Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
January 2008
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Dear Members and Friends,
We wish all our members good things for the New Year. We hope the year ahead brings health and happiness, to you and your families.
GSI's first west coast conference was held in December at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. The program included workshops for speaker training, The Evolution of the Second Generation Movement and Caring for the Aging Survivor as well as special guest speakers. Among the attendees were leaders of several second-generation groups. The feedback we received included statements like this: "Wow . . . I can't even begin to tell you what an incredible time I had this past weekend . . . suffice it to say, it was one of my best times ever." We welcome all the new members who have come to us from this conference. Our thanks to Eugene Lebovitz and Fred Taucher for coordinating the Celebration of the Generations gathering and providing us the opportunity to make the conference-within-a-conference possible.
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
For survivors applying for German Government Ghetto Labor Compensation Fund: In September 2007, the German government announced the establishment of a new Ghetto Fund to pay symbolic compensation for work without force in Holocaust-era ghettos. Details are available: www.claimscon.org/index.asp?url=zrbg/notice-1207
The new documentary film In the Name of the Victims, focusing on the Claims Conference, is now available for free viewing via the Internet: www.tamouzmedia.com/in-the-name_movie.htm. The companion website: http://linktv.org/victims features an interview video with the director, Ilan Ziv, a discussion board and links to resources.
ICHEIC's listing of policyholders is still available online: www1.yadvashem.org/pheip/ICHEC_Search.ASP
Then… Justice Delayed and Justice Denied and now… Justice, Before It's Too Late
From Yad Vashem: The recent opening of the International Tracing Service (ITS) Archives at Bad Arolsen in Germany will potentially make millions of records and images of historical documents available to the wider public. A digital copy of part of the archive, containing over 12 million documents, was handed over to Yad Vashem, and work has already begun to make that information readily accessible to survivors and their families. Yad Vashem expects to receive the entire ITS archive by the end of 2010. With over half a century’s experience working with ITS documents, a portion of which were microfilmed by a team of experts at Yad Vashem in the 1950s and stored in its archives, Yad Vashem is using its expertise to make the information in the digitized documents available in the most efficient way possible. www.yadvashem.org
Yad Vashem continues its mission to memorialize each individual Jew who perished in the Holocaust by recording their names, biographical details and photographs on Pages of Testimony. To date more than 3.3 million names are digitized and documented in the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, but millions more remain unknown. Archival experts are working to glean additional victims’ names from the wealth of information contained in the ITS documents recently received by Yad Vashem.
While the addition of the ITS information to Yad Vashem’s archives will create an unrivaled Holocaust repository, many victims who were never listed in any archival source will still remain unnamed, unless those who remember them submit Pages of Testimony on their behalf. Yad Vashem therefore continues to call for the submission of these unique personal testimonies, which serve as an invaluable resource for commemorating and restoring the individual identities of the victims of the Holocaust.
Pages of Testimony are available online, in a variety of languages.
From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: All countries have approved the treaty making public the roughly 100 million Holocaust documents from the International Tracing Service in Germany. As the United States’ repository for these documents, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum plans to open these records to the public, starting January 17th. Because these records were never intended to go public, they are not Internet accessible. The Museum has been training researchers in the use of these documents and has been accepting requests for information since December. A form for requesting information can be found on the Museum’s website, www.ushmm.org. Please allow several weeks for a response. For further information, visit the website and click on Survivors’ Registry.
Also from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Committee on Conscience:
Intern with the Committee on Conscience: The Committee is looking for an individual to be a valuable addition to a busy team who will be fully engaged in responding to the ongoing crisis in Darfur, Sudan, while continuing to monitor other perils around the world. We are currently accepting applications for winter and Spring 2008. For more information about the internship and how to apply, please visit: www.ushmm.org/conscience/internship/
New COC Brochure: Responding to Genocide Today is now available about the COC’s genocide prevention work. Send requests to genocideprevention@ushmm.org To learn more, visit: www.ushmm.org/conscience/action/
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
- The 5th Annual Conference on Jewish Medical Ethics
- January 22, 2008, 6:00 p.m.
- Westin Oaks Hotel, Houston, TX
- For more information: www.jewishboxoffice.com/torch/medical/index.php;
- Tenth Annual Professional Development Conference
- January 27, 2008 8:30 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.
- Pratt Mansion, Marymount School, New York, NY
- The topic for this year’s conference is “Echoes and Reflections: A multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust.” For more information: IApelker@yadvashemusa.org
- Teaching about Genocide in the 20th and 21st Centuries:
- A Conference for Teachers
- February 1-2, 2008
- Yale University, New Haven, CT
- Free of charge but registration is required. Curricular materials will be distributed free of charge and books by the various speakers will be available for purchase. Professional development credits are available. For information / registration: www.learntoquestion.com/yale/program.html For questions please contact: Judi Freeman at jfreeman@boston.k12.ma.us
- International Conference of Holocaust Museum Educators
- March 2-6, 2008
- Holocaust Museum Houston
- (Co-Sponsored by the Association of Holocaust Organizations)
- For further information contact: Dr. Mary Lee Webeck mwebeck@hmh.org
- Taking Responsibility
International Conference of 2G and 3G - Jerusalem, Israel
- June 16 – 20, 2008
- This conference is being organized with the support of Yad Vashem. Details will be published soon: www1.yadvashem.org/heb_site/heb_remembrance/dor/home_dor.html
- Teaching the Shoah-Fighting Racism and Prejudice
The 6th International Conference on Holocaust Education - Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- July 7-10, 2008
- The conference committee invites submissions of abstracts for the afternoon educational workshops. All abstracts must be received by January 25, 2008 for consideration. 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
- 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).
- Ateret Cohn Holocaust Educators Symposium
- Teaching the Holocaust: Lessons for the Future
- March 2-3, 2008
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI
- Keynote Speaker: Deborah Lipstadt, Topic: "Holocaust Denial in the 21st Century" Dramatic performance by Naava Piatka performing her one woman show, "Better Don't Talk." For more information please contact Bonnie Shafrin, HERC Director at 414-963-2719 or bonnies@milwaukeejewish.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
- For application guidelines, visit www.ushmm.org/research/center/seminars/#workshop.
UPCOMING EVENTS
- 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
- January 2, 2008, 7:00 PM – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest From Memory to History: Faces and Voices of the Holocaust film series: Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust, the story of an Orthodox Jewish father who takes his adult sons on an emotional journey to Poland to track down the family who risked their lives to hide their grandfather for more than two years during World War II. Light refreshments will follow. Please RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- 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 7, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Lecture: Medical Ethics and the Holocaust – From Nuremberg to the Human Genome and Beyond. Speaker: Henry T. Greely, professor of genetics and director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Program on Stem Cells in Society at Stanford University. www.hmh.org
- January 8 - April 27, 2008 – Aurora History Museum, Aurora, CO
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Varian Fry, ASSIGNMENT: RESCUE, 1940-1941. For more information: www.ushmm.org.
- January 8, 2008, 4:00-6:00 pm – Lawrence High School Media Center, Lawrence Township, NJ Presentation & Discussion: Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment 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 15, 2008, 7:30 p.m. –Temple Shalom, 8401 Grubb Road, Chevy Chase, MD
- Voices Crying in the Wilderness: A Holocaust Lecture. As six million Jews were being murdered, the world stood blind. What did American Jewish leadership know, and how did it react? Featuring Dr. Rafael Medoff, David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and Micah Naftalin, former director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. For more information, call (301) 585-7772 or email bigchapter.washingtondc@hadassah.org.
- January 17, 2008, 7:00 - 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- Continuing the Conversation. For questions or to register, please contact Laura at 201-837-9090 or email thelivingroom@jfsbergen.org
- January 17, 2008 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. – Cullen Performance Hall, University of Houston, Entrance 1, Houston, TX
- Medical Ethics and the Holocaust-21st Century Genetics: Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Harms and What Does 21st Century Eugenics Look Like? Speakers: Francis S. Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institute of Health and Christine Rosen, a senior editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society, and author of Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement. Admission is free, but advance registration is required. www.hmh.org
- January 19, 2008, 2:30 p.m. – Stimson Auditorium, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA
- Music of Remembrance: LEGACY – Part of MOR’s Sparks of Glory concert-and-commentary series. While nearly all of Terezín’s prisoners were eventually transported to death camps, Terezín was a remarkable center of spiritual resistance through artistic creation. Works by two Terezín inmates, the Czech composers Hans Krása and Pavel Haas, are highlighted at this concert. For more information: info@musicofremembrance.org, www.musicofremembrance.org
- January 19, 20, 2008– Miles Nadal JCC, Toronto, Canada
- Daughter of survivors Deb Filler will perform her new show Don’t Get Me Started. For more information: www.fillerup.ca/shows.htm
- January 22, 2008, 12 noon– Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest: Lunch and Learn with survivor Anita Sztybel. Please bring a dairy lunch, beverage and cookies provided. RSVP and information: 973-929-3194 or holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org.
- January 22, 2008, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM– The Westin Oaks, 5011 Westheimer Road at Post Oak, Houston, TX
- Torch Dinner in collaboration with the Medical Ethics and the Holocaust lecture series. Guest speakers George Noon, M.D. Professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery and Assist Devices at Baylor College of Medicine, and Avraham Steinberg, M.D., Director of the Center for Medical Ethics, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, and winner of the Israel Prize for his Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics. To register for this event, call 713-721-6400.
- 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 26, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Temple Beth El, 660 Park Avenue, Huntington, NY
- Program: An Evening with Ruth Gruber. Ms. Gruber is an eyewitness to / participant in history. Free and open to the public. For more: 631-421-5835
- 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 28, 2008, 6:00 p.m. – General Assembly Hall, United Nations Building, New York, NY
- Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony with keynote speaker Congressman Tom Lantos. For more information: www.un.org
- January 29, 2008, 12:00 noon – Library of Congress, Washington, DC
- Film: The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton, saved 669 Czechoslovak children by arranging their escape from German-occupied Czechoslovakia. For more information: gshi@loc.gov
- 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
- January 30, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Amernick-Goldstein Concert Hall at Lynn University, Boca Raton, FL
- An Evening with S.Hanala Stadner, author of My Parents Went Through The Holocaust and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt. For more information: www.nextgenerations.org
- January 31, 2008, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
- In The Shadows of the Holocaust: German Jewry after 1945 with Professor Michael Brenner, Chair of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich in Germany. A reception follows the lecture. Reservations are requested. 202.488.6162.
- 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 3, 2008, 3:00 p.m. – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Generations of the Shoah - New Jersey and the Holocaust Council of MetroWest, in partnership with the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education, present Their Voices, Our Voices: Integrating our Parents' Testimony with our own Narrative to Teach the Holocaust. Learn how to use technology to develop dynamic, effective presentations about the Holocaust that synthesize the voice of the second/third generation with that of their survivor parents/grandparents. Speakers Sandy Rubenstein, Adam Kenner and Sheryl Rivera have created a powerful presentation incorporating Sandy's father's Shoah testimony and will share their techniques with us. Please RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- 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
- February 17, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – Golden Pavilion, Hillel Center, FAU, Boca Raton, FL
- NEXT GENERATIONS Workshop Taking Care of Business: Addressing the needs of elderly parents. For more information: www.nextgenerations.org
- February 27, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Reid Castle, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
- Distinguished Lecture: In Search of An Arab Schindler: Heroes of the Holocaust in Arab Lands with Dr. Robert Satloff, Executive Director Washington Institute for Near East Policy. For more: www.holocausteducationctr.org
- March 8, 2008, 8:00 p.m. – Temple Emanuel, Grand Rapids, MI
- To Life! A Holocaust Hero's Modern Miracle: An Evening of Mystery and Revelation . Dr. Jud Newborn poignantly interweaves his own personal story and adventures with the lost world of the Jewish shtetl, and the amazing tale of Arthur Zyieglbojm, the first man to bring the news of the Holocaust to the West. Fees. Call Jewish Federation of Grand Rapids at 616-942-5553 for tickets.
FYI: For your information
- FYI… Bet Tzedek Legal Services will be conducting a training session on the new German compensation program for voluntary ghetto workers on Wednesday, January 23, 2007 at
10:00 a.m. Pacific time. We have not yet worked out all the details, but this will likely be either a telephonic conference or a live web cast with a call-in option for those who do not have the technology to participate in the web-based training.
This training is for service providers only. Please feel free to share this information with others in your organization (or with JFS/JFCS organizations in other cities) that work with Holocaust survivors. This training session is in addition to, and is not intended to supersede, the Q&A teleconference that will be held by the Claims Conference on January 14th. For more: www.bettzedek.org
- FYI… Regarding the memorial and education center that will be built at the Rivesaltes internment camp in France: Help is being sought to identify and provide contact information for eyewitnesses – those who were in Rivesaltes and would agree to be interviewed/filmed for oral histories to be used in a planned exhibit. The Rivesaltes memorial site team will come to the U.S. for these interviews. If you know of survivors willing to participate in this project, please contact Marc Masurovsky at mmasurovsky@ushmm.org or phone 202-488-0497.
The project is being led by the French regional government and is also supported by the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. In June the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research urged its member countries to preserve the ''physical locations where Holocaust-related events occurred.'' For more information on Rivesaltes and this project, please see the article Paying Tribute to the Persecuted at http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/travel/14heads.html
- FYI… The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has posted some educational film clips on YouTube. For a sampling: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MPeKNBZW6o&sdig=1 and check out some of the other listings from the USHMM on the screen.
- FYI… School Curriculum Receives Accolades Echoes and Reflections, a multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust, developed jointly by Yad Vashem, the ADL and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education for teaching the Holocaust, was recently honored with the National Association for Multicultural Education Media (NAME) Award for 2007. The NAME award recognizes the integration of visual testimonies of survivors and witnesses with primary source documents and brings special attention to the Echoes and Reflections website, which has been developed as an integral part of the Echoes and Reflections available resources. Through its historical prism, the interdisciplinary curriculum comprehensively addresses Holocaust education while also tackling contemporary issues of antisemitism, racial hatred and prejudice.
- FYI… … Mount Sinai Memorial Park's project to create a quilt to honor those who perished in the Holocaust, those who survived, and the liberators who saved them: We are asking everyone to create a square that represents what the Holocaust means to them. We will provide the quilt square(s) and instructions, and you can be as creative as you like. The squares will be stitched together and shown for the first time at Mount Sinai in Simi Valley, CA, at our Yom HaShoah Observance, May 4, 2008. The quilt will travel between our Simi Valley and Los Angeles parks, and will also be displayed at various synagogues throughout the Los Angeles community.
The deadline for sending the completed squares back to us is Jan. 31, 2008. Those in the Los Angeles area are welcome to attend our Yom Ha Shoah Observance. For more information contact Lesley Rich, Admin. Assistant, Shoah Quilt Project at 805-955-0078, Ext. 407 or lrich@mountsinaiparks.org
- FYI... Articles in the media
- Justice, Before It's Too Late
- Survivors deserve the right to sue
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=30&ArticleID=8088&TM=19926.9www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106035.html- Germany expands payments to ghetto laborers
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106035.html- Nazi archive will help save lost names
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3Dy4KVqcVA8dtFs12wDs81uHomQD8T85KKO0- Nazi archive adds millions of names from vanished communities to Holocaust museum records
www.pr-inside.com/nazi-archive-adds-millions-of-names-r325056.htm- USHMM plans for Bad Arolsen Archives to “create intolerable bottlenecks and sufferings” says Holocaust Survivor Group
- Survivor advocacy groups split over bill allowing insurance suits
http://jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/mobile/europefsu/story/105705.html- Gov't to transfer NIS 73 m. to Holocaust restitution group
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1198517198834- Highlights (And Mostly Lowlights) Of 2007
www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c52_a1539/Editorial__Opinion/Gary_Rosenblatt.html- Claims Conference to support survivors in Sderot
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105888.html- $3.1M in Fees Awarded in Holocaust Case
www.nysun.com/article/67672- Court Approves $3.1 Million Fee for Attorney in Holocaust Case
www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1196935478430- Haredi Holocaust remembrance
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847374643&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull- Survival story: 'I just do what I need to do'
www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.germany23dec23,0,933883.story- “Medical Ethics and the Holocaust” Concludes with a Look into the Next Generation of Discrimination through Genetic Tampering
www.nodussolutions.com/MedicalEthics/uploads/JanuaryreleaseL.pdf- IAF chief draws Iran-Hitler link
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105712.html- Hitler a Hero on Palestinian Authority Radio
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124485- Holocaust survivor moves students
- Another bus ride, another outcome
www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.kane26dec26,0,1511835.column?coll=bal- Md. Holocaust Survivor Makes a Point of Speaking Out
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/14/AR2007051400551.html- Ruth Wisse at the White House
http://jpundit.typepad.com/jci/2007/11/ruth-wisse-at-t.html- Holocaust denier sentenced to prison
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105681.html- Unrepentant Nazi, 84, calls Auschwitz a 'ten star hotel' and tells Dachau victim 'you survived well'
www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=501310&in_page_id=1811- Holocaust denial by Ahmadinejad has harmed Iran, opposition says
- Britain's Muslims end Holocaust Day boycott
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105682.html- The Stowaway on Schindler’s List
www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/nyregion/thecity/02schi.html?_r=1&ref=thecity&oref=slogin- Italian politician suggests Nazi tactics
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105748.html- Young Hungarians spark Jewish renaissance
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/12/09/MNP7TO1N6.DTL- History lesson gone awry: Kiev pupils make Nazi posters
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2007120620071205kievschool.html- Charges over Wikipedia Nazi symbols dropped
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105787.html- Brighton, NY - American Soldier Fighting World War II. A True Jewish Hero
www.vosizneias.com/2007/12/brighton-ny-american-soldier-fighting.html- Buenos Aires promotes Shoah museum
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105792.html- Modern-day odyssey: Author traces family history
http://gazette.net/stories/121207/enterev151419_32362.shtml- The Multiple Distortions of Holocaust Memory
hwww.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=3337- University [of Kentucky] Dispels Rumor Spread Online
http://www.forward.com/articles/12198- Finnish vets group selling swastika ringsl
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105996.htm- Study grows into project
www4.vindy.com/content/local_regional/290541016964319.php- A Lawsuit Will Determine the Fate of 2 Picassos
www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/nyregion/18picasso.html?_r=1&oref=slogin- Insane or Just Evil? A Psychiatrist Takes a New Look at Hitler
- Exhibit traces comic industry's Jewish origins
www.miamiherald.com/tropical_life/story/357045.html- Will Smith sees 'good' in Hitler
/www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106075.html- FYI… contributions by children of survivors reported in the media…
A Family Reunion for Grandson of Zionism's Founder www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112902368_2.html- Herzl grandson buried in Jerusalem
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105718.html- The return of a Zionist
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1195546804265
Note: Jerry Klinger is the son of survivors.- Federations veteran to head state association
http://thejewishstate.net/dec21newfedhead.html
Note: Jacob Toporek is the son of survivors.- Domestic Jewish Peace Corps To Open New Orleans Branch
www.jewishnola.com/page.html?ArticleID=162761
Note: Joshua Lichtman is the son of a survivor- FYI… PBS series The Jewish Americans:
www.jewishtvnetwork.com/jewishamericans- FYI… this is the abstract: The Book of Exodus, The New Yorker, December 3, 2007
- FYI… Holocaust Survivor Cookbook on Fox Morning News:
www.youtube.com/survivorcookbook- FYI… … For a look at what is currently going on with regard to Holocaust education in England:
http://london.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.00b005001- FYI… … iVolunteer is a dynamic group of responsible, dedicated and caring volunteers who are matched up with Holocaust survivors, with whom they then build a strong connection by visiting them in their homes, providing them with companionship and assistance and truly becoming friends. Each volunteer is carefully matched with a survivor who shares common interests and live nearby. They also receive thorough training before entering the home of a survivor. Both volunteers and survivors benefit immensely from their involvement with iVolunteer, which creates a sense of community by providing both our survivors and volunteers with social events and special programs. We are currently working on reaching out to more Holocaust survivors in Manhattan. If you know of a Holocaust Survivor who would enjoy being a part of this program, or if you would like to volunteer, please contact Tzvi or Elisheva Tauby at (646) 461.7748, or email us at info@ivolunteerny.com. To learn more about iVolunteer check out our new website www.ivolunteerny.com
- FYI… There are several programs that are designed to help remember children killed during the Shoah as part of Bar / Bat Mitzvah observances. One such program is Remember Us. For more information on this program: www.remember-us.org/index.shtml
- FYI… … Jewish photographers who documented armed resistance during the Holocaust were rare. Rarer are images of Jewish partisans. One of the only, perhaps the only, Jewish photographers to capture Jewish partisan resistance during the Holocaust was former partisan Faye Schulman. Each photograph tells a fascinating story: of friendship and camaraderie, of horror and loss, of bravery and triumph. Accompanying each photograph in the exhibit will be the story behind the image, in Faye's own words, combined with video on the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF) website from an interview with the photographer. A study guide and teacher training will also be produced. If you would like more information about the exhibit, please email: exhibit@jewishpartisans.org
- FYI… Jewish History Study Tours is pleased to present two extraordinary trips that are more journey than tours. The ten-day tour to Italy (May 4 – 14 2008) looks at Italy’s record of saving 85% of its Jewish citizens and the extraordinary contributions of the Jewish people to the architecture of Italian civilization. The nine-day tour to Poland and the Czech Republic (May 25 – June 2) includes visits to the death camps but is focused in reconstructing and illuminating the rich and brilliant lives of Polish Jews from the 17th century until their destruction. For detailed information: www.jewishhistorystudytours.com or 301- 502 –1929.
- 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… Several times over the years we have told you about the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive. If you are not aware of it: Click here: Virtual cinema of The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
- FYI… Still searching for the Hungarian who was marched out of Jaworzno (coal mine subcamp of Auschwitz) and hidden in an outhouse during the Death March. He was a teenager at the time in January 1945. The Polish Jewish prisoner who hid this boy would like to know if he survived. For more: etfinder@juno.com.
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