: (410) 732-6400 x14 / idackmanalon@jewishmuseummd.org.
- November 18, 2007, TBD – Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Transcending Trauma Conference
Generations of the Shoah - New Jersey and the Holocaust Council of MetroWest present Dina Wardi, Israeli psychotherapist and author of Memorial Candles: Children of the Holocaust, a seminal work on children of survivors. For information email holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or call 973-929-3194.
- November 28, 2007, 7:00 p.m. – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
- Holocaust Odysseys: The Jews of Saint-Martin-Vesubie and Their Flight Through France and Italy with author Susan Zuccotti. This book uncovers the chilling stories of nine central and eastern European Jewish families displaced to France, and later to Italy, during the war and describes their agonizing struggles and the evolution of France's policies towards the Jews. Fees. For more information: www.mjhnyc.org
- FYI… Website reunites families separated by the Shoah
www.ShoahConnect.org has been designed to help reunite families separated by the Shoah. ShoahConnect provides a tool to associate email addresses with the more than two million Pages of Testimony on Yad Vashem's website, www.yadvashem.org, automatically matches people associated with the same Pages, and facilitates semi-private contact between them. The site is completely non-commercial. Anyone who submitted a Page of Testimony to Yad Vashem or is searching for lost relatives can potentially benefit from ShoahConnect. Immediate family members of deceased submitters are also encouraged to use the service. ShoahConnect aims to increase the number of dramatic family reunions that happen when close relatives discover each other through a Page of Testimony memorializing a common relative.ShoahConnect is available in English, with partial translations into Hebrew, Danish, Polish, and Portuguese. For more info, visit www.ShoahConnect.org or contact logan@ShoahConnect.org
- FYI… Unfortunately in Israel today there are thousands of Holocaust survivors who go hungry every day. At fifteen free Meir Panim restaurants in Israel, some 5,000 survivors get help through food service at the restaurants, meals on wheels, cultural activities and dried food packages for Rosh Hashanah and Passover. To find out more www.meirpanim.org
- FYI… The Association of Survivors Landsberg / Kaufering Outer Camps of Dachau has a new website: www.survivors-landsberg.com/index.html
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FYI… A website has been set up containing information on a number of children rescued from
Czechoslovakia just before the start of WWII by Nicholas Winton. Most of these children were Jewish, and many of them (or their descendants) have been made aware of the story through TV programs and other means in England and elsewhere.
Nicky Winton (now Sir Nicholas) is now 98, but still very active. A friend of his, Pete Powell, has published on the internet, in searchable form, the names and information contained in the records that Nicky kept, as a way of making contact with those 'children' who were not yet aware of the story (about half the original 669 that were rescued). www.wintons-children.org.uk
- FYI… The book launch of Churchill and The Jews by Sir Martin Gilbert has been canceled. To accommodate those who wanted a signed copy of this book, special arrangements have been made. To find out more contact info@churchillbooks.com or ccsgary@bellsouth.net
- FYI... Articles in the media
- Atonement still due Holocaust Survivors
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=30&ArticleID=7677&TM=51706.77- Jewish Groups Call Holocaust Compensation Offer 'Unacceptable'
www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,503572,00.html- Nazi-era ghetto laborers get pension
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104244.html- Agencies will provide more funds for survivors www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2007/09/13/news/israel/ccover0914.txt
- Help for survivors (scroll down to this headline)
www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/33563/format/html/displaystory.html- Shoah act should pass
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=31&ArticleID=7708&TM=63853.7- New bill to fund Holocaust education
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104376.html- In the Shadow of Horror, SS Guardians Frolic
www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/arts/design/19photo.html?_r=1&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/L/Lewis,%20Neil%20A.&oref=slogin
Audio / visual companion to this article:
www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20070919_ALBUM_FEATURE/index.html#- Horror humanized
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=7745&TM=67261.28- 55 years later, restitution is an art
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1188392566744- Dodd publishes father's Nuremberg letters
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/103992.html- House honors Holocaust hero
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104208.html- First memorial to black victims of Nazi genocide
www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,2170190,00.html- Berlin rededicates synagogue
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/103927.html- German Jewry to honor Merkel
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/103926.html- Ahmadinejad sparks protests across from U.N., at Columbia
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20070924unrally.html- Israeli neo-Nazis indicted
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104115.html- Czech soccer player accused of giving Nazi salute
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/103925.html- Norman Finkelstein resigns
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104012.html- German unions reject boycott
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104040.html- The Rykestrasse Synagogue reopens its doors
www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=43407- Pope visits Holocaust memorial in Vienna
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104044.html- Milan to remember Holocaust deportees
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104194.html- Rosh Hashanah 1944 n A Holocaust controversy
www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2007/09/13/news/local/history0907.txt- Recovering masterpieces
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1188392538832- A Holocaust mystery finds some answers
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070916/ap_on_re_eu/drawings_from_dachau- Jonathan Silvers - The truth and nothing but…
www.lifestylesmagazine.com/website/current/stories/211/Lifestyle_211_016.html- Marcel Marceau, 84, hero to children for miming and role resisting Nazis
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20070925marceauresistance.html- Ex-SS guard leaves U.S.
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104310.html- Shared Present Helps Ease Survivors’ Painful Past
www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/nyregion/24survivors.html?ex=1191297600&en=85636fef5de2df59&ei=5070&emc=eta1- Down Time From Murder
www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/opinion/24cohen.html?em&ex=1190779200&en=12961625109a6576&ei=5087%0A- EU may fund anti-Semitic radio station
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1189411466425- 'Nazi mascot' ends almost 60 years of silence
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hiu_S9WJWGSqNpE_BWgOVMEy3tfA- Holocaust memorial unveiled in Ukraine
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104340.html- Alleged Nazi wins legal victory
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104373.html- Antonina’s List
www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/books/review/Max-t.html?_r=2&8bu&emc=bu&oref=slogin&oref=slogin- Holocaust denier's sentence upheld
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104172.html- Holocaust Survivors Honor Camp Liberator
NPR Audio Player Tribute to Vernon Tott
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14661020
Click icon to listen to broadcast- Polish-Jewish school opens in Bangkok slum
www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/105512.html- A focus on Jewish learning
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID=7727&SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4- Growing up in minutes: Scots pupils at Auschwitz
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1511102007- Czech group: March is neo-Nazi front
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104341.html- Heirs Make Huge Claim Over Dutch Works of Art
www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/arts/design/26clai.html?ex=1191470400&en=d73514b3b82a8ffa&ei=5070&emc=eta1- NJ Jewish News – State Association taps Edison lawyer as executive director (son of survivors)www.njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/092007/njStateAssociation.html
- FYI… Columbia President Bollinger Introduces Ahmadinejad » video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5476215919949031975&q=Bollinger+Columbia&total=53&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0- FYI… Iran's Unlikely TV Hit - WSJ.com
- FYI… The 30th of August marked the International Day of the Disappeared
Perhaps the best known of the disappeared is Raoul Wallenberg whose case so singular since he disappeared after having risked his life to prevent tens of thousands of individuals from becoming disappeared themselves.More than 24,000 people from all over the world already joined our ongoing campaign, “100,000 names for 100,000 lives”. We have set the goal of collecting one signature for each of the 100,000 people saved by Wallenberg, which will be sent to President Putin of Russia, as we demand that he finally let the truth of Wallenberg’s fate be known. Sign the petition.
More than 24,000 people from all over the world already joined our ongoing campaign, “100,000 names for 100,000 lives”. We have set the goal of collecting one signature for each of the 100,000 people saved by Wallenberg, which will be sent to President Putin of Russia, as we demand that he finally let the truth of Wallenberg’s fate be known. Sign the petition.
- FYI… Gratz College has a number of Holocaust Education related events this semester. Act 48 Credits available for each.
- Atonement still due Holocaust Survivors
- Oct. 14 – Trip to the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park, NY to see the exhibit, Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust. A kosher, boxed lunch is included in the fee of $72 per person. Bus leaves Gratz at 8:30 am. Afternoon includes a walking tour of synagogues on the Lower East Side. To register: www.gratz.edu. For online registration you must register at MyGratz first and then find the event under the Samuel Netzky Division of Continuing Education and go to “Register Now” at the bottom of the page. Up to 4 Act 48 credits available.
- Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m.– Silent No More: Testimonies of Deaf Holocaust Survivors Fee: $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Up to 1.5 Act 48 credits available. www.gratz.edu.
- Nov. 29, 7 p.m.– Sandra Roberts, the teacher who began the Paper Clips project that became a documentary and a worldwide sensation, and two of her students will give a presentation on how they are “changing the world one classroom at a time” followed by a screening of the film. Up to 1.5 Act 48 credits available. $25 per person www.gratz.edu.
- FYI from Boston…
Our holiday visitation program is a collaboration between Generations After (GA) and Legacies at Jewish Children & Family Service in Boston. This program provides visits by volunteers, for the most part children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, to isolated Holocaust survivors. The elders are visited for Rosh Hashanah, Chanukah, Purim, Pesach, and Shavuot.Between 30 and 35 survivors are visited in their homes for each holiday by 30 volunteers. All volunteers have been screened prior to their first visit, as required by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We try to facilitate repeated visits between a volunteer and a particular survivor, so that a dependable and meaningful relationship can develop.
A gift bag containing food and goods appropriate to the holiday and season is prepared by JF&CS, and given to the elder by the volunteer. On occasion, Jewish day schools in the area have provided personalized gifts for survivors as mitzvah projects. The gift bags delight the seniors as they appreciate being remembered and the students have an opportunity to engage in meaningful mitzvah projects, often connected to Holocaust learning in their classrooms. For more information: EKrechmer@jfcsboston.org
- FYI… Congratulations to Judith Tellerman
for receiving the 2007 ASCAP Songwriter ASCAPLUS Award for The Shoah Remembrance Anthem Legacy. For more information contact Judy at purelightrecords@yahoo.com or call 773-281-9034. - FYI… Seeking Wertheim relatives.
I am Esther Rothberg, daughter of Gustawa Beckerman (she's still alive & well & living in Los Angeles), formerly Wertheim from the Lodz Ghetto. My Grandfather was Shmuel Leib Wertheim, married to Esther Wertheim, and his son was Dovid Aron Wertheim. If you can help me find any of my family, please contact EstherR@ou.org - FYI… From the Center for Holocaust Awareness and Northeast Philadelphia Region…
A landmark exhibit, A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II & the Jewish People, is coming to the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, PA on October 18. The exhibit chronicles the Pope’s association with the Jewish community from the time of his childhood in Poland, with the help of a unique collection of photographs and artifacts, and illustrates how these lifelong associations shaped his papacy, the Catholic Church and the future of Jewish–Catholic relations. More information on the exhibit is at www.blessingexhibit.orgWe are seeking volunteers to serve as docents for this exhibit. Training will be held once before the exhibit opens and then once at the exhibit. Details on this and timing still have to be worked out. We are especially interested in having docents available to lead groups. Anyone interested in serving as a docent should contact Dr. Nancy Ruth Fox, Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA 19131. Ph (610) 660-1596 Fax (610) 660-1525
- FYI… Holocaust Museum Houston's Educational Trip to China in Spring 2008
"Exploring Jewish History in China"
In 2007, Holocaust Museum Houston opened the hearts and minds or our community to the experiences of the Jews of Shanghai with the exhibit "Shanghai: A Refuge During the Holocaust." In 2008, we will continue our exploration of Jewish history in China with this study and cultural trip to China March 29 through April 11, 2008. The tour group will visit Beijing, Tianjin, Harbin, Xi'an and Shanghai. An optional extension to Guilin and Hong Kong also will be available. For more: www.hmh.org
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