Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
February 2008
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Dear Members and Friends,
We are delighted to announce the addition of a new member of our Coordinating Council. Daniel Brooks, founder and director of 3GNY – a New York City based Group for Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors. He started this group because he feels that by coming together as a community and finding common ground, grandchildren of survivors will be more effective in exploring their legacy, how to articulate it and how to pass it on. He is the grandson of four Holocaust survivors – his maternal grandparents are from Poland and his paternal grandparents are from Latvia.
We would also like to welcome the hundreds of new members that have joined GSI in 2008.It is wonderful to have you part of our extended family. Referrals to GSI are much appreciated.
This newsletter includes information from Germany, Yad Vashem, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Red Cross International Tracing Service about the accessibility of Holocaust records. There are numerous Holocaust-related newspaper articles in the FYI section.
Yom Hashoah is approaching. If you want to have your Holocaust commemoration included in our newsletter, please send your information in soon: www.genshoah.org/contact_gsi.html.
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. Kindly do not to wait until the last minute. Send us your information later than the 23rd of the month month if you wish for it to appear in the upcoming month’s issue.
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 new informational feature has been added to the (Holocaust Survivors Foundation) HSF-USA website: Generali Litigation Timeline, featuring links to key documents, some not publicly available anywhere else on the web. http://hsf-usa.org/Generali.htm
Note: there will be a Congressional hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services on February 7, 2008 re: HR 1746 concerning Holocaust Era Insurance. The HSF-USA website has updated information on this.
From Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem has updated its technical resources and inquiries about Holocaust victims may now be made online. The vast archival materials amassed over the years at Yad Vashem, including a portion of the scanned International Tracing Service (ITS) materials recently transferred to Yad Vashem, will be accessed to respond to queries. Our reference staff will respond individually to each request, but please allow several weeks for an answer. Meanwhile, because the documents received from the ITS are not in an online searchable format, Yad Vashem’s technical staff is working diligently to make them accessible via our reference staff. In parallel, Yad Vashem is investing immense efforts to integrate the ITS materials into its computer systems in order to eventually make them available to the public in a user-friendly manner.
With 75 million pages of documentation, as well as photographs, testimonies, Pages of Testimony and portions of ITS records received in the 1950's, Yad Vashem’s Archives comprise the largest collection of information on the Holocaust. While much of the ITS information received in August 2007 duplicates the documents received decades ago, the copies comprise additional material collected by the ITS over the last 50 years, as well as documents never received by Yad Vashem. The receipt of the scanned ITS materials is an ongoing project with additional materials to be transferred to Yad Vashem over the course of the next two years.
Information requests may be sent via mail or fax (+972-2-644-3669), using a downloadable form, or an online form. To learn more about submitting a request click here. For more information, facts and history about ITS, Yad Vashem and the documents in the Archives, please visit our ITS fact sheet. As always, our research staff considers these requests an important priority and new queries will be answered in a timely manner. The public is welcome to visit Yad Vashem and search our entire collection of archival material. Our reading room is open 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, Sunday – Thursday.
Yad Vashem and ODIHR/OSCE have published a guide for educators Addressing Antisemitism: Why and How (34 pages): www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2007/12/28962_en.pdf.
Shoah Victims’ Names Recovery Project – International Efforts Continue
Please read our latest Names Project update and make use of a variety of new online resources designed to enhance your outreach efforts.
Pages of Testimony Tutorial Video: We have created a 10-minute video to demonstrate how to help survivors and others fill out Pages of Testimony and memorialize Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The video presents a volunteer visiting with two women in their homes to assist them in recalling and recording the names of Shoah victims on Pages of Testimony. The video is ideal for screening at volunteer training sessions or to provide tips and insight for individuals wishing to embark on this project.
Yad Vashem Launches Arabic Website
This website about the Holocaust in Arabic includes stories of Righteous Among the Nations- including Muslims from Turkey and Albania- and the movie We Were There, which documents a joint visit of Arabs and Jews to Auschwitz. The website may be accessed from www.yadvashem.org. More information about the Arabic site can be found here.
For information about Yad Vashem events marking UN Holocaust Remembrance Day, click here.
From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
On January 17th, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum launched a search service to access the International Tracing Service material. The Museum has already received over 68 million digital copies of this material and is scheduled to have over 100 million images by 2010. Current information received is on incarceration and concentration camps. Information on forced labor camps is expected this summer and information on displaced person camps is scheduled to be received by 2010. Holocaust survivors and their families can send research requests to the Museum and staff will look for information in the ITS records as well as the Museum’s additional 45 million pages of documents. The Museum’s on-line form can be found on its website at www.ushmm.org/its or call toll free at 866-912-4385. The Museum hopes to have searches completed in six to eight weeks.
From the American Red Cross Holocaust and War Victim Tracing Center
Holocaust survivors can obtain information and documentation from many sources and should not overlook the American Red Cross Holocaust and War Victim Tracing Center. More than 40,000 searches have been conducted since we began providing this specialized tracing service, at no cost, in 1990. We continue to search directly through thousands of archives, (including the forced labor, immigration and displaced persons records at the ITS that will not be completely digitized until 2010), the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem, as well as other sources throughout the world.
A few examples of records accessible to us include: evacuation records from former Soviet territories and people who disappeared into the Gulag; birth certificates for persons born in displaced persons camps in Germany; access to ALL the records at the International Tracing Service, post-war court records (where individuals were declared dead by a court decision in property rights cases); records of persons who survived the war and emigrated to other countries, including Israel; state archives in Poland, Russian, Ukraine, and documentation centers in France, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Miraculously, 1,300 people have been joyfully reunited with loved ones missing for 60 years or more through the Tracing Center.
This unique tracing service provides valuable information and delivers the news with respect and compassion. When information becomes available Red Cross caseworkers in communities throughout the United States call or visit their clients personally. To initiate a search, call your local Red Cross chapter or the Tracing Center at 410-624-2090. You can also go to our website www.redcross.org for chapter information and more information about our services, including an on-line form http://www.redcross.org/services/intl/holotrace/process.html.
The German Federal Archive has launched a new site/database containing close to 160,000 names of German Jews deported during WWII
Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933 - 1945
(Jewish victims of persecution by the National Socialist government in Germany 1933 - 1945)
The search engine contains close to 160,000 names of German Jews deported during WWII and allows searches by several criteria, including concentration camps and ghettos to which people were deported. The site also allows for printing search results and applying for an official document from the German government confirming the data. The site is in German only and the search engine works with German mutated vowels (umlauts). www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/directory.html
The International Task Force has a revised set of guidelines dealing with Visiting Holocaust Related Sites. You can find them at: www.holocausttaskforce.org/teachers/index.php?content=guidelines/menu.php
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
- 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
- Variations in Response to Catastrophe: Emotional Cutoff and Holocaust Survivors
- February 2, 2008 8:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Christ Church Cathedral, 1117 Texas Ave, Houston, TX
- Fees, but free for Holocaust Survivors. For more information about the conference: 713-790-0343 or www.csnsf.org. Co-sponsored by the Holocaust Museum Houston www.hmh.org
- 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
- The 6th International Conference on Holocaust Education
Teaching the Shoah-Fighting Racism and Prejudice - Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- July 7-10, 2008
- For detailed information on topics, fees and registration, visit our website at www.yadvashem.org or call Ephraim Kaye at +972-2-644-3638.
- World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust Annual Conference
- November 7 – 10, 2008
- Alexandria Hilton, Alexandria, Virginia (minutes from downtown Washington, DC).
- Save the dates. For information: www.wfjcsh.org/
- Taking Responsibility
International Conference of 2G and 3G - Jerusalem, Israel
- December 21-25, 2008 *date change
- This conference is being organized with the support of Yad Vashem. Details will be published soon: For more: yeshcohs@smile.net.il.
- Beyond camps and forced labour:
Current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution - Imperial War Museum, London, England
- January 7-9, 2009
- Call for papers: Please send an abstract of 200-250 words together with biographical background of about 50 words by 28 February 2008 to: Johannes-Dieter Steinert: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
- Using the Newspaper In Your Classroom to Teach
- About the Holocaust and Prejudice Reduction
- Goodwin Holocaust Museum and Education Center
- 1301 Springdale Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
- February 14, 2008 9 am - 3 pm
- Appropriate for teachers of grades K-12; 5 Professional Development credits; Cost: $10/person.
Registration Deadline – February 7, 2008. To register, call (856) 751-9500 x 249 or e-mail hkirschbaum@jfedsnj.org. For information, www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/021408workshop.pdf
- Holocaust and Human Behavior
- Online Seminar offered by Facing History and Ourselves
- Start Dates: February 21, 2008 Apply Now!
- March 27, 2008 Apply Now!
- Fees. Graduate credits are available through Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. For more: Facing History and Ourselves
- 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
- THE ETHICS OF MEDICINE
- The power to heal, the power to harm
- April 11 – 12, 2008
- Inver Hills Community College
- For more information: Linda Andrean, 612-624-9811, www.cas.umn.edu
Registration: www.igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach
- 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 – February 10, 2008, Ruby Theater at the Complex, Hollywood, CA
- Talking with Angels: based on the experiences of four Jewish women who lived under the Nazis. For more information: www.talkingwithangels.com and for tickets: 323-960-5774
- Now – March 2, 2008 – United Nations Visitor’s Lobby, New York, NY
- Yad Vashem’s exhibition: Besa: A Code of Honor-Muslim Albanians who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust, by American photographer Norman Gershman, presents portraits of Albanian Righteous Among the Nations and their families. www1.yadvashem.org/about_yad/what_new/gershman/temp_index_whats_new_Gershman.html
- Now – March 15, 2008 – El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center, El Paso, TX
- Art exhibit: Out of the Flames by 2G artist Fay Grajower. Free. For more information: www.elpasoholocaustmuseum.org or www.grajowerstudio.com.
- Now – April 6, 2008 – Kansas Sports Hall of Fame, Wichita, KS
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936. For more: www.ushmm.org.
- Now – April 27, 2008 – Aurora History Museum, Aurora, CO
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition Varian Fry: Assignment Rescue 1940-1941. For more: www.ushmm.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, www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/110907_061508betrayal.pdf
- Now – July, 2008 – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
- Exhibit: Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, Jews throughout Europe, through individual and collective acts of resistance, sought to undermine the Nazi goal of the annihilation of the Jewish people despite unimaginable difficulties. Their efforts powerfully refute the popular perception that Jews were passive victims. Through testimony, archival footage, and authentic artifacts, the exhibition will help visitors to understand the dilemmas that Jews faced under impossible circumstances. For more: www.mjhnyc.org
- February 2 – March 27, 2008 – Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library North, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Exhibit: Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps. A collection of rare Holocaust-era letters and photographs, from handwritten postcards to photographs to official documents, were saved at great personal risk by Sala Garncarz from the time she entered a Nazi labor camp in 1940 until her liberation in 1945. For more information about the exhibition visit www.letterstosala.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 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 6, 2008, 6:30 p.m. – The Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
- Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine with author Omer Bartov, leading scholar who embarks upon some twenty Ukrainian towns-including his mother's hometown of Buchach-to uncover the remains of this missing Jewish history. Ultimately, he finds that Ukraine, with its ethnically cleansed population, has reinvented its past by suppressing the bystanders' collective memory of the country's victims. Fees. For more: www.mjhnyc.org
- February 11, 2008, 12 noon – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest Bagels and Books: discussion of The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood by Mark Kurzem, the story of a man’s struggle with memory and prejudice on the way to recovering his past. A survival story, a grim fairy-tale, and a psychological drama, this remarkable memoir asks provocative questions about identity, complicity, and forgiveness. RSVP / information: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- February 12, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Ruth Marder Theatre, Towson University, Baltimore, MD
- Literary Responses to the Holocaust on Israel's 60th Anniversary, a lecture by Dr. Alan Rosen, International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Israel. For more information: Jeanette Parmigiani jparmigiani@baltjc.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
- February 13, 2008, 6: 30 p.m. – The Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
- The Yellow Star: Celebrating Extraordinary Acts by Ordinary People
The moving story of the Danish people, who managed to save almost all of the Danish Jews during World War II by hiding them or by ferrying them to safety in Sweden, comes to life in this world premiere opera. Ambassador Torben Gettermann, Consul General of Denmark, will offer remarks on the spirit of resistance. Reception to follow program. Fees. For more: www.mjhnyc.org
- February 13, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Room 100 North, Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Program: Whose Story Is It: How an Archive Was Transformed into an Exhibition, a Book, a Play, and a Documentary Film, featuring curator, Jill Vexler, and Ann Kirschner (Sala’s daughter and author of Sala’s Gift). For more contact Elliot Gertel, egertel@umich.edu or 734-936-2367
- February 13, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, Skokie, IL
- The Association of Descendants of the Shoah-IL will hold a get-together to visit and plan future programs. Pizza and drinks will be served (kosher). Please RSVP to ADSI President Felicia Zieff: tzippy_chs@sbcglobal.net
- February 14 - March 30, 2008 – University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945. 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 18, 2008, 7 – 8:30 p.m. – North Shore Congregation Israel, 1185 Sheridan Road, Glencoe, IL
- Ukraine: The Holocaust by Bullets An Interview with Father Patrick Desbois. This program addresses the fate of Jews buried in mass graves across Ukraine through the lens of Father Patrick Desbois, interviewer of surviving eyewitnesses and participants in mass shootings in that country. His team has investigated 700 of an estimated 2,000 mass graves. For reservations please call 847-835-0724.
- February 19, 2008, 12 noon – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest: Lunch and Learn with survivor Charlotte Elwin. Please bring a dairy lunch, beverage and cookies provided. RSVP and information, holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194
- February 19, 2008, 4:00 p.m. – Catholic Theological Union, Second Floor, 5416 South Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL
- Remembering for Reconciliation: Healing Memories in the Christian-Jewish DialogueAn interview with Father Patrick Desbois, describing his work of healing and reconciliation, identifying mass gravesites and gathering testimonies from eyewitnesses to the murders from the period of the Holocaust in Ukraine. He also discusses what it means to him personally as a Catholic priest and addresses the state of Christian-Jewish relations in France as well as the wider inter-religious scene. For more information, contact the Bernardin Center at 774-371-5432 or bernardincenter@ctu.edu
- February 24 – April 20, 2008 – UCLA Library, Los Angeles, CA
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings. For more: www.ushmm.org.
- February 24, 2008, 7:30-9:00 p.m. – Temple Beth Israel, 10460 North 56th St., Scottsdale, AZ
- PASSAGES Lecture Series: Uncovering the Killing Fields of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe: A Lecture by Father Patrick Desbois. For further details please consult http://phoenix.ujcfedweb.org/index.html. For reservations please call the Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Phoenix at 480.634.8050 or info@bjephoenix.org.
- February 27 – May 4, 2008 – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. For more: www.ushmm.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
- February 28, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Cooperman JCC, 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ
- Film Screening of Darfur Too Dark Too Far: Examining the Root Causes of Genocide followed by panel discussion with film director, Hafiz Farid; Dr. Lori Heninger, Executive director of HighTOPS, Inc.; and Rabbi Jehiel Orenstein, Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Beth El of Maplewood and the Oranges. Sponsored by the Holocaust Council of MetroWest with The African-American Heritage Parade Committee and NoCane, Inc. Free. Reservations required. For information and to RSVP, please contact: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or call 973.929.3194
- March 3 – 28, 2008 – Hillel House, University of Texas, Austin, TX
- Exhibit: Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps. A collection of rare Holocaust-era documents and photographs were saved at great personal risk by Sala Garncarz during her time in a Nazi labor camp from 1940 until 1945. For more information about the exhibition visit www.letterstosala.org or 512.476.0125 x 103, or dkomerofsky@texashillel.org
- March 5, 2008, 6:30 p.m. – The Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
- Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive with author Samuel D. Kassow. This gripping biography tells the story of historian Emanuel Ringelblum, the main architect of the underground archive in the Warsaw Ghetto. Through painstaking efforts and documentation, Ringelblum created a legacy that provides a true testament to how Jews endured life during the Holocaust. Fees. For more: www.mjhnyc.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.
- March 11, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, Skokie, IL
- The Association of Descendants of the Shoah-IL will hold a get-together to visit and plan future programs. Pizza and drinks will be served (kosher). Please RSVP to ADSI President Felicia Zieff: tzippy_chs@sbcglobal.net
- March 12, 2008, 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. – Reid Castle, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
- All-day Human Rights Institute for High School Student Leaders. For more: www.holocausteducationctr.org or 914-696-0738.
- March 18, 2008, 12 noon – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest: Lunch and Learn with survivor and member of the Monument Men, Harry Ettlinger. Please bring a dairy lunch, beverage and cookies provided. RSVP and information, holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194
- March 27, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Golden Pavilion, Hillel Center, FAU Boca Raton campus, Boca Raton, FL
- Film: Rendez-vous with the Past. A documentary & memoir of Edwin Grossman and his family's’ struggles in Nazi-occupied France during WWII. Consul General of Canada, Marcy Grossman presents her family’s history of Holocaust survival. Q & A session will follow the film. For more: Nancy Dershaw, ndershaw@yahoo.com or Judi Hannes, judihng@yahoo.com.
- March 31, 2008, 6:30–8:00 p.m. – Temple Ner Tamid, Lowell St., Peabody, MA
- An Evening of Music with Rosalie Gerut, Child of Holocaust Survivors. Students in grades 7-12 are encouraged to attend with their parents. Reservations suggested: 978-531-8288. Hosted by Temple Ner Tamid and The Men’s Club. Sponsored by The Holocaust Center, Boston North.
- April 3, 2008, 4:00-6:30 p.m. – Reid Castle, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
- Focus Seminar: The Responsibility to Protect: The Way Forward with Prof. Sheri Rosenberg, Director, Human Rights & Genocide Clinic, Cardozo Law School. For more: www.holocausteducationctr.org or 914-696-0738.
- April 5 - May 17, 2008 – Rankin Art Gallery, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition Schindler. For more information: www.ushmm.org.
- April 6 – May 30, 2008 – Hillel House, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Exhibit: Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps. A collection of rare Holocaust-era documents and photographs were saved at great personal risk by Sala Garncarz during her time in a Nazi labor camp from 1940 until 1945. For more information about the exhibit visit www.letterstosala.org or call 206-527-1997
- April 8, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Opening reception for One Class Remembers: a photo exhibit of survivors "then and now", created by the Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Clifton, NJ. RSVP and information: 973-929-3194 or holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org.
- April 10, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – St. Joseph’s Church, Bronxville, NY
- Community Interfaith Holocaust Commemoration. For more: 914-696-0738 or www.holocausteducationctr.org.
- April 14, 2008, 4 - 5 p.m. – County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 70 West Hedding Street, San Jose, CA
- The annual Santa Clara County Yom Hashoah Memorial Program entitled The Untold Stories of the Holocaust. For further information they can contact Doris Schwarz-Lisenbee, co-chair Second Generation Holocaust Survivor Association of Silicon Valley, drdschwarz@aol.com.
- April 16, 2008, 6:30 p.m. – Theater Arts Building, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
- Holocaust Commemoration with guest speakers Holocaust survivor Halina Peabody, daughter of survivors (and MC Professor) Esther Finder, and granddaughter of survivors Jackie Williamowsky. For more information: etfinder@juno.com.
- April 28-30, 2008, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. – Greenburgh Hebrew Center, Dobbs Ferry, NY
- Holocaust Remembrance Program with the following speakers:
- April 28 – Betty Knoop deported from Holland to Bergen-Belsen via the Dutch transit camp Westerbork (same camp as Anne Frank).
- April 29 – Bernhard Storch relates life as prisoner in labor camp in Siberia to Polish Army liberator of several camps, including Majdanek
- April 30 – Jay Sommer escaped from Nazi labor camp, author of Journey to the Golden Door.
- Admission is free but reservations for groups are required. Suggested preparatory lesson plans available upon request. Registration: Halalouf@aol.com. Questions: call JCY 914 –423-5009
- April 30, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Reid Castle, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
- Distinguished Lecture: The Shattering of Law: Legal Systems and Their Role in the Holocaust with Prof. Richard Weisberg, Walter Floersheimer Prof. of Constitutional Law, Cardozo Law School. For more: www.holocausteducationctr.org or 914-696-0738.
- April 30 - May 1, 2008, 20:30 – Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv, Stage Two, Tel Aviv, Israel
- And the Rat Laughed: Theatre in Music. This is the story of a nameless five-year-old child, as it is told to her granddaughter years later. The child’s parents entrust her to a family of farmers living in a remote Polish village. She is hidden in a dark potato cellar, with little food and only a rat for company. Tickets are available at: www.cameri.co.il/eng/contact.asp
- May 1 - June 24, 2008– Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings. For more information: www.ushmm.org.
- May 1, 2008, 6:30 p.m. – Temple Oheb Shalom, 170 Scotland Road, South Orange, NJ
- State of New Jersey Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration featuring Ursula Selig, hidden child in Italy, dignitaries and memorial candle-lighting ceremony. Sponsored by The New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education and The Office of the Governor, in cooperation with the South Orange/Maplewood Annual Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Service Committee Fund and The South Orange/Maplewood Clergy Association. Free; community welcome. For information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/050108yom.pdf
- May 4, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA
- Holocaust Commemoration: I was there...we are here: Stories of Survival. For more information: erast@jcrcboston.org
- May 4, 2008, 11:30-2:30 p.m. – Bogarts Restaurant, Boca Raton, FL
- NEXTGENERATIONS End of Season Brunch. For more information: Nancy ndershaw@yahoo.com or Judi, judihng@yahoo.com
FYI: For your information
- FYI… Data from Book Five of the Lodz Ghetto Residents is now searchable on-line. The introduction to Volume Five reads "This book lists those inhabitants of the Lodz ghetto, who for technical reasons were omitted from previous publications." It is a separate alphabetical listing containing 223 pages of additional entries. In order to do a complete search, these entries should not be overlooked. Some of your family members may be listed in previous searchable volumes, but others with the same surname may be listed only in Volume Five. For more: www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland/LodzGhettoVol5.html.
All volumes are searchable on JewishGen's Holocaust Database, JewishGen's All Poland Database, and Jewish Records Indexing-Poland's Database. Lodz Area Research Group digest lodz@lyris.jewishgen.org.
- FYI… BACK TO THE ROOTS IN AUSTRIA 2008
The youth exchange project “Back to the Roots”, initiated by the Republic of Austria Federal Ministry of Health, Family and Youth, has taken place every year since 1994. It has become well known in Israel and Austria and is also mentioned in the “Memorandum of Understanding” between Israel and Austria (signed on 6 November 2007).In the context of “Back to the roots”, 15 Israelis are invited to visit Austria for 10 days and join 15 Austrians for a trip through “landscape and history”. The main objective is to offer the possibility of tracing the roots and marks of family and relatives in Austria, who were displaced or victimized by the National Socialists or who had to emigrate from Austria.
To date, many young, motivated Israelis have participated. Now we would like to invite young people in the United States, whose Jewish ancestors emigrated to the U.S.A. after having fled or who were displaced, to take part in this exciting project from 13 -23 July 2008. The project should be understood as an intensive trip requiring serious preparation, rather than a leisurely opportunity to tour Austria.
At a later date, probably towards the end of March to the beginning of April, more information as well as an application form will available on the homepage of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health, Family and Youth. The participants themselves will pay the flight to Austria. During the stay in Austria the expenses (meals, travel, and accommodations) will be fully covered by the Ministry. For more information: Mag. Birgit Fuchs, M.B.L., birgit.fuchs@bmgfj.gv.at
- FYI… searching for information about the Leica Camera Company's rescue of Jews. This effort, labelled Freedom Train, has been written about in several sources, however, what we need is someone that can verify this information. I know that several people have tried to find eyewitnesses and have been unable to do so, but I am an optimist and believe that someone out there must have this knowledge. If you can help please contact me at the Virginia Museum: rberlin@va-holocaust.com
- FYI… NBC Nightly News ran this Making a Difference segment on January 11, 2008, on Eli Rosenbaum and the Office of Special Investigations and their work tracking down and bringing Nazis to justice: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#22592715 and click on (Making a Difference) The Nazi Hunter.
- FYI... Articles in the media
- 'The Holocaust Won't Disappear'
www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,510071,00.html- Nazi victims' fund pays out £21m
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7162998.stm- Claims Conference won't handle Holocaust survivor payments
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/947225.html- Museum Provides Detail From Nazi Archive
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jVqkaYAPficVwA3ku7ZLXnEzW08AD8U7MM3O0- Holocaust survivor learns father's fate
www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/381930.html- For some, Bad Arolsen archive yields victims' personal effects
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2008012220080117badarolsen.html- Museum launches Holocaust archives
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106462.html- Museum launches service for Holocaust archives
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20080118badarolsenshapiro.html- Harvesting the Holocaust Shoah archive opens, but access issues linger
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=8298&TM=37479.97- Our obligations to survivors and history
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=29&ArticleID=8276&TM=67248- Miles Lerman, a Holocaust museum founder, dies
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20080123lermanobit01232008.html- Jews in Germany, 2008
www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20080115_Jews_in_Germany__2008.html- Court orders Holocaust art returned
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106167.html- Holocaust auction stirs ire
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106170.html- Survivor group demands stake of Holocaust victims' assets
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/941797.html- Probe ordered on Holocaust survivors' handling
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106261.html- Inquiry into Holocaust survivor benefits lacks clear mandate
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/943560.html- Pensions for survivors ready for distribution
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106322.html- State panel to probe treatment of Holocaust survivors by gov't
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/942423.html- Israel to Probe Neglect Of Holocaust Survivors
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL079236920080107?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews- Analyze This: The right way of doing right by Holocaust survivors
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1198517319236&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull- Another Shoah disgrace
Holocaust survivors continue to suffer as government fails to pay money it owes
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3491591,00.html- Orlev: Spotlight on previous administrations too
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/942473.html- Survivors mistreatment to be probed (updated)
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1198517315787&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull- Holocaust Insurance Case Inches Closer to Settlement
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/business/08holocaust.html?_r=2&ref=business&oref=slogin&oref=slogin- End in sight for Generali Holocaust claims case
www.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews/idUSL0858233320080108- Manhattan: Holocaust Case Settled
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/nyregion/08mbrfs-holocaust.html?ref=nyregion- Lawyer Challenges Italian Insurer Over Holocaust Victim Policies
www.nysun.com/article/69209- Holocaust attorney seeks interest payment
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106644.html- Holocaust Victims' Lawyer Asks for Interest on His Fee
www.nysun.com/article/70255- Holocaust Memorial Group Angry Over Rail Company Charges
www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3041901,00.html- Nazi hunters run against time
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080117/FOREIGN/101404669/1003- Joy in Dachau
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1201070797110&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull- March of the Living readies for high turnout
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1200308086782- Ex-Nazi guard's defense may hinge on defining 'persecution'
www.examiner.com/a-1152746~Ex_Nazi_guard_s_defense_may_hinge_on_defining__persecution_.html- Berlin investigates: Whatever happened to the Jewish businesses?/Berlin university studies Jewish businesses in city prior to Holocaust
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3492220,00.html- Lantos to retire
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106202.html- Seeds of Hate
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Goldberg-t.html?ex=1200373200&en=b5ecc6e00bc9318e&ei=5070&emc=eta1- Not All Palestinians Were Pro-Nazi, Says German Historian
www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3045924,00.html- Memo From Berlin: Germany Confronts Holocaust Legacy Anew
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/world/europe/29nazi.html?ex=1202274000&en=d6de580bdae56ac1&ei=5070&emc=eta1- How Many More Monuments for Berlin?
www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,531865,00.html- Nazi Documentation Center Finally Underway in Berlin
www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,515088,00.html- Mass Murder as Party Entertainment?
www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,512869,00.html- BMW's Quandt Family to Investigate Wealth Amassed in Third Reich
www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,511193,00.html- Record number of visitors to Auschwitz in 2007
www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/culture/?id=73046- 200 watch controversial ‘Forgiving Dr. Mengele’
Va. Museum screens film on Holocaust survivor who forgave
www.inrich.com/cva/ric/search.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-01-14-0125.html- Tragic bond
www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/13/tragic_bond/- German pol's statements seen as 'neo-Nazi'
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106313.html- Vienna's Jewish community re-elects Muzicant for third term
http://www.ejpress.org/article/23033- Trude Levi receives a top German award for Holocaust education
www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s18s180&SecId=180&AId=57648&ATypeId=1- ‘Jew’ still an insult in German schools
www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s19&SecId=19&AId=57618&ATypeId=1- Canadian charged with hate crimes
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106604.html- Canada properly adopts new anti-Semitism, Holocaust positions
www.winnipegfreepress.com/editorial/story/4115411p-4710785c.html- Swastikas found in Brooklyn
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106219.html- N.C. school halts Nazi role-play
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106336.html- President Bush questions Holocaust inaction
http://ed.starledger.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=U3RMLzIwMDgvMDEvMTIjQXIwMDcwMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom- Bush: U.S. Should've Acted on Auschwitz
www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,159857,00.html- :Bush Nearly Moved to Tears at Holocaust Memorial
http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/402/489901- Bush: We should have bombed Auschwitz
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1199964898697- Bush: U.S. should have bombed Nazi camps
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106360.html- Czech town bans neo-Nazi march
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106454.html- Five students from Jewish high school attacked by group in Berlin
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/945697.html- Heirs of Jewish Art Collectors Pursue Works Sold in Nazi Era
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/20/AR2008012002270.html- Scots plan Holocaust museum
www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11&SecId=11&AId=57321&ATypeId=1- Nazi 'death trains' exhibition opens
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7208939.stm- Government Grant for Holocaust Show at Odds With German Rail
www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3068493,00.html- Germany's FBI Examines its Nazi Roots
www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,508857,00.html- For some German non-Jews, remembering life, not just Shoah
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20080129Obermayeraward.html- Muslim group to take part in U.K. Holocaust Memorial Day
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/948506.html- Global youth gather at Yad Vashem parley
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1201523780552- PM: Jews will never again be powerless
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1201523778011- Austria to reopen case against Nazi concentration camp guard
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1201465091007- Holocaust Is Remembered at Italian Institute
www.nysun.com/article/70357- Israeli highschoolers believe another Holocaust possible
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3498760,00.html- Weisenthal Center: Lebanese blocking our ad
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106358.html- Hanukkah with the Bushes
www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/17/opinion/edjacoby.php- Quanell X seeks to make amends for remarks about Jews
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/5493478.html- Drawn In Disguise
www.forbes.com/books/2008/01/02/book-review-comics-oped-cz_mmrh_0104dannyfingeroth.html- Muslim plays Anne Frank in Germany
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106431.html- Iranian state TV produces series on the Holocaust
/www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1199964913895- Social Affairs: 'We are becoming an indifferent society'
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1200572480671- Annette Bar-Cohen
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=8300&TM=130.265- Yad Vashem launches Arabic Web site
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106579.html- Berlin Jewish museum ups security
/www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106521.html- Holocaust Memorial Day exhibitions explore history of Polish Jews
www.london.gov.uk/view_press_release.jsp?releaseid=15215- Historian may be charged with 'slandering Polish nation'
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1200572510210- Schoolgirls take history project to the international stage
www.csmonitor.com/2008/0122/p02s01-almp.html- Actor Donates Glasses To Memorial Project
www.vosizneias.com/2008/01/new-york-ny-actor-donates-glasses-to.html- Carolyn Dorfman Troupe Leader
http://ed.starledger.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=U3RMLzIwMDcvMTIvMzAjQXIwNDkwMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom- Babe Ruth and the Holocaust
www.jewishledger.com/articles/2007/12/19/opinions/edit01.txt- Amazon selling 'I love Himmler' T-shirts
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106542.html- Swastikas in L.A.
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106471.html- FYI… On September 4, 2003 three planes from the Israelis Air Force flew over the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. To see a clip of the event: IAF Eagles Over Auschwitz www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyE00NOpGc.
- FYI… The recent PBS shows on "Jewish Americans" (specifically part 2) gave public exposure to a little known aspect of the Holocaust - the One Thousand Children (OTC) by featuring Manfred (Freddie) Goldwein. After coming alone to America to escape Hitler, Freddie lived with an American family, and was considered one of their family. He, like most OTC children, lost all their extended family in Europe by Hitler's extermination. Nearly all OTC children stayed in the USA after the war. In the PBS show, it is very moving when the actual family son refers to Freddie as truly being his brother.
The One Thousand Children (actually 1400) refers to those children who, unaccompanied without either parent, came to the USA to escape Hitler during the period 1934 - 1945. More information is available at www.OneThousandChildren.org.
- FYI… First Ever International Youth Congress on the Holocaust
Over 100 young people from 62 countries and 5 continents gathered at Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies, for a three-day Youth Congress, beginning on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2008. Ranging in age from 17 to 19, speaking 30 different languages, and including among them Christians, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, participants made the voice of the future heard on shaping Holocaust remembrance and its importance to coming generations. The Congress, under the patronage of UNESCO, was devoted to the study of the Holocaust and discussions of its universal significance. Participants studied various Holocaust-related topics, toured Yad Vashem and Jerusalem, participated in workshops, and met with Holocaust survivors. Special sessions were held with the participation of President Shimon Peres, Minister of Education Prof. Yuli Tamir, Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni and the diplomatic corps.- FYI… CBS TV’s Sunday morning segment on the Monument Men featured New Jersey survivor/soldier Harry Ettlinger on January 27, 2008
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/27/sunday/main3755983.shtml- FYI… From GSI Coordinating Council Member Barbara Wind
The UN Holocaust Commemoration was an amazingly wonderful event. This year it took place in the evening and featured a concert by students from Tel Aviv University’s Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Symphony Orchestra, led by Zubin Mehta. The orchestra was superb, as good as any professional orchestra I’ve heard. Ambassador Dan Gillerman spoke eloquently; saying that if Israel had existed the Holocaust would have been averted.When the ambassador asked survivors and their descendants to stand, Dina Cohen* and I were struck at how few there were in the massive hall of the General Assembly. However, when he invited the descendants of the orchestra to stand, roughly two thirds of the students rose to their feet. It brought tears to my eyes as I realized that had their grandparents or parents not survived the world would be so much the poorer. And Dan Gillerman spoke of that as well. How many wondrous souls and the contributions to the world they would have made had there been no Shoah.
* Dina Cohen is also a member of the GSI Coordinating Council- FYI… The Holocaust Survivors' Group of Southern Nevada, founded in 1995 by Anita and Henry Schuster, celebrated the Bar Mitzvah of their group with an Oneg Shabbat at Temple Beth Knesset Ba-Midbar in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan 25th, 2008. In attendance were several hundred Temple members and many members of the Survivor Group. A special Shabbat Service was conducted in their honor by Rabbi Hershel Brooks, which highlighted the personal courage and fortitude of the Survivors through their many trials during the Second World War. For more information: borenbruno@cox.net.
- FYI… On YouTube: My Opposition: The Diary of One German Man www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kJLE9zvo44
- FYI… From the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
In honor of Miles Lerman, we have placed a link to his biography that also includes video clips from his interview on the PBS film Resistance: Untold Stories of the Jewish Partisans, and photographs on our website's home page, www.jewishpartisans.org- FYI… January 21-22, 1941 marks the anniversary of a Romanian massacre of indescribable horror. View Romanian broadcast at Editie speciala dedicata comemorarii programului legionar or
rtsp://212.54.100.33/video/DATA-2008-01-21-21-58.rm.- FYI… For information on the FJMC (Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs) Yom Hashoah Yellow Candle™ Program www.yellowcandles.org/
- FYI… A simple way for students to learn the redemptive power of memory: Remember Us: The Holocaust Bnai Mitzvah Project offers an invitation to students who are preparing for Bar/Bat Mitzvah to connect with the memory of children who were lost in the Holocaust before they could be called to the Torah. For more information please go to www.remember-us.org or call 707-570-2883.
- FYI… I'm looking for Abe Mazliah. His father was a Salonikan Auschwitz survivor of Peoria, Illinois, and he was head of a 2G group in San Francisco and lived in Mountainview, California in the late 1980s. Any contact info or leads about his whereabouts would be very helpful. Prof. Yitzchak Kerem, Organizer of the First Sephardic March of the Living Trip to Salonika, Greece, and Poland. ykerem@actcom.co.il and kerems@actcom.co.il
- FYI… Wyman Brent, a non-Jewish resident of San Diego, CA, is seeking donations of books written in English on Jewish or Israeli themes or by Jewish authors, as well as DVDs, and CDs, for a Jewish Public Library he plans to open in Vilnius, Lithuania. Read more: http://vilniusjewishlibrary.wordpress.com/
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