Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
November 2007
gsi@genshoah.org
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Dear Members and Friends,
We are delighted to report progress on the ratification of the Bad Arolsen Holocaust archive. We have been informed that the French Senate and Assembly, and the Greek Parliament have ratified the treaty and are taking the necessary steps to finalize and formalize the release of the archive. This means all the necessary countries have ratified the treaty. We thank all of you who wrote to the embassies of these countries to encourage them to move forward quickly on this.

We are pleased to announce the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee passed the Holocaust Insurance Bill. This bill still has to move on to a full House vote and also to the Senate. For more information, see press release at: http://wexler.house.gov/apps/list/press/fl19_wexler/102307_holocaust.shtml. To see the specific language of the legislation: http://thomas.loc.gov/beta/res.jsp?searchCurrent=true. For background information, including the actual hearing before the subcommittee on Europe complete with survivor testimony, see the Restitution section below.

We commend the bipartisan leadership from some key members of the US House of Representatives: Representatives Ros-Lehtinen (FL), Wexler (FL), Cantor (VA), Pence (IN) and Chabot (OH) championed this bill. Also, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Lantos (CA), deserves credit for his support. To watch the mark up of this legislation: http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/testimony.asp?pg=2. You must scroll down to the bottom of the section listing the items on the day's agenda and click on web cast. This issue comes up for discussion about 2 hours into the session and you can skip forward using the time line display.

Credit must be given to HSF-USA (Holocaust Survivors Foundation-USA) for taking the leadership role in this effort. HSF-USA and GSI have worked together tirelessly to ensure that survivors’ voices are heard. Clearly the letters, calls, faxes and emails we sent to our representatives in Washington DC have had a positive impact. Now it is very important for all of you to send letters of thanks to the leadership and to those who voted for passage. They need to hear that their constituents are aware of their good work and continue to follow the bill.

This has proved to be a powerful broad-based, grassroots, intergenerational, survivor-community effort. We shall follow the progress of this legislation and keep you informed. Our thanks to the many people who helped make this a reality. To see our letter to the editor of the Roll Call congressional newsletter: www.genshoah.org/RollCall_s101907.pdf

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. We will have a speaker training workshop and other programs. We will also meet to discuss the needs in our various local communities, where we anticipate needs in the future and how best to carry forth the legacy of the Shoah. See below for details on the conference.

GSI is a member of the AHO (Association of Holocaust Organizations) and will have a full page listing in the 2008 directory and a link on the AHO website www.ahoinfo.org

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 throughout the US and from other countries. This global interactive listserv is the fastest way to reach the survivor community should issues / concerns arise: gsi@genshoah.org.

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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RESTITUTION
Ghetto Labor Compensation Fund Announced by Germany
(Note: the Claims Conference is not administering this program.) The German government announced on September 19, 2007 the establishment of a new fund to pay symbolic compensation for voluntary work in Holocaust-era ghettos. The fund will issue one-time payments of €2,000 to Holocaust survivors who performed voluntary work in ghettos subject to criteria of the German government. The German government expects that 50,000 survivors will be eligible for payment.

Links to German government information:
Information issued by the German government is available in German at www.bundesfinanzministerium.de
Additional material is available at: www.tel-aviv.diplo.de
An English translation of the guidelines by the German government is available at: www.tel-aviv.diplo.de.
Material in Hebrew is available at: www.tel-aviv.diplo.de.
Links to German government applications:
Application forms in English are available at: http://www.badv.bund.de
Application forms in German are available at: http://www.badv.bund.de
Applicants may also write to BADV, 53221 Bonn, Germany. The telephone is +49-1888 7030-1324.

The United States House of Representatives
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe, held a hearing on October 3, 2007 on America’s Role in Addressing Outstanding Holocaust Issues. Testimony was given by Ambassador Christian Kennedy, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, US Department of State and Gideon Taylor, Executive Vice President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), Sidney Zabludoff, as well as from Holocaust survivors Jack Rubin, Alex Moskovic and Jehuda Evron. To read the transcripts and to watch the hearing: http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/sub_europe.asp.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
From Yad Vashem:
Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev was presented with the Légion d’Honneur by French President Sarkozy.
The letter notifying Shalev of the award, states: “This prestigious distinction is presented to you for your extraordinary work on behalf of Holocaust remembrance worldwide. This is a reward for a man of peace, tolerance and sincerity, the person who has turned Yad Vashem into a place of renown, of mutual exchange for younger generations of all backgrounds and cultures.” The decoration was presented at a special ceremony hosted by President Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace.

International School for Holocaust Studies Honored with Award
Yad Vashem is pleased to announce that Echoes and Reflections has won the National Association for Multicultural Education Media Award for 2007. This award recognizes not only the print curriculum but also specifically brings honor and recognition to the Echoes and Reflections Web site, which is beginning to be seen more and more as an integral part of the curriculum and not just an add-on or extra resource. The award will be presented in Baltimore on November 3rd at the NAME President’s Banquet on behalf of the Ant-Defamation League, USC Shoah Foundation for Visual History and Education, and Yad Vashem.

Names Recovery Project
Yad Vashem Shoah Victims' Names Recovery staff will be on site at the upcoming 19th Annual Conference of World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust, November 5-8, in Jerusalem to provide assistance with searching the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names and with completing Pages of Testimony for victims who perished. Those interested may also register to join our global network of volunteers to help complete this historic effort.

Register to activate your membership for our new volunteers forum, which is a venue for networking, exchanging ideas, experiences and tips for successful names collection.

2008 March of the Living
The 2008 March of the Living will take place April 28 - May 12. There will be specific buses for adults including an international bus with participants from Australia, South Africa and the United States among other countries. For further information, contact Ayala Tamir at (212) 869-6800 or ayala@motlmail.org.

 UPCOMING CONFERENCES

Testimony across the Disciplines
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
25 Years at Yale
November 4, 2007
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102
63 High Street
New Haven, CT
For more information: www.library.yale.edu/testimonies or fortunoff.archive@yale.edu
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.
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,   9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus
Whippany, NJ
Speakers: Sophie Freud, Ph.D Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family
Dina Wardi, MSW From Splitting and Fragmentation to Healing and Integration
Spencer Eth, MD Trauma – Around the World and Across the Lifespan
View program:  www.ujcnj.org/page.html?ArticleID=160125&page=3
To register online, go to www.ujcnj.org/page.html?articleid=160125
For more information, e-mail holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or call 973-929-3194.
Council of Holocaust Educators Fifth Annual Conference
The Persistence of Genocide: A Century of Human Destruction
December 6 - 7, 2007
Brookdale Community College
765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ
For details and registration forms, see www.che-nj.org or www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/12060707chec.pdf.
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

 UPCOMING WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS

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)
The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond The Kindertransport
A Memoir of Music, Love & Survival
November 11th, 12:00 PM
National Council of Jewish Women, 4700 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Canada
Free teachers seminar. For more information go to www.holdontoyourmusic.org. RSVP to Hannah Schwartz, 416-635-2883 ext. 153 or hschwartz@ujafed.org
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
GSI’s West Coast Conference – Within-a-Conference
December 14, 15, and 16, 2007
Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
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 unique and prestigious seminar in English is intended for educators working in Jewish day schools and will be held at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem. 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 will deal with interdisciplinary educational approaches and methodology. Click here for more information and to register
Teaching the Shoah and Antisemitism
International Seminar
Winter: January 6, 2008 - January 24, 2008
Summer: July 13, 2008 - July 31, 2008
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
This one of a kind seminar allows English speaking educators at the International School of Holocaust Study at Yad Vashem to take advantage of the numerous resources available at Yad Vashem: the library, museums, Valley of the Communities, the Hall of Names and other onsite resources. Click here for more information

KRISTALLNACHT COMMEMORATIONS

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, 3:30PM – Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
UJC MetroWest Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration: in the Wilf Memorial. For information email holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or call 973-929-3194.
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 8, 2007, 7:00PM – Anshe Emet Synagogue, 3751 North Broadway, Chicago, IL
Kristallnacht Commemoration: The Turning Point featuring Dr. Michael Berenbaum, renowned Holocaust Scholar and co-consultant for the permanent exhibition in the new Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. RSVP to hrosen@hmfi.org
November 8, 2007, 8:30PM – Zinman Hall, Boca Raton, FL
Kristallnacht Film Forum 2007: The Wandering Jew, The first American feature film to depict the situation of the Jews in Nazi Germany. Yiddish with subtitles. Tickets are $10 and support the March of the Living (MOL) Scholarship fund. For more information: justinp@bocafed.org or 562-852-3308.
November 10, 2007, 8:30PM – Mizner Park, Boca Raton, FL
Kristallnacht Film Forum 2007: The Richie Boys, the story of a group of young men who fled Nazi Germany and returned to Europe as US soldiers after intelligence training at Camp Ritchie, MD. Tickets are $10 and support the MOL (March of the Living) Scholarship fund. For more information: justinp@bocafed.org or 562-852-3308
November 11, 2007, 1:00PM – Mizner Park, Boca Raton, FL
Kristallnacht Film Forum 2007: Partisans of Vilna, the story of the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania, during World War II using rare archival film footage and contemporary interviews with partisan survivors. Tickets are $10 and support the MOL (March of the Living) Scholarship fund. For more information: justinp@bocafed.org or 562-852-3308
November 11, 2007, 3:00PM – JCC of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD
Kristallnacht commemoration: with speaker Michael Haley-Goldman from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. For more information: etfinder@juno.com.
November 11, 2007, 4:00PM – Mizner Park, Boca Raton, FL
Kristallnacht Film Forum 2007: Dear Mr. Waldman, the story of an Israeli boy who wants to make his parents happy and compensate for the grief and loss they had suffered in the Holocaust. Tickets are $10 and support the March of the Living Scholarship fund. For more information: justinp@bocafed.org or 562-852-3308
November 11, 2007, 7:00PM – Mizner Park, Boca Raton, FL
Kristallnacht Film Forum 2007: The Ladies Tailor, chronicling the last twenty-four hours in the lives of a Jewish tailor and his family just prior to their deportation and execution at Babi Yar. Russian with subtitles. Tickets are $10 and support the March of the Living Scholarship fund. For more information: justinp@bocafed.org or 562-852-3308
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.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Now – November 17, 2007, show times vary—108 East Street, Annapolis, MD
Play: Kindertransport by Diane Samuels, presented by The Colonial Players of Annapolis. $25 for adults, $15 seniors 65+ & students. For show times and ticket information: (410) 268-7373.
Now - Nov. 22, 2007– Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond, VA
Exhibit: Jehovah's Witnesses: Faith Under Fire, created by the Arnold-Liebster Foundation, consisting of text and photo panels that feature an original concentration camp letter written by a Jehovah's Witness inmate. Jehovah's Witnesses refused to conform to the Nazi ideology of hate and suffered in Nazi camps for their belief in nonviolence. For more information: www.va-holocaust.com
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 - November 30, 2007 – Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus, Columbus, OH
Exhibit: Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps, a compelling collection of rare Holocaust-era letters and photographs from the collections of The New York Public Library’s Dorot Jewish Division. For more information 614-559-6233 or mbutter@columbusjcc.org or www.letterstosala.org
Now - 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.
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 - Dec. 30, 2007 – Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond, VA
Exhibit: The Old Wooden Synagogues of Lithuania: An Artist’s Perspective, by Joyce Ellen Weinstein. The exhibit includes photographs, original art, history, documentation and memories of villagers. For more information: www.va-holocaust.com
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
Exhibit: How Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia and Extermination provides provocative historical documentation of the role played by scientists, physicians and government officials at the six "euthanasia" centers where they murdered thousands of Germany's most vulnerable citizens.
For more information: www.hmh.org/medethics
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 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/
November 1, 2007 – Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
Opening of new exhibit about Muslim Righteous Among the Nations from Albania: Besa: A Code of Honor, a collection of photographs by American photographer Norman Gersham, accompanied by short texts. For more information: www.yadvashem.org.
November 1, 2007. 7-9 PM – 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 3, 2007, 4:30PM – East Wing, National Gallery, Washington, DC
Film program including the work in progress: Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg by Aviva Kempner. For more information: gsi@genshoah.org.
November 4, 2007, 1:00 PM – Kupferberg Center, Queensboro Community College, Bayside, NY
Film: The Passion of Sister Rose. Remarks by Barbara Wind, Director, Holocaust Council of MetroWest. For more information, 718 281-5770 or hrc@qcc.cuny.edu.
November 4, 2007, 1:00PM – Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers NJ Jewish Film Festival: The Rape of Europa (www.rapeofeuropa.com). Remarks by Lynn H. Nicholas, author of The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War. For more information: 732 9324166 or rujff@rci.rutgers.edu, tickets and full schedule at http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu.
November 4, 2007, 2:00 – 5:00PM – 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, 4:00PM – Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers NJ Jewish Film Festival: Just an Ordinary Jew, a film that explores the complexities of German-Jewish identity. Remarks by Professor Michael Levine, Department of German, Rutgers University. For more information, 732 9324166 or rujff@rci.rutgers.edu, tickets and full schedule: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu.
November 4 2007. 7-9PM – 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, 7:30PM – 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 - 8:00PM – 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 6, 2007, 7:00PM – Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers NJ Jewish Film Festival: The Rape of Europa (www.rapeofeuropa.com). Remarks by Noam Elcott, Department of Art History, Princeton University. For more information, 732 9324166 or rujff@rci.rutgers.edu, tickets and full schedule: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu.
November 7, 2007, 7 – 9PM – Barnes and Noble, 380 Walt Whitman Rd, Huntington Station, NY
S. Hanala Stadner will be reading from and signing her memoir about growing up, My Parents Went Through The Holocaust and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt. For more information: call Sophia at 818-404-8185
November 7, 2007, 7:30PM – 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, 7:30PM – 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, 7:30PM – 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, 3:30PM – Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
UJC MetroWest Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration: in the Wilf Memorial. For information email holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or call 973-929-3194.
November 8, 2007, 6:30PM – 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 8, 2007, 7:00PM – Anshe Emet Synagogue, 3751 North Broadway, Chicago, IL
Kristallnacht Commemoration: The Turning Point featuring Dr. Michael Berenbaum, renowned Holocaust Scholar and co-consultant for the permanent exhibition in the new Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. RSVP to hrosen@hmfi.org
November 8, 2007, 7:000PM – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Lecture: Christian Complicity? Changing Views on the German Churches and the Holocaust with Professor Robert P. Ericksen. For more information: www.ushmm.org
November 8, 2007, 8:30PM – Zinman Hall, Boca Raton, FL
Kristallnacht Film Forum 2007: The Wandering Jew, The first American feature film to depict the situation of the Jews in Nazi Germany. Yiddish with subtitles. Tickets are $10 and support the March of the Living (MOL) Scholarship fund. For more information: justinp@bocafed.org or 562-852-3308.
November 9, 2007 - June 15, 2008– Battleship New Jersey, Camden, NJ
Exhibit: Holocaust & Genocide: The Betrayal of Humanity, a multimedia journey through the history of the Holocaust and its lasting legacy today. For more information, www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/110907_061508betrayal.pdf
November 9, 2007, 1:00PM – 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 9, 2007, 6:00PM – Borders, 461 Park Ave, New York, NY
S. Hanala Stadner will be reading from and signing her memoir about growing up, My Parents Went Through The Holocaust and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt. For more information: call Sophia at 818-404-8185.
November 9, 2007, 8:00PM – Temple Beth Am, Springfield, NJ
Barbara Wind, director of the Holocaust Council of MetroWest, will discuss Why It’s Not 1938 Again. For more information: call 973-376-0539.
November 9, 2007, 8:00PM – Temple Emanu-El of West Essex, Livingston, NJ
Hanna Keselman, a holocaust survivor, will speak about her journey out of Germany. Listen to her story about her escape from Germany to France and eventually to Italy. For more information: Wendy Lubin, holocaust@emanuel.org
November 10, 2007, 8:30PM – Mizner Park, Boca Raton, FL
Kristallnacht Film Forum 2007: The Richie Boys, the story of a group of young men who fled Nazi Germany and returned to Europe as US soldiers after intelligence training at Camp Ritchie, MD. Tickets are $10 and support the MOL (March of the Living) Scholarship fund. For more information: justinp@bocafed.org or 562-852-3308
November 11, 2007, 12:15PM – Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers NJ Jewish Film Festival: Out of Faith, a film about conflicts over intermarriage in a survivor family. Remarks by Dr. Kerry M. Olitzky, Executive Director, Jewish Outreach Institute. For more information, 732 9324166 or rujff@rci.rutgers.edu, tickets and full schedule: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu.
November 11, 2007, 1:00PM – Mizner Park, Boca Raton, FL
Kristallnacht Film Forum 2007: Partisans of Vilna, the story of the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania, during World War II using rare archival film footage and contemporary interviews with partisan survivors. Tickets are $10 and support the MOL (March of the Living) Scholarship fund. For more information: justinp@bocafed.org or 562-852-3308
November 11, 2007, 3:00PM – 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 856-424-4444 x-108
November 11, 2007, 3:00PM – JCC of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD
Kristallnacht commemoration: with speaker Michael Haley-Goldman from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. For more information: etfinder@juno.com.
November 11, 2007, 4:00PM – Mizner Park, Boca Raton, FL
Kristallnacht Film Forum 2007: Dear Mr. Waldman, the story of an Israeli boy who wants to make his parents happy and compensate for the grief and loss they had suffered in the Holocaust. Tickets are $10 and support the March of the Living Scholarship fund. For more information: justinp@bocafed.org or 562-852-3308
November 11, 2007, 7:00PM – Mizner Park, Boca Raton, FL
Kristallnacht Film Forum 2007: The Ladies Tailor, chronicling the last twenty-four hours in the lives of a Jewish tailor and his family just prior to their deportation and execution at Babi Yar. Russian with subtitles. Tickets are $10 and support the March of the Living Scholarship fund. For more information: justinp@bocafed.org or 562-852-3308
November 12, 2007, 7:00PM – 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: Remembering the Kindertransports. Light refreshments will follow. RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
November 12, 2007, 7 - 9PM – Barnes and Noble, 240 East 86th Street, New York, NY
S. Hanala Stadner will be reading from and signing her memoir about growing up, My Parents Went Through The Holocaust and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt. For more information: call Sophia at 818-404-8185
November 13, 2007, 6:00PM – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
The Legacy of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial to American Bioethics and Human Rights with guest speaker George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H., Advanced registration is required. For information on CME and CNE credits for medical professionals, visit www.utcme.net. Please visit www.hmh.org/medethics for information on viewing the lecture via the Web or at an off-site location.
November 13, 2007, 7:00 PM (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, 7:00PM – 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 13, 2007, 7:00PM – Chapman Auditorium, Chapman University, Orange, CA
They Were My Neighbors: Jewish Survivors and Their Rescuers in the Holocaust with guest speaker Douglas Greenberg, Executive Director of the Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, USC. For information: www.chapman.edu/holocausteducation
November 14, 2007, 7:00PM – 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, 8:30AM - 1: 30PM – 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, 10:30AM - 12 noon ET – Kick-off Videoconference Event with Gerda Weissmann Klein
Join us for an inspiring project and hear Gerda Klein's story. This project, called STAND UP. SPEAK OUT. LEND A HAND involves students looking critically at the Holocaust and then turning that critical lens on social issues in their own communities. March 14, 2008, 10:30AM - 12 noon ET students have an opportunity to again meet with Gerda Klein via videoconference to share their service projects in order to help make this a more caring world. More information / registration: http://www.magpi.net/programs/klein.html
November 15, 2007, 12:00PM – Shaary Tefila, Bedford, NY
Lunch and Learn: with Ann Kirschner who will discuss her book, SALA’S GIFT. For more information: www.salasgift.com or info@salasgift.com
November 15, 2007, 7:00PM – 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, 2007,7:00 PM – Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
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 20, 2007, 12 noon – Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of MetroWest: Lunch and Learn with survivor Chanock Eyal, one of the Teheran children. Please bring a dairy lunch, beverage and cookies provided. RSVP and information: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
November 20, 2007, 6:00PM – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Power for Life or Power for Death? How and Why Science and Religion Can Work Together for Life After the Holocaust with Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Ph.D., a co-founder of Birthright Israel and the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education. Advanced registration is required. For information on CME and CNE credits for medical professionals attending this program, visit www.utcme.net. For more information on viewing the lecture via the Web or at an off-site location: www.hmh.org/medethics
November 20, 2007, 6:00PM – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
John M. Hass, Ph.D, STI., M Div, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, will discuss how the Catholic Church has dealt with the medical practices of the Holocaust and how they have worked to provide dignity and equality in today’s medical ethics in Science, Medicine and Religion after the Holocaust. For more: www.hmh.org/medethics
November 26, 2007, 7:50PM – Wilkins Theatre, Kean University, Union, NJ
Kean Holocaust Resource Center presents Dr. Deborah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University and noted author. Free. For more information, 908 737-4660 or keanhrc@kean.edu
November 27, 2007, 6:00PM – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Kathryn L. Tucker, director of legal affairs for Compassion & Choices, will present Physician Aid in Dying – When and Why Should This Option be Available? What Happens When Aid in Dying is Legal?
Wesley Smith, an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, will present Is Physician-Assisted Suicide Ever Permissible? For more: www.hmh.org/medethics
November 28, 2007, 7:00PM – 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
November 29, 2007, 7:00PM – Tuttleman Library, Gratz College, Melrose Park, PA
Paper Clips: with Sandra Roberts, the teacher who began the project, and two of her students from Whitwell Middle School in Tennessee. Act 48 credits available. $25 per person. For more information: www.gratz.edu
December 2, 2007, 2:00PM – Borders Bookstore, Rockville Pike, Kensington, MD
S. Hanala Stadner will be reading from and signing her memoir about growing up, My Parents Went Through The Holocaust and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt. For more information: etfinder@juno.com
December 2, 2007, 2:00PM – Temple Judeah Mizpah, Niles Center Road, Skokie, IL
Hanukah party featuring the Junior Maxwell Street Klezmer Orchestra. Refreshments. All Holocaust survivors and their families are invited. For more: tzippy_chs@sbcglobal.net
December 3, 2007, 12 noon – Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of MetroWest: Lunch and Learn with survivor Hanna Keselman, hidden child. Please bring a dairy lunch; beverage and cookies provided. RSVP and information, holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194
December 3, 2007, 6:30PM – Old town Theater, Alexandria, VA
Film: The Cemetery Club. The film unravels the jagged, intense, almost impossible relationship between two extremely different women who, each bereaved of the man she loved, remain bound together by history and fate. The film explores the conflicts between these women and the family secrets that haunt them. The result is a poignant, intimate, portrait of the Holocaust generation. Co-sponsored by the Israeli embassy and The Generation After. For information: www.wjff.org
December 8, 2007, 6:30PM – Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond, VA
Celebrate 10 years of teaching “Tolerance through Education” at the Virginia Holocaust Museum’s Ten Year Anniversary Celebration & Hanukkah Party. Fees. For more information: call the Museum at 804.257.5400 x-243 or on-line at www.va-holocaust.com.
December 9, 2007, 11AM - 1:00PM – Mizner Court South Party Room, 140 SE 5th Ave., Boca Raton, FL
NEXT GENERATIONS Bagels and Books: The German Money with facilitator: Greta Brewer. Cost: $5 members - $10 non-members payable at door. For more: www.nextgenerations.org
December 10, 2007, 7:00PM – Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of MetroWest From Memory to History: Faces and Voices of the Holocaust film series: Partisans of Vilna, the story of the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania using rare archival film footage and contemporary interviews with partisan survivors. Light refreshments will follow. RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
December 18, 2007, 12 noon – Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of MetroWest: Lunch and Learn liberator Alan Moskin. Please bring a dairy lunch; beverage and cookies provided. RSVP and information, holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194
December 22, 2007 - February 2, 2008 – Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit, Schindler. For more information: www.ushmm.org
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January 6, 2008, 2:30PM – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
Film: The Truce. Based upon Primo Levi's autobiography The Reawakening, this film follows Levi on his journey from Auschwitz back to Italy after liberation. Post-screening discussion: with actor John Turturro and Budd Mishkin. For information: www.mjhnyc.org. For tickets, call (646) 437-4202.
January 12 - April 6, 2008 – Kansas Sports Hall of Fame, Wichita, KS
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit, Nazi Olympics. For more information: www.ushmm.org.
January 27, 2008 – UN Headquarter, New York, NY
The photographic exhibit Besa: A Code of Honor, on Muslim Righteous Among the Nations from Albania, will be on display for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. For more information: www.yadvashem.org.

FYI: For your information

FYI…   Congratulations on the 25th anniversary of the Fortunoff Video Archive. The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, founded in 1982, is dedicated to the recording, collection and preservation of videotaped oral testimonies of survivors and witnesses. The Archive holds more than 4,400 testimonies comprising over 12,000 hours of videotape, recorded in cooperation with 37 affiliate projects in North America, South America, Europe, Israel, and the former Soviet Union. The Archive advises students, scholars, museums, and educational associations; catalogs its testimonies to make them intellectually accessible; and loans programs of testimony excerpts to educators, schools, museums, and community groups. www.library.yale.edu/testimonies
FYI…   Congratulations to Holocaust survivor Flora Singer for being honored as the Citizen of the Year by the Potomac (Maryland) Chamber of Commerce.
FYI…   Holocaust Museum Houston Marks 1 Millionth Visitor with Acquisition of Rare Holocaust-Era Artifact: Danish Rescue Boat to Tell the Story of Heroes Who Risked Their Own Lives to Save Others from the Nazis. For more: www.hmh.org/article.asp?id=164
FYI...  Articles in the media
German Holocaust Archive to Be Made Public
www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2846406,00.html
Survivors in Israel say new deal corrects historical injustice
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20071023survivorsisrael.html
Holocaust survivors urge right to sue
www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/nation/epaper/2007/10/04/a7a_holocaust_1004.html
Holocaust survivors fight insurers for restitution www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/10/23/m1a_insurance_1023.html
Holocaust insurance bill passes committee
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104850.html
House Bill Would Allow Survivors To Sue
www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c37_a712/News/National.html
Appeals Court Extends Time for Suit on Holocaust Insurance Payments
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/business/worldbusiness/03insure.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Congressional fight on for survivor funds
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104493.html
Israeli envoy worried about Germany
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104506.html
Holocaust museum opens at Belsen
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7066733.stm
Documentation center opens at Bergen-Belsen
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104944.html
Azrieli Foundation launches series of Holocaust memoirs
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1192380553624
Monsters at play
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1192380561948
Colorado cable channel considers Holocaust denial program
www.postindependent.com/article/20071012/VALLEYNEWS/110120054
Amsterdam Journal: A New Wave of Support for Anne Frank's Ailing Tree
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/world/europe/02tree.html?_r=1&ex=1191988800&en=43e896418c6f439b&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin
Ex-Nazi prison guard faces deportation from U.S.
www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0132520820071001
Nazi declassification board recommends access to records
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20071001naziclassify.html
A Burden Worth Bearing
http://barnardbulletin.com/BarnardBulletin/htdocs/modules/news/article.php?storyid=16
Agnes Daluge, 79, was a young spy in WWII
www.startribune.com/466/story/1451113.html
Memory is also about justice
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1192380626052
Scholar unearths previously unknown Primo Levi text at Yad Vashem
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/909313.html
A Priest Methodically Reveals Ukrainian Jews’ Fate
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/06/world/europe/06priest.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Survivors cry for end to genocide
www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1036498
Genocide survivors bring cause to Boston
www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1036617
Finding - or erasing - Ukraine's Jews?
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/912058.html
Brit who saved Jews from Nazis receives top Czech military decoration
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1191257264125
Czech extremists to postpone their march through Jewish quarter
www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=274541
Poland honors righteous gentiles
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104576.html
Sir Nicholas Winton and the human cost of "peace for our time"
www.radio.cz/en/article/95800
Book fair accused of Holocaust denial
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104571.html
Belarus Jews commemorate ghetto raid
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104763.html
Dutch Holocaust claim begs question: Forced sale or voluntary art dealing?
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20071009dutchartrestitution.html
3 Win Nobel in Medicine for Gene Technology
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/science/09nobel.html?ex=1192766400&en=d3895f0b8010f9f8&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Temporary Foster Father Adopts Child Into Family
www.nbc4.com/wednesdayschild/14313225/detail.html
House Panel Raises Furor on Armenian Genocide
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/washington/11prexy.html?_r=1&ex=1192766400&en=0eeeaf456002f815&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin
Turks Angry Over House Armenian Genocide Vote
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/world/europe/12turkey.html?_r=1&ex=1192766400&en=f33ce4d3cc4e0310&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin
Oxford society invites Irving
/www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104665.html
Nazism had good points, some Germans say
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104727.html
Romney conducted 'baptisms for the dead'
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104729.html
Ramon diary to be displayed
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104743.html
Winds of change in Holocaust Museum
www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.museum16oct16,0,5175331.story
Heir sues for Nazi-looted art
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104830.html
Jewish captain guides USS Truman aircraft carrier
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380621118&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Court lets Neo-Nazis march in Prague
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104832.html
Irving threatens to sue Jewish paper
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104840.html
Lauder downplays role in restituting Klimt work
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20071023lauderklimt.html
Lawyer convicted of embezzling Holocaust claims
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104879.html
Grapevine: The Lau dynasty
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1192380633415
ADL Calls On Governor Huckabee To Refrain From Using Holocaust Imagery
www.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/5155_52.htm
'Righteous' Dutch family honored
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1192380656527
Essen Jews to boycott Kristallnacht ceremony
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104953.html
Wiesenthal Center wants Nazi singer shunned
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104973.html
Terrorism led Portman into activism (note: she is a granddaughter of survivors)
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104956.html
A Well-Spoken Friend
www.hadassah.org/pageframe.asp?section=news&page=per.html&header=per&size=50
FYI…   to watch the video clip: "Neo-Nazi groups have been operating in Israel for years" www.israelnationalnews.com/TV/?act=one&id=2084 (Click on the story with the man with the raised arm.)
FYI…   to watch the video entitled Memories about Holocaust remembrance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdk0qcsUvNU&eurl=http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/inc_middlepart.php
FYI…   The Institute for International Affairs of B’nai Brith Canada is urgently seeking survivors of the Trawniki and Poniatowa concentration camps. If you know of anyone who was detained at one of these camps between April 1943- 1944, please contact 1-800-892-2624.
FYI…   Action Reconciliation Service for Peace
The recognition of German guilt for the time from 1933 to 1945 was the starting point for Action Reconciliation. Our proclamation states: “We Germans began the Second World War and ...we are guilty for bringing immeasurable suffering to mankind. Germans murdered millions of Jews in outrageous rebellion against God. Those of us, who did not want annihilation, did not do enough to prevent it. For this reason, we are still not at peace – there has not been true reconciliation... We are requesting all peoples who suffered violence at our hands to allow us to perform good deeds in their countries... to carry out this symbol of reconciliation.” www.kki.net.pl/~museum/action.htm, and www.asf-ev.de/en/about_us
FYI…    Foehrenwald Displaced Person Camp Reunion, Spring 2008 Between 1945 and 1957 ten thousands of survivors mainly from Eastern Europe stayed, lived and worked for a shorter or longer 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" which will 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 join the reunion to contact Dr. Rachel Salamander literaturhandlung@t-online.de
FYI…    Various Holocaust organizations / institutions have online newsletters. These are some: Midwest Center for Holocaust Education: http://mchekc.org/PDFFiles/Newsletters/Fall2007Newsletter.pdf
. Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: www.chgs.umn.edu/news/newsletter.html.
Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center: http://redcross-cmd.org/Chapter/tracingnewsoct.htm
FYI…    The Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center has developed an on-line Holocaust Curriculum. This curriculum guide was developed by a group of master teachers who have studied and taught the Holocaust in the context of history and the language arts. For more information: www.holocausteducationctr.org, or 914-696-0738
FYI…    Burlington County College Scholars Academy in Pemberton, NJ is offering free Holocaust Studies Classes from November 7 - December 12, 2007. For course listings and more information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/11071212bcc.pdf
FYI…    for those whose family owned property in Poland or in any East European country, Legacy is an organization specializing in retrieving assets lost due to historical, political, and economic changes in the region. . www.polishlegacy.org/index2.html
FYI…    From the Polish-Israeli Friendship: New Generation Initiative… We believe that Polish – Jewish reconciliation will be done only by the third generation after the Holocaust and not earlier. Therefore we wish to show that we remember, referring to the words said by Jews before their deaths, “Don't forget us.”

Czestochowa, Jewish Czenstochov, like many other Polish towns and cities with significant pre-war Jewish populations, has become a kind of city of ghosts. There are no traces of Jewish presence, no information of their fate. We hope through our activities to breathe an inspiring wind into the old walls and thus to restore the memory of the other cultural tradition of this town, once so flourishing, as well as of its inhabitants, who contributed to its development. To learn more: agaspirit@gmail.com
FYI…    Spurred by interest generated by the Museum’s recent exhibit “Shanghai: A Refuge During the Holocaust," Holocaust Museum Houston is organizing a study trip to China. The trip will depart Houston on March 29, 2008 and return on April 11, 2008. Visits are planned to historic and contemporary sites in Beijing, Tianjin, Harbin, Xi’an and Shanghai, with a particular focus on the Jewish experience in China. The tour, including airfare from Houston is $4,615 per person. A deposit of $500 per person must be received by November 12, 2007, with the balance due by January 10, 2008. For further information: www.hmh.org/page.asp?id=29
FYI…    The Jewish-Christian Holocaust Journey to France in July 2008 will support French Jewish-owned businesses while educating participants in the history of Jewish life over the past 2,000 years emphasizing the Holocaust years. Educational highlights include a visit to Le Chambon sur Lignons, a town whose rescue of Jews was documented in the film Weapons of the Spirit, and Drancy Concentration Camp. For information, please contact Anne Lukas, (Second Generation Cleveland, Ohio) at (216) 570-3222 or Alukas@ursuline.edu
FYI…    A Compassionate Journey to Berlin, Germany, May 13-20, 2008: with Lisa and Brian Berman. This Jewish-German reconciliation program is a heart opening delegation and offers training in Compassionate Listening, tours of memorial sites, and Jewish life in Berlin today. The delegation will be a small group, where Jewish and German participants will work together towards reconciliation and healing. For additional information go to: www.bermanhealingarts.com/CompassionateJourney.htm or call (360) 697-2288.
FYI…    to learn more about the Zachor Society http://www.zachorsociety.org
FYI…    The Galicia Jewish Museum Newsletter is online: www.galiciajewishmuseum.org
FYI…    searching…  Katy Klein was liberated from Auschwitz, the sole survivor of her family. She was sent by the "Joint" to Kibbutz Yagur in 1947, where she was given the Hebrew name Karmela, and cared for a group of younger, orphaned, survivors. They were "her children" and she would love to know what happened to them and where they are now. She no longer remembers any names, but she has some photos. Katy would appreciate any information regarding the people and the events mentioned, please send it to: katy_kleins_children@hotmail.com
FYI…    Seeking…  Maria Polanowicz Segal is seeking family members from Okuniew and Warsaw, Poland. The family names are Polanowicz and Rymerman. e-mail: Maria Segal, smarisha2003@yahoo.com
FYI…    For information on the Amsterdam Jewish Film Festival: www.joodsfilmfestival.nl. Note: this is not in English.
FYI…    Save the date: January 7-9, 2009.
Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution: Third international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at the Imperial War Museum, London, January 7-9, 2009. The conference is being organised by Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum, London, David Cesarani, Royal Holloway, University of London, Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck College London, Johannes-Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton. For information on the call for papers for this conference: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk
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