Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
December 2007
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Dear Members and Friends,

The Red Cross International Tracing Service will now open the doors to the Bad Arolsen Holocaust archive to the public. All eleven of the member countries of the International Commission for the International Tracing Center filed ratification papers with the German Foreign Ministry. We thank all of you who wrote letters and called the various embassies to help move this process along. GSI is proud to have played a role in making this a reality.

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. It is not too late to sign up and we would love to have you join us! For more information contact Klara Firestone: kfire413@aol.com or visit www.celebrationofthegenerations.com. Time is short so sign up now.

Congratulations to the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust on the success of their conference in Jerusalem. In 2008 their annual conference will be held in November in the Washington, DC area and GSI will keep you posted on dates and registration.

GSI is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization and we do not charge dues or solicit any money for ourselves. We annually remind our members to make a donation to some Holocaust-related organization. There are many organizations, including local Jewish Social Service agencies, which help survivors directly. You can earmark your contribution to be used for survivors. Also, there are institutions dedicated to commemoration, remembrance and education. As you consider your end-of-the-year donations, please budget in something. If everyone chipped in a little, it would make a big difference.

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
A hearing on the Holocaust Era Insurance Act of 2007 is scheduled for December 11, 2007. Note that the legislation in the USA can have an impact on insurance claims for survivors in other countries. If insurance companies are forced to make public the names of their policyholders that would benefit survivors and heirs worldwide. To read the letter sent by members of GSI to Congressman Barney Frank and members of the House Financial Services Committee: www.genshoah.org/gsi_to_RepMA.pdf.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
From the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany
Effective immediately, you can fill out an online trace request form and send it to us from our website, or you can download the form and send it to us by post / mail.
Tracing inquiry for reuniting persons:
www.its-arolsen.org/en/key_activities/tracing_service/application_forms/online_form/application_tracing_request/index.html Information on detention/ employment/ stay:
www.its-arolsen.org/en/key_activities/tracing_service/application_forms/online_form/application_for_information/index.html

From Yad Vashem:
A Special Edition of the Yad Vashem newsletter is available online:
www1.yadvashem.org/newsletter/november2007/newsletter_november2007.html?WT.mc_ev=EmailOpen

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum makes USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s
Holocaust Survivor and Witness Testimonies available to visitors
The world’s largest collection of visual Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies, The University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive, is now available to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum visitors in Washington, DC. More than 90 percent of the collection is comprised of testimonies of Jewish survivors; however, other victims of Nazis as well as liberators, liberation witnesses, and rescuers and aid providers are also represented in the collection. Museum staff and visitors have access to the central archive via an Internet2 connection. The testimonies are accessible through computer terminals in the Museum’s Library and Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors. While all of the videos are not immediately available to end users, any testimony can be delivered promptly—usually within forty-eight hours. Researchers who wish to ensure that a specific video will be available upon arrival at the Museum can call the Museum’s Library at 202-479-9717 in advance of their visit. For more information about the US Holocaust Memorial Museum:www.ushmm.org and for more information about the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education: www.college.usc.edu/vhi

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
(Formerly known as the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation) now has the entire Visual History Archive available to students, scholars, educators, survivors and their families, and the general public at 12 institutions and universities around the world: the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA; Duke University in Durham, NC; Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL; North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC; Rice University in Houston, TX; the University of California, San Diego, CA; the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI; the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC; Freie Universität Berlin in Germany; Monash University in Melbourne, Australia; and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. For more information about the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, log on to www.college.usc.edu/vhi.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Launches New Website
As part of the expansion of its educational work, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, home to the largest video archive of testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses, has redesigned its website and made new resources available online.

Between 1994 and 1999, the Institute recorded nearly 52,000 testimonies in 56 countries and 32 languages. The interviewees included Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah’s Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti survivors (Gypsy), survivors of Eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants. The Institute is dedicated to overcoming prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry—and the suffering they cause—through the educational use of the visual history testimonies, and the new website was launched in support of this mission.

Visitors to the site will find numerous resources geared toward specific audiences. For those who wish to view clips of testimony, the Online Testimony Viewer provides quick access to testimony clips organized by theme. Educators will find useful information on documentary films and other educational products as well as online exhibits, classroom lessons, and exercises that are ready to use and free of charge. There is a new section devoted entirely to educational products and lessons in languages other than English, and an interactive map of sites around the world that offer access to the Institute’s complete archive or a limited collection of testimonies.

To explore everything the new USC Shoah Foundation Institute website has to offer, log on to www.college.usc.edu/vhi.

HSF-USA, Holocaust Survivors Foundation-USA, has a new website:
http://home.comcast.net/~hsf-usa

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

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

2008 International Conference on Holocaust Education: Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel; Click here for more information on call for papers. For detailed information on topics, fees and registration, visit our website at www.yadvashem.org or call Ephraim Kaye at +972-2-644-3638

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS

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

From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Summer Research Workshop Competition 2008
The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invites proposals from workshop coordinators to conduct two-week research workshops at the Museum from June through August 2008. Proposals are welcome from scholars in all relevant academic disciplines. Awards are granted on a competitive basis. Workshops consist of two weeks of intensive discussion, culminating in a public presentation of the group’s results. For application guidelines, visit www.ushmm.org/research/center/seminars/#workshop. Applications must be postmarked no later than January 31, 2008. Applications and questions should be addressed to: Dr. Suzanne Brown-Fleming, (Tel: 202-318-7802; Fax: 202-479-9726); sbrown-fleming@ushmm.org).

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
International Scholarly Workshop
Studying Antisemitism in the 21st Century:
Manifestations, Implications, Consequences:
July 14 - July 25, 2008
US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
The objectives of this workshop program are to explore (1) the most fruitful directions for new research about the history of anti-Semitism in order to ensure a firm foundation from which to address contemporary manifestations; (2) what we know and understand—or do not understand—about contemporary manifestations of antisemitism; (3) intellectual and campus-based manifestations of antisemitism as well as the media through which they are spread; and (4) the implications and consequences of unchecked antisemitism in intellectual discourse and potential responses to it within the scholarly community. For application guidelines, visit www.ushmm.org/research/center/seminars/#workshop.

UPCOMING EVENTS

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/

Now -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, http://www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/110907_061508betrayal.pdf

December 2, 2007, noon - 5:00 p.m. – Hyde Park Open Studios, 65 Sprague St. #10, Boston, MA: Join 2G artist Fay Grajower as she welcomes people to her studio: www.grajowerstudio.com

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 4, 2007, 1:30 – 5:00 p.m. – St. Mary's Seminary & Ecumenical Institute of Theology, Baltimore, MD: Symposium: The Catholic Church's Historical Relationship with Jews and Judaism before, during and after the Shoah and the on-going interfaith dialogue. The featured speaker is Sister Gemma Del Duca, S.C., Founder and Co-Director of the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, Seton Hill University and Israel. No fee. Registration is required. MSDE credit and Religious Education "clock hours" may be awarded upon completion of a required project. For more information: Jeanette Parmigiani, 410-542-4850 or (jparmigiani@baltjc.org)

December 6, 2007, 16:00 – Sala Rubino, Palazzo dei Congressi, Rome, ITALY: Lecture/concert featuring the music of the concentration camps. For more information: bancadellamemoria@fastwebnet.it.

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, 6:30 p.m. – Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA: Once Upon a Time , a play by Elie Wiesel in its American premiere. Ticket Reservations: 617.353.8725. For inquiries: e.wieselplay@gmail.com, http://once-upon-the-play.com

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 10, 2007, 7 - 8:30 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: Founding the Field of Holocaust Studies: The Scholarship of Raul Hilberg. This panel highlights the scholarly legacy of Raul Hilberg, the importance of his work for future generations of Holocaust scholars, and the major challenges for the field in the 21st century. Speakers include Christopher Browning, Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, Juergen Matthaeus, and Alvin Rosenfeld. For more information: www.ushmm.org

December 13, 2007, 7:30 p.m. – Reid Castle, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY: Lecture: They Spoke Out: American Voices of Courage Against The Holocaust with speaker Dr. Rafael Medoff, Executive Director, David Wyman Institute. For more information contact the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center, 914-696-0738 or MWY1220@aol.com.

December 16, 2007, 2:30 p.m. – Writers Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Chevy Chase, MD: Holocaust Survivor Louis Maier will read from and discuss his new book From the Golden Gate to the Black Forest: The Odyssey of A New American in Search of his Parents' Fate. A reception will follow the presentation. For more information: 301-654-8665.

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 18, 2007, 8:00 p.m. – JCC of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD: Book signing and discussion of Richard S. Hollander’s Every Day Lasts a Year: A Jewish Family’s Correspondence from Poland . After the tragic death of his parents, Mr. Hollander discovered letters from a family he never knew. The letters were written to his father Joseph from his family in Cracow, Poland between November 1939 and December 1941. At the same time, Joseph was fighting the U.S. government to avoid deportation and death. RSVP required: bburke@jcouncil.org or (301) 770-0881.

December 19, 2007, 1 - 2:30 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: Program: Judéo-Espagnol and the Holocaust: A Discussion with Haïm-Vidal Sephiha This program addresses the little understood and under-researched fate of the Judéo-Spanish community through the lens of the experience of Auschwitz survivor Haïm-Vidal Sephiha, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Université Paris IV-Sorbonne and President of Judéo-Espagnol a Auschwitz in Paris. For more: www.ushmm.org

December 20, 2007, 7-8:30 p.m. – The Living Room at Jewish Family Service of Bergen County, 1485 Teaneck Rd, Teaneck, NJ: Second-generation seminar and discussion group facilitated by Rabbi Amy Bolton: Relationships in Survivor Families. For questions or to register, please contact Laura at 201-837-9090 or email thelivingroom@jfsbergen.org

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

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 8, 2008, 4:00-6:00 pm – Lawrence High School Media Center, Lawrence Township, NJ: is a dramatic demonstration of the power of social situations and may provide some explanation to the behavior of the European masses, both persecutors and victims during WWII and more current events. Special guest speakers: Dr. Marvin Goldstein, Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Associate Director of the Koppelman Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center at Rider University and Nancy Hendrickson, School Psychologist, and Founder of the Center for Humanitarian and Affective Instruction at Lawrence Township Public Schools. For more information and to register contact: Nhendrickson@LTPS.org

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 13, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – Congregation Tikvat Israel, Baltimore Rd, Rockville, MD: Program: Nazi Hunters: Fact and Fiction with guest speakers Eli Rosenbaum, Director of the Office of Special Investigations at the US Department of Justice and Alan Elsner, 2G and author of The Nazi Hunter: A Novel. For more information: etfinder@juno.com.

January 13, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond, VA: Film: FORGIVING DR. MENGELE. Eva Kor and her twin sister were used as experimental subjects by Dr. Mengele. She survived and has come to terms with the past as is illustrated in the film. Mrs. Kor’s son, Alex, will speak at the screening. For more information: www.va-holocaust.com/events/default.asp

January 23, 2008, 6:30 p.m. – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY: Film: Samson. Jakob Gold, sentenced to prison for killing an anti-Semitic man in self-defense, is released when the Germans invade Poland. He soon finds himself imprisoned again — in the Warsaw Ghetto. In attempting to escape, Gold finds a new group of allies to fight against a common enemy. Post-screening discussion with Leonard Quart, professor emeritus, College of Staten Island, CUNY. Fees. For more: www.mjhnyc.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.

January 27, 2008 – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New: Film: Landscape After Battle . This is a love story between two young survivors, a Pole and a Jew, who struggle in the aftermath of the Holocaust to come to terms with their feelings of distrust and disorientation. This film powerfully captures the war's toll on youthful creativity and the human spirit. Post-screening discussion with Antony Polonsky, professor, Brandeis University. Fees. For more: www.mjhnyc.org

January 30, 2008, 6:30 p.m. – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY: Film: Korczak with introduction and post-screening discussion with Morris Dickstein, professor, CUNY Graduate Center. Korczak follows the final days of the legendary Polish educator, children's author, and pediatrician, Dr. Janusz Korczak, who courageously dedicated himself to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Fees. For more: www.mjhnyc.org

February 3, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY: Film: The Condemnation of Franciszek Klos, the story of a Polish policeman who aided the occupying Nazi soldiers in his village. In the powerful climax of the film, Klos must choose between his family's wishes and his loyalty to the party. Following the film, scholars, including Stuart Liebman, of Queens College/CUNY Graduate Center and Joanna Michlic of Lehigh University, will discuss screenwriter Andrzej Wajda's engagement with Jewish themes throughout the course of his career Fees. For more: www.mjhnyc.org

February 13 - March 26, 2008 –Frankenmuth Historical Museum, Frankenmuth, MI: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Schindler. For more information: www.ushmm.org

FYI: For your information

FYI… In the Name of the Victims is a new documentary film by Ilan Ziv
focusing on the Claims Conference and survivor poverty. It will debut in the US on Dec 9th via satellite broadcasts and web streaming. It will be on Directv and DISH systems throughout North America, and free internet access via streaming video anytime on the linktv website. For more information: www.linktv.org/victims
FYI… Yad Vashem invites you to take part
FYI… The Raoul Wallenberg International Foundation has asked
for help in their major project to document the legacy of Holocaust rescuer Raoul Wallenberg by interviewing people, hidden in Budapest from 1944 to 1945, who may have been helped by Wallenberg. The foundation has already interviewed children who were hidden in safe houses set up by Raoul Wallenberg and the Swedish legation. To learn more about this project and these particular interviews, please check: www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/news/testimonies-survival.4399.htm. If you wish to be interviewed or to give written testimony, please contact Adam Benjamin Esrig, The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, 34 East 67 St., 2nd floor, New York, NY 10065. Tel: 212-737-3275 Fax: 212-535-6262 e-mail: irwf@irwf.org. www.raoulwallenberg.net
FYI… The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
will administer the U.S. copy of the Bad Arolsen archive. Once the documents are formatted to the museum's computer system, the Museum will facilitate access to the documents for survivors and their families. The copy of the archives will also be a valuable source of information for researchers. The formatting process is now underway and is expected to take several months. For more information www.ushmm.org
FYI… The new direct link to the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia’s Holocaust programs web page is: www.jewishphilly.org/holocaust
FYI… for information on the Holocaust Museum Houston lecture series Medical Ethics and the Holocaust www.nodussolutions.com/MedicalEthics/OtherDisplay.aspx?uc=_LectureList
FYI... Articles in the media
Public can view Bad Arolsen archives www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105579.html
For Many Holocaust Survivors, a Final Struggle http://jscms.jrn.columbia.edu/cns/2007-10-30/schultz-perpetualsurvivors
Holocaust Survivors, Heirs Fight On for Compensation www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/24/AR2007112400612.html
Envoy lauds work of Holocaust commission washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=7907&TM=60256.75
House committee to hear from ICHEIC officials www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105205.html
Holocaust Groups Demand More Compensation from Germany www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,515984,00.html
Minister denies asking Germany for more Holocaust reparations www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/922632.html
Germany rejects request to reopen talks on reparations deal www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/925409.html
German minister: Eitan's proposal was a 'private initiative' www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/926316.html
Germany willing to talk anew on reparations www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20071119germanyreparations.html
German finance minister to visit Israel www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1195036613269
Germany says willing to discuss Holocaust survivors' pensions www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/924070.html
Germany won't reopen Holocaust reparation talks www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1195546692472
Credit where it was due www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380766019&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Israel seeks fresh Holocaust reparations deal with Germany www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/922252.html
Dutch Jews slam Germany over Shoah payment loophole www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/922208.html
Holocaust survivors in L.A. are still struggling www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=18565
Holocaust child survivors conference opens in J'lem www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1192380743415
Child Holocaust Survivors Meet in Israel http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i1qjfFYOYsy2z4I4gmK3sxRwWMFgD8SPM4300
Oral Tradition www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1192380766105
A debt that can't be paid with money www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/922758.html
Study: Jewish poverty rate in the U.S. higher than in Israel http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/924897.html
VIEWPOINT / Germany should pay as long as even one survivor lives http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/924497.html
More cemetery vandalism in Polish area www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105388.html
With new book, author tells story behind story of 'Schindler's List' www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20071106schindlerkeneally.html
Hannah Senesh remembered www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105167.html
Yellow star removed from Australian eBay www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105160.html
Out of the Attic, Family Memoirs With a Nazi Past http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB119439811745484656-lMyQjAxMDE3OTA0NzMwOTc4Wj.html
Fake Epidemic Saves a Village from Nazis http://holocaustforgotten.com/eugene.htm
UN officials at Yad Vashem for Holocaust seminar www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1192380694154
Radio program aids search for Holocaust survivors www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1192380743422
Statue salutes Polish man who warned FDR of Nazi camps
Czechs back Jews with mass protest against neo-Nazis www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20071112pragueneonazis.html
Extremists call for new Prague rally www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105272.html
German lawmakers eye anti-Semitism panel www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105246.html
Germany Starts Work on Gestapo Exhibit www.att.net/s/editorial.dll?eeid=5503231&eetype=article&render=y&ck=
Wiesenthal Center launches 'Operation: Last Chance' in South America www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1195546725159
Cologne rededicates Torah www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105048.html
Zionist official was first to hear of Final Solution www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1195036610030
‘Chain Of Memory’ www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c51_a744/Editorial__Opinion/Editorial.html
Passing It On: Holocaust survivor shares story at school www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1574&dept_id=532216&newsid=18996352&PAG=461&rfi=9
Priest hunts for Jewish dead in Ukraine's Nazi-era killing fields www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20071101desboisholocaust.html
In E. Europe, recovered archives enable hunt for Jewish dead www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20071101jordamassgrvs.html
Sheltered from the Nazis in Albania www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1192380725915
Holocaust survivor from Tel Aviv, rescuer from Poland, reunited www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1195546715261
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1195546715261 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/25/wpoles125.xml
AJ Congress taps Israel Singer www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105584.html
Nobel winner worked with Nazis www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105577.html
Wiesenthal Center launches 'Last Chance' www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105572.html
Senesh gravestone moved to Israel www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105503.html
Swastika Painted on Columbia Professor’s Door www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/education/01swastika.html?ref=education
Jewish student behind some dorm swastikas www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105127.html
Police arrest man in swastika carving case www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105484.html
Mahler jailed over Nazi greeting www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105483.html
Irving causes Oxford forum collapse www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105422.html
Protesters disrupt Irving's Oxford speech www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105540.html
Berlin Jews apparently changing leaders www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105529.html
Anne Frank tree spared axe for now www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105449.html
A Cookbook by Any Other Name http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/14335
The Most Important Cookbook You’ll Ever Own: Holocaust Survivor Cookbook Raises Money for Israel Soup Kitchen and Preserves Survivors’ Stories and Recipes www.socialaction.com/issues/israel_world/holocaust/HolocaustSurvivorCook.shtml
The Jewish News-Online www.totallyjewish.com/the_jewish_news/view/c-7520/jewish-news-506/?no_login=1
FYI… To hear the clip: Live from Germany: The Jewish Service Heard Round the World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZihm6VlYjo
FYI… Historians and staff of the Survivors’ Registry at the USHMM have been working with cartographers to study what geography reveals about the history of the Holocaust. The project has some exciting possibilities. This summer, a team of historians and cartographers, including Dr. Tim Cole, whose “Holocaust City” looks at the geography of the Budapest ghetto, mapped the fates of four men and two women from Munkács, Hungary, and drew some compelling conclusions about geographical location, gender, survival, and the role of Auschwitz in the distribution of slave laborers. Although this is not yet ready for the website, a member of the project Michael Haley Goldman, has submitted this article as an introduction to the power of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the study of history.
www.esri.com/news/arcnews/summer07articles/what-historians-want.html
FYI… Spurensuche (German for "searching for traces") is a photographic journey through the Munsterland, a region in northwestern Germany, in search of traces of Jewish life.
www.ou.org/shabbat_shalom/article/31080
FYI… One of the recipients of the 2007 National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals is New Jersey Holocaust survivor Harry Ettlinger, member of the Monuments Men, a US Army unit that recovered Jewish-owned art stolen by the Nazis. For more information:
www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/medal
FYI… The Holocaust Remembrance Project is a national contest for high school students designed to encourage and promote the study of the Holocaust. All winners receive cash prizes. The top 10 receive scholarships and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington D.C. over the summer to meet fellow winners, teachers, Holocaust survivors, and dignitaries. Teachers of Holocaust studies at the high school level are eligible to participate as well. For more information and an application: www.holocaust.hklaw.com
FYI… Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine Fifth Mission to German and Poland - Study Tour for Educators: June 25-July 8, 2008. The tour is designed for educators, of all grade levels and disciplines, and graduate and undergraduate college students who seek a greater understanding about the implementation and consequences of the Nazi-conceived "final solution" in Germany and Poland. For more information contact, Jacqueline Littlefield, Education Outreach Coordinator, (207) 621-3530 or by email jmlittlefield@maine.edu www.hhrc.uma.org
FYI… Jewish-German Reconciliation Program, Compassionate Journey in Berlin, Germany May 13-20, 2008. The Compassionate Journey is for those individuals who carry generational and family wounds from the Holocaust and are ready for healing work with Germans in Germany. We would like you to know of our Jewish-German healing and reconciliation program and would love for you and members of your congregation to participate with us. It is a heart opening and life-enriching program with a comprehensive training in Compassionate Listening. Please contact us if you have any questions: www.bermanhealingarts.com/4_jewish/index.htm
FYI… About the German Citizenship Project www.germancitizenshipproject.com/

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December 2007
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