Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
March 2008
gsi@genshoah.org
www.genshoah.org

Dear Members and Friends,

GSI has been actively working to help American survivors regain their right to take legitimate Holocaust era insurance claims to US Federal court. This edition contains information about the latest Congressional hearing, including a link to the actual hearing online. See the Restitution and FYI sections below to learn more about how this issue is being handled by the US Government. These efforts could have worldwide impact.

GSI joins the rest of the country in mourning the passing of Congressman Tom Lantos. We are especially grateful for his efforts on behalf of the survivor community with regard to the Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act (HR1746), which he championed. His commitment and support were demonstrated in the hearing on this legislation before the Foreign Affairs Committee, which Congressman Lantos chaired. We also acknowledge with gratitude the efforts of Mrs. Annette Lantos, which were extremely instrumental in moving this important legislation forward.

Yom Hashoah is approaching. If you want to have your Holocaust commemoration included in our newsletter, please send your information in : www.genshoah.org/contact_gsi.html.
Generations of the Shoah International (GSI)

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.

Search by section
Restitution
Announcements
Upcoming Conferences
Workshops & Seminars
Upcoming Events
 
FYI
Articles in the media
Ideas and Suggestions

RESTITUTION The US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee held a hearing on February 7, 2008 re: HR 1746 on Holocaust Era insurance.
To hear the opening comments of Congressman Robert Wexler, one of the co-sponsors of this legislation, as he explains what this legislation would and would not do: http://youtube.com/watch?v=b3Zk0gr-EIo

Please take the time to watch and read the testimonies. It is important for all of us to see what is happening in the US government. It is long but you can watch in installments by monitoring the timer on the bottom right of the screen and moving the bar that shows the time code. This is the list of people who testified:

Panel One: Ambassador J. Christian Kennedy, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, U.S. Department of State; Dr. Michael Kurtz, Assistant Archivist for Records Services, National Archives and Records Administration.
Panel Two: Mr. Stuart Eizenstat, Former Special Representative of the President & Secretary of State on Holocaust-Era Issues; Mr. Sam Dubbin, Esq., Attorney, Miami, Florida; Ms. Diane Koken, Former Vice-Chairman, ICHEIC; Former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner; Mr. Sidney Zabludoff, Former Consultant, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc.; Mr. Roman Kent, Chairman, American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors; Mr. Israel Arbeiter, President, American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston.

The questions/comments made by the Congressmen are very insightful and do not appear in the written testimonies of the panelists. To hear them, please go directly to the web cast at http://financialserv.edgeboss.net/wmedia/financialserv/hearing020708.wvx

The Coordinating Council of GSI wrote to the members of the committee in support of the legislation: www.genshoah.org/GSI_to_HFSC0208.pdf. To quote the testimony of Israel Arbeiter, we feel "There should be no legal peace for companies without moral peace for the survivors.”

There have been questions about applications for the German Government Ghetto Fund and the use of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History testimonies in this regard. The people at NYLAG (New York Legal Assistance Group): ldavidson@nylag.org, pbrochstein@nylag.org are willing to try to help.


ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Claims Conference is launching an electronic memoir project. For more information: http://Memoirs.claimscon.org

From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum With the upcoming 60th anniversary of the voyage of the Exodus, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, in partnership with the Israeli project “Exodus 1947,” seeks to locate and find the 4,500 passengers who were on this ship. Read more about the project

Note: The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has received over 3,000 requests for searches since the International Tracing Service papers went public. For more: www.ushmm.org.


UPCOMING CONFERENCES

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 Responsibility to Protect: A Framework For Confronting Identity-based Atrocities
March 10-11, 2008
Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, NY
Presented by Cardozo's Program in Holocaust & Human Rights Studies, registration is free but reservations are required. For conference details, see www.cardozo.yu.edu./R2PConference. To register, call 212-790-0455 or email: r2pconference@gmail.com.
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/
Soviet Jewish Soldiers, Jewish Resistance, and Jews in the USSR during the Holocaust
November 16-17, 2008
NYU's Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York City
International call for papers: For information: sbrown-fleming@ushmm.org. The deadline for receipt of proposals is 15 March 2008.
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

Teaching the Holocaust: Lessons for the Future
Ateret Cohn Holocaust Educators Symposium
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
Women in the Partisans Teacher Institute
Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
March 13, 2008   4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Participants will receive JPEF's DVD, Every Day the Impossible: Women in the Partisans, narrated by Tovah Feldshuh, as well as study guides and posters for their classrooms. Light meal and refreshments. Free, 2 professional development credits. Please RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194. For more information on JPEF visit www.jewishpartisans.org. Presented by The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF) in cooperation with the Holocaust Council of MetroWest and the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education.
The Roots of the Holocaust:The Politics and Policies
Of Nazism and Anti-Semitism in Germany, 1930 – 1939
Spring Workshop for High School Teachers
March 18, 2008 9:00 am- 1:00 pm
Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
For more information, see www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/031808roots.pdf
To register, www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/031808reg.pdf
Facing History and Ourselves Workshop:
The Armenian Genocide & its Legacy in the 21st Century
March 19, 2008 8:30 am - 2:30 pm
Monmouth University West Long Branch, New Jersey
For more information, see www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/031908gen.pdf
Online Seminar: Holocaust and Human Behavior
March 27, 2008 Apply Now!
Fees. Graduate credits are available through Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. For more: Facing History and Ourselves
Learning Through Experience for Middle Schools
What Can We Do As Individuals and Nations to Prevent and Stop Genocides?
April 8 & 9, 2008   9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Raritan Valley Community College Somerville, NJ
For details and registration form for this program for students and educators, see www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/04080908exp.pdf
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 – 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 2, 2008 – Center Stage, 48 West 21st Street, New York, NY
Performance of Who Will Carry the Word? Based upon the true story of Charlotte Delbo, Who Will Carry the Word depicts the lives of 23 women while they shared a barracks in Auschwitz. Their goal: to keep the strongest of them alive so that someone could share what they had experienced with the world. For tickets: www.theatermania.com.
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 - March 26, 2008 – Frankenmuth Historical Museum, Frankenmuth, MI
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Schindler. For more information: www.ushmm.org
Now – March 28, 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 documents and photographs 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
Now - 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.
Now – April 6, 2008 – The 808 Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Exhibit: Power of Prejudice: The Dreyfus Affair. The Dreyfus Affair, which saw anti-Jewish riots in every major city in France in 1898, almost caused civil war in France, and was at once a dress rehearsal for the Holocaust and the crucial episode in the birth of Zionism. For more: www.bu.edu/hillel/documents/dreyfus.pdf
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 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.
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 – 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.
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 4, 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
Now – July 25, 2008 – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
Exhibit: Sosúa: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic. In 1938, when openings for Jewish refugees were hard to find, the government of the Dominican Republic offered to resettle up to 100,000 Jews. Sosúa, an abandoned banana plantation, would become a refuge to hundreds of Jews. This exhibit tells how the settlers were recruited and came to Sosúa, what awaited them there, what role the Dominican and U.S. governments and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee played, how the settlers worked with their Dominican neighbors to establish themselves, and what kind of a town they created. For more: www.mjhnyc.org
Now – August 31, 2008 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Exhibit: Escaping Their Boundaries: The Children of Theresienstadt features objects on loan from the Beit Theresienstadt Holocaust Museum, Archive and Educational Center in Israel, including collages, drawings, diaries, magazines, games and marionettes used or created by children of the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia. Many of the artifacts have never before been on public display. For more information: www.hmh.org
March 2, 2008, 1:30 p.m. – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
Warsaw: A Musical Drama (Staged Reading). This fictionalized musical drama featuring an ensemble of Broadway actors is based on the true story of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Fees. For more information: 646-437-4202, www.mjhnyc.org
March 2, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, Boston University, Boston, MA
Symposium: Catalyst to History: Why Dreyfus Matters. The Dreyfus Affair was at once a dress rehearsal for the Holocaust and the crucial episode in the birth of Zionism. Host: Dan Abrams with panelists Alan M. Dershowitz, Jeffery Mehlman and Robert Zelnic. For more: www.bu.edu/hillel/documents/dreyfus.pdf
March 2, 2008, 5:00- 7:30 p.m. – Cronin Auditorium, St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York, NY
Staged reading of Eavesdropping on Dreams, the story of three generations of women in a Holocaust survivor's family. It conveys the family dynamics and cross-generational transmission of the Holocaust trauma, interweaving dreams, historical material and authentic songs from the Lodz Ghetto. The audience will be invited to share reactions and reflections on trans-generational transmission of trauma. Fees. Registration required: 212 307-0079 or rlih@aol.com
March 2, 2008, 7-10 p.m. – Gratz College 7605 Old York Road, Melrose Park, PA
Program: Jewish Genetics and Genealogy. Keynote address by Jon Entine, author of Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People, choice of 11 second hour classes and kosher dessert reception. Fees. For brochure, call Lynne Balaban: 215-884-3944.
March 2, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Workmen’s Circle, 1525 S. Robertson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Film: House of the Generals. The film tells a Ukrainian Holocaust story of survival. The film’s directory, Dan Spigel, will introduce the film. Fees. For more information: 214-384-5499
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 3, 2008, 5:00-8:00 p.m. – Bureau of Jewish Education, 520 Eighth Ave, New York, NY
Free teacher institute: Women in the Partisans, the nearly forgotten history of thousands of young Jewish women who fought back against the Germans and their collaborators as organized, armed resistance fighters. Participants will receive our free DVD, Every Day the Impossible: Women in the Partisans. Light dinner provided. To sign up: call 415.563.2244 or vlad@jewishpartisans.org. www.jewishpartisans.org/pdfs/NY_JPEF_flyer.pdf.
March 4 – August 17, 2008 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Exhibit Darfur: Photojournalists Respond. For more: www.hmh.org.
March 4, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Ramapo College, The Birch Mansion, Mahwah, NJ
Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany with Dr. Atina Grossmann, Professor of History, Cooper Union, New York City. For more information, call: 201.684.7409 or e-mail: mriff@ramapo.edu
March 5, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
First Person is a program for the public featuring a series of conversations with Holocaust survivors. Featured speaker: Erika Eckstut. For more: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/
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 5, 2008, 6:30 p.m. – Goethe-Institut, 812 Seventh Street, NW, Washington, DC
Film and discussion: Facing Arthur. The film examines the impact of the Holocaust through the complex relationship between one survivor of the Holocaust and a third-generation German. RSVP by March 2, 2008 to kommnickr@ajc.org
March 6, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of MetroWest Real to Reel film series: The Shop on Main Street, the story of the relationship between an elderly, hard-of-hearing Jewish woman who owns a button shop and the amiable, but weak, carpenter appointed by the Nazis as her Aryan controller. Light refreshments will follow. Please RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
March 8, 2008, 1:30 p.m. – Times Cinema, Milwaukee, WI
Steal a Pencil for Me - This film is the incredible true story of a love imprisoned - Holland is under total Nazi occupation in 1943 when Jack and Ina fall in love. When the Jews are deported, the two young people are sent to the same concentration camp. They resort to writing secret love letters, which sustain them through the horrors of the war. Admission: $6. For more information: shoff1945@aol.com
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 9, 2008, 1:30 p.m. – Times Cinema, Milwaukee, WI
Steal a Pencil for Me – See listing for March 8, above. For more: shoff1945@aol.com
March 9, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Film and discussion: in part two of the Burden of Memory discussion clips from the films, Black Book, The Assault and Do You Understand Now Why I'm Crying? will be shown. Rolf Wolfswinkel, professor of modern history at New York University, will moderate. For more information: www.hmh.org.
March 10, 2008, 5:30 p.m. – Montclair State University, University Hall #1030, Montclair, NJ
When Thinking is Bound by Experience: Hannah Arendt, the Case of Eichmann, and the Banality of Evil. Dr. Jerome Kohn, Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at The New School and co-editor of The Jewish Writings: Hannah Arendt, will discuss Arendt’s controversial report on the trial of Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, her use of the phrase “the banality of evil” and explore her search for meaning in experience. For more information, please contact Dr. Jessica Restaino (restainoj@mail.montclair.edu or 973.655.7312)
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 12, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
First Person program with featured speaker Halina Peabody. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/
March 12, 2008, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. and March 13, 2008, 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. – College of St. Elizabeth, Dolan Performance Hall, Annunciation Center, Morristown, NJ
Screening of Purity Beats Everything, a film that relates the Danish experience during World War II to Danish responses to the Holocaust as well as to the whole issue of Apartheid. After the film, Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter, interviewed for the film, will share his experience as a child in Poland during the Holocaust and also his post-war experience in South Africa under Apartheid racial policies. Free admission. Refreshments. For more information or to register, contact Dr. Margaret Roman: mroman@cse.edu or 973-290-4313 for March 12 program or Dr. Harriet Sepinwall: hsepinwall@cse.edu or 973-290-4351 for March 13. www.cse.edu
March 13, 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. Free of charge, advance registration preferred. For questions or to register, please contact Laura at 201-837-9090 or email thelivingroom@jfsbergen.org
March 14, 2008, 8:00 p.m. – Adath Israel Congregation, Lawrenceville, NJ
Rabbi Grossman's D'Var Torah will explore Holocaust education as a tool for teaching tolerance in our society. For more information: 609-896-4977 x14, heddamorton@hotmail.com, hedda@adathisraelnj.org
March 15, 2008, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. – Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Music of Remembrance presents a free concert and lecture: Forbidden. For more information, 206-365-7770, info@musicofremembrance.org, or www.musicofremembrance.org
March 16, 2008, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
Free teacher institute: Women in the Partisans, the nearly forgotten history of thousands of young Jewish women who fought back against the Germans and their collaborators as organized, armed resistance fighters. Participants will receive our free DVD, Every Day the Impossible: Women in the Partisans. Lunch provided. To sign up: call 415.563.2244 or vlad@jewishpartisans.org. www.jewishpartisans.org/pdfs/NY_JPEF_flyer.pdf.
March 16, 2008, 3:00 p.m. – Congregation Tikvat Israel, Rockville, MD
Screening of the film About Face, the story of Jewish refugees who fought with the British and American armies. Special guest: Alice Masters whose late husband, Peter, is featured in the film. For more information: etfinder@juno.com.
March 17, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – JCC in Manhattan, New York, NY
3G NY is presenting an evening to discuss the Swiss Bank settlement. Tickets must be purchased through 3GNY More information: www.3gnewyork.org/upcoming.html. Purchase tickets through PayPal
March 17, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – The BrookSide, 93 Manalapan Ave, Freehold, NJ
Hadassah presents Mark it with a Stone. Speaker Sandy Rubenstein shares her father Joseph Horn's hope and strength in a presentation that combines an oral history of his struggle to survive the Holocaust with his Shoah Foundation testimony. Admission charge. Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to Iris at (732) 617-2451 by Monday, March 10, 2008.
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 19, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
First Person program with featured speaker Fanny Aizenberg. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/
March 19, 2008, 7:00 pm – Drew University Center, Room 107, Madison, NJ
Women & Genocide: Sexual Abuse of Women as a Tool of Genocide, with speaker Dr. Adeyinka M.A. Akinsulure-Smith, Senior Psychologist, Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture. For information: www.drew.edu/chs, email ctrholst@drew.edu or call 973/408-3600.
March 20, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – Jewish Community Center of Toledo, Sylvania, OH
Author Charles Weinblatt will discuss his book Jacob’s Courage: A Holocaust Love Story. For more: 419.724.0357 or barb@jewishtoledo.org
March 22, 2008, 8:00 p.m. – Elm Collection, 1150 S. Elm Dr., Los Angeles, CA
Second Generation of Los Angeles is having a Purim Party. Fees. To RSVP: Sodawater52@gmail.com.
March 23, 2008, 3:00 pm – Bart Leudeke Student Center Theater. Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
An Evening with Madame F, an internationally acclaimed musical drama created and performed by recording artist and scholar Claudia Stevens. Adopting the persona of an elderly musician who performed at Auschwitz, Stevens uses music actually played and sung by women inmates there. She draws on first-hand accounts to depict the struggle and moral dilemma of women who survived. The program is open to the public without charge. For additional information or to make a reservation, please call 609-987-8100.
March 26, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
First Person program with featured speaker Fritz Gluckstein. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/
March 26, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – ADL Conference Center, 605 Third Ave, New York, NY
Jewish Identity in Cartoons of the Warsaw Yiddish Press, a presentation by scholar and author Eddy Portnoy, detailing the history of Yiddish cartooning with examples. Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by March 19th by calling 212 88-7900 or email hidden-child@adl.org.
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 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 & his families’ 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. Fees. For more: Nancy Dershaw @ ndershaw@yahoo.com or Judi Hannes @ judihng@yahoo.com.
March 29 & 30, 2008, 1:30 p.m. – Times Cinema, Milwaukee, WI
The Memory Thief - A chance encounter with a Holocaust survivor gives an aimless young man thoughts that he embraces with frightening intensity. This film is a hypnotic psychological thriller. Admission: $6. For more information: shoff1945@aol.com
March 30, 2008 12:30 p.m. – Adath Israel Congregation, Lawrenceville, NJ
Lunch by reservation ($18) followed by program at 1:45 p.m. (no charge): The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal with Mark Weitzman, Director of the Task Force against Hate and Terrorism, Associate Director of Education for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Chief Representative of the Center to the UN, and Founding Director of the NY Tolerance Center. For more information: 609-896-4977 x14, heddamorton@hotmail.com, hedda@adathisraelnj.org
March 30, 2008, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. – Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16 St., New York, NY
New Research on America’s Response to Nazism and the Holocaust, a special session of the Organization of American Historians annual conference, hosted by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. Featuring: Prof. Stephen H. Norwood, Dr. Melissa Jane Taylor, Dr. Susan Subak and Prof. Laurel Leff with special guest panelist: Nancy Wechsler, Esq., a participant in the 1933 protests at Columbia University against a speech by Nazi Germany's ambassador. For more information: 202-434-8994 or www.WymanInstitute.org.
March 31, 2008, 3:30-5:15 p.m. – Ramapo College, H-Wing Auditorium Mahwah, NJ
Film: Witnessing for Posterity: The Trials of Adolf Eichmann and Sadam Husein with filmmaker Daniel B. Polin, Great Projects Film Company, Inc. For more information, contact the Ramapo Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at 201.684.7409 or e-mail: mriff@ramapo.edu
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.
March 31, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of MetroWest Real to Reel film series: Prisoner of Paradise, true story of Kurt Gerron, a successful German-Jewish actor and director, sent to Theresienstadt and forced by his captors to direct the pro-Nazi propaganda film, The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews. Light refreshments will follow. Please RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
April 1, 2008, 7:00 PM – Drew University Center, Room 107, Madison, NJ
Genocide, Forgiveness, and Healing: Religious, Philosophical, and Psychological Perspectives: A roundtable discussion with Prof. Christopher Boesel, Dr. Eva Gossman, Dr. Ani Kaylajian, Prof. Allan Nadler, Joseph Sebarenzi. For more information, www.drew.edu/chs, email ctrholst@drew.edu or call 973/408-3600.
April 2, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
First Person program with featured speaker Katie Altenberg. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/
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 7, 2008, 9:30 a.m.- 6:00 p.m. – Adath Israel Congregation, Lawrenceville, NJ
Bus trip, lunch and docent-led tour of the NY Tolerance Center. $65 per person. For more information: 609-896-4977 x14, heddamorton@hotmail.com, hedda@adathisraelnj.org
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 9, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
First Person program with featured speaker Ruth Griefer. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/
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 12, 2008, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. – Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Music of Remembrance presents a free concert and lecture: Timeless. For more information, 206-365-7770, info@musicofremembrance.org, or www.musicofremembrance.org
April 13, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Liberation Monument in Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ
Jewish War Veterans 18th annual Holocaust Commemoration. For more information: call 732 657-8926.
April 14, 2009, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Cafritz Art Center # 101, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD
Allison Leslie Gold, author of Anne Frank Remembered and Memories of Anne Frank will read from selected works. For more information: www.montgomerycollege.edu/orgs/humanities/
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 15, 2008, 12 noon – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of MetroWest: Lunch and Learn with concentration camp survivor Jean Gluck. Please bring a dairy lunch, beverage and cookies provided. RSVP and information, holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194
April 16, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
First Person program with featured speaker Herman Taube. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/
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 17, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of MetroWest Real to Reel film series: Korczak, true story of author and educator Dr. Janusz Korczak, director of the orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto. Light refreshments will follow. Please RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
April 25, 2008 – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Opening of the special exhibition: Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/olympics1936/index.php?source=banner
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, 10:00 a.m. – Drew University, Baldwin Gymnasium, Madison, NJ
8th Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Steal a Pencil for Me: Film screening and comments by Jack and Ina Polak. For more information, www.drew.edu/chs, email ctrholst@drew.edu or call 973/408-3600.
April 30, 2008, 6:45 p.m. – Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, 88th St. Sanctuary, New York, NY
Yom HaShoah Commemoration Service followed by screening of the documentary film, Rene and I: From Auschwitz to America, the story of Jewish Czech twins Irene and Rene, sent to Auschwitz at age six. They survived three years in the camp, where they were experimented on by Josef Mengele. Separated after liberation, they reunited years later in the United States. Q & A with Irene Hizme moderated by Myriam Abramowicz. For more information, please call 212 579-4687.
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 1, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, 280 Ramapo Valley Road (Route 202), Mahwah, NJ
Yom HaShoah Commemoration Service, in cooperation with Ramapo College Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, featuring author and Shoah survivor Elly Gross, the CantaNova Singers, the Ramapo Chorale and the Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom Choir. For more information, please call 201.684.7409 or e-mail: mriff@ramapo.edu
May 1, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – JCC on the Palisades, Tenafly, NJ
Yom HaShoah Commemoration with guest speaker Gerda Klein, performance by the Moriah Academy Dinner Choir, candle lighting ceremony and presentation of the Abe Oster Holocaust Remembrance Award. Free. For more information, or to register, visit www.jccotp.org or call 201.569.7900 x 253
May 2, 2008, 8:00 p.m. – Temple Emanu-El of West Essex, 264 W. Northfield Rd, Livingston NJ
Shabbat Yom HaShoah commemoration: Goodbye Amsterdam, Hello New York. Speaker Jerry von Halle will describe his experience coming to America after surviving the Holocaust in the Netherlands. For more information, please contact holocaust@emanuel.org or (973) 992-5560.
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
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, 3:30 p.m. – Congregation Emanu-El, New York, NY
Yom Hashoah: Annual Gathering of Remembrance. For more information or to reserve tickets: AGR@MJHNYC.ORG.
May 4, 2008, 4:00 p.m. – Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, Maitland, FL
Yom Hashoah Commemoration with guest speaker: The Hon. Dr. Gregg Rickman, the US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. For information: 407-628-0555, eva@holocaustedu.org
May 4, 2008, 5:00 p.m. – Temple Beth Ami, Travilah Road, Rockville, MD
Area wide Yom Hashoah Commemoration with keynote speaker David Harris, Executive Director, American Jewish Committee. For more information: etfinder@juno.com.
May 7, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
First Person program with featured speaker Martin Weiss. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/
May 14, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
First Person program with featured speaker Rabbi Jacob Wiener. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/
May 21, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
First Person program with featured speaker Nesse Godin. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/
May 21, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Sylvania Historical Society, Sylvania, OH
A night with Charles S. Weinblatt, author of Jacob's Courage: A Holocaust Love Story. Weinblatt will discuss the inspiration, research, family history and effort behind the writing of his new epic Holocaust love story. For more: 419-882-4976, 419-350-4105, or at historymom@sev.org
May 28, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
First Person program with featured speaker Charlene Schiff. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/

FYI: For your information

FYI…   If survivors have questions or concerns about how their Shoah Foundation testimonies are accessed or used, please contact the USC Shoah Foundation Institute directly: 213-740-6001, vhi-acc@usc.edu. The USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive of nearly 52,000 testimonies is currently available at 12 universities/museums via Internet2 (a private broadband network). In addition, collections of testimonies -- i.e. subsets of the archive -- are available at many locations around the world for public viewing.

Testimonies can be viewed on-site at these locations, but copies of testimonies cannot be made for unauthorized users. To see all of the sites where USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimonies are available, please visit www.usc.edu/vhi/testimoniesaroundtheworld

FYI…   Since the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened its doors in 1993, genocide has taken place in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan. Civilians have been threatened in Democratic Republic of Congo, Chechnya, and Burundi. The challenge of preventing and responding to genocide remains urgent. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites all to submit an op-ed video addressing the following contest question: What advice would you give the next United States president on preventing and responding to threats of genocide and related crimes against humanity?

The winner will be flown to Washington, D.C. to attend the Days of Remembrance Ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda (April 29-May 1, 2008), tour the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and receive a gift certificate to the Museum’s bookstore. Videos must be posted and submitted via the Museum’s YouTube video contest group at www.youtube.com/group/opedcontest no later than March 15, 2008. For registration, rules, guidelines, and resources to use in your video, visit //www.ushmm.org/conscience/action/events/2008_contest/more/#video.

FYI…    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum now offers audio, video, and text documents in the “Beyond Campus” area of iTunes U, a dedicated section of the iTunes Store offering free education content. Join the more than 250 colleges and universities that already use iTunes U, where students and educators are able to download Museum content directly to their computers, iPods, or other media players. LEARN MORE ABOUT iTUNES U . If you already have an iTUNES account ACCESS MUSEUM CONTENT
FYI…   From the Austria-Czech Special Interest Group (SIG) The purpose of our group is to serve as a forum for the exchange of genealogical and historical information relating to the Jewish communities that once existed in Austria and the Czech Republic (Bohemia and Moravia). We would also like to gather information about life there and make it available on-line to those who are interested. www.jewishgen.org/austriaczech/
FYI…   The Nuremberg Municipal Library has in its collection c 10,000 confiscated books illegally taken from Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution. The Library has been carrying out provenance research and has so far identified 115 Jewish former owners whom it wishes to trace. The 115 former owners were residents of Nuremberg and Franconia and the Library has compiled a list including their names, addresses and occupations. The London-based Commission for Looted Art in Europe and its sister organisation, the Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945, have published the list of former owners on their website http://www.lootedart.com/MVL106734651 and will provide free assistance and guidance to any heirs and descendants to enable restitution. info@lootedartcommission.com
 
FYI...  Articles in the media
Tom Lantos left behind human rights legacy www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2008021120080211lantosobituary.html
Reflections on Lantos
A Jew for all seasons ‹ Lantos, 80, mourned www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=14&ArticleID=8388&TM=67074.27
Israel Museum exhibits hope to match looted Holocaust art with owners www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1202742141844
Holocaust victims deserve better http://ros-lehtinen.blogtownhall.com/default.aspx?mode=day&year=2008&month=02&day=07&page
Groups hit on Holocaust insurance bill
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106869.html
Passions erupt at House hearing over Holocaust insurance bill
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2008021220080212kentfrank.html
Survivor to protest congressman's conduct
http://jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106995.html
Survivor group defends pursuit of restitution
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107137.html
Court to rule on Holocaust orphans compensation lawsuit
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1204127193626
Those who treat Holocaust survivors get new guidebook
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1203019397407
Holocaust survivors: Handle with care
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1203605157163
Relevance and vision cure for ‘Shoa fatigue’
http://njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/022108/commRelevanceAndVision.html
Jewish remains found in Ukraine
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107133.html
The Holocaust and Jewish History
http://jpundit.typepad.com/jci/2008/01/the-holocaust-a.html
Condoning genocide
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1203518555000
Moscow - Putin's Jewish Anomaly Comes as a Surprise
www.vosizneias.com/2008/02/moscow-putins-jewish-anomaly-comes-as.html
Analysis: Berlin's ambiguous relationship with Israel
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1202657415753
Struggling to Squelch an Internet Rumor
www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/education/27education.html?_r=2&scp=5&sq=Holocaust&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Teaching French kids about the Holocaust
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=29&ArticleID=8403&TM=84102.83
By Making Holocaust Personal to Pupils, Sarkozy Stirs Anger
Sarkozy defends Holocaust proposal amid uproar
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1511891620080215?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=22&sp=true
ANALYSIS: Sarkozy's Holocaust education plan baffles Jews
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/955859.html
Sarkozy's Brave Move
http://www.nysun.com/article/71759
Panel to tweak French plan on Shoah
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107246.html
Paris France - Sarkozy Drops Holocaust Education Proposal
http://www.vosizneias.com/2008/02/paris-france-sarkozy-drops-holocaust.html
Nazi camp guard dies before trial
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107140.html
ADL Calls For Spanish Regional Parliament To Approve Holocaust Resolution
www.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/5221_52.htm
US institute raps historians over Allied response to Shoah
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1202064572732
Polish rabbinical group is re-established
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107130.html
A (growing) family affair WJW article helps spark reunion of lost kin
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=8408&TM=84033.77
Strange Migration: An Unlikely Haven For Refugees
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB120304705347970953-lMyQjAxMDI4MDEzNjAxNDY3Wj.html
Shoa reparations attorney faces disbarment
www.njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/020708/njShoaReparationsAttorney.html
Lawyer gets jail time for bilking Holocaust survivors
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107075.html
Belarus Holocaust memorial vandalized
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107017.html
Passaic woman recalls flight to freedom
www.myheraldnews.com/view.html?type=stories&action=detail&sub_id=27632
Exhibit shows Jewish contribution to WWII
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=27&SubSectionID=25&ArticleID=8418&TM=84275.51
Somebody had to make a start
http://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=30&ArticleID=8405&TM=84163.72
Austria's Oscar nominee explores Jewish dilemma during the Shoah
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2008021920080219Counterfeiters.html
Austria's 'Counterfeiters' wins Oscar, beats out Israeli film
Surviving 'counterfeiter' celebrates Oscar victory
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2008022620080226burgercounterfeiters.html
Seeing the Shoah in Darfur Teacher's inspiration leads teen to DVD fund-raise
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=27&SubSectionID=25&ArticleID=8415&TM=84275.51
Abjuring Holocaust study in Russia
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106750.html
Jewish tourist booted from Belgian café
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106926.html
Two arrested in Chicago for hate crimes
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106789.html
Rhetoric of far-right group finds reception in Hungary
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2008022120080220roma.html
MP compares European Parliament to Nazis
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106766.html
British students to visit Auschwitz
www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=4899
Psychology of the Shoah Holocaust educators hold reunion conference
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=8399&TM=193.846
Lithuania investigating Holocaust historian
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107240.html
Hoping for a miracle, looted art exhibit opens
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203343700040&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Saatchi makes space for a candy-coloured Himmler
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article3295311.ece
Historic Torah Dedicated on US Navy Ship
Photo of Anne Frank’s ‘true love’ surfaces
http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/2008/02/26/photo-of-anne-franks-true-love-surfaces/
Hitler singer takes stage again
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107116.html
From skinhead to skullcap
http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/2008/02/26/from-skinhead-to-skullcap/
Vandals strike memorial to Austrian Jews
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107222.html
No Laughs, No Thrills, and Villains All Too Real
www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/books/27holocaust.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
German intellectuals: Israel's creation made Palestinians victims of Holocaust
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/955766.html
Holocaust float nixed in Brazil:
www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/01/31/rio.carnival.ap/
Herman Taube celebrates 90th birthday
http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=10&SubSectionID=10&ArticleID=8429&TM=40701.22
FYI…   To read the text of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's Speech at CRIF (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France): www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b.3908711/
FYI…   MTV: What the events of the Holocaust would look like in modern-day America: www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/struggle/27634/USA_-_MTV_videos_take_look_at_Holocaust
FYI…   2008 Holocaust Remembrance Project Essay Contest Information Open to American students 19 years old and younger. Deadline: April 30, 2008. For details: www.holocaust.hklaw.com/2008/index.asp#
FYI…   The Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University will host the First International Graduate Students' Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies April 23 – 26, 2009. The conference will provide a forum for graduate students to present original research papers to peers and established scholars. Participants will be able to forge scholarly ties from which further cooperation and research may evolve. This interdisciplinary conference will reflect the full range of issues, concepts, and methods in current Holocaust and Genocide Studies; accordingly applications from graduate students in all fields and from countries around the world are invited. A Call For Papers (deadline of August 15, 2008) was recently issued. For more information, please see the full text of the Call For Papers: www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=160563
FYI…   On March 14th, A Commemorative Sculpture in honour of the British People will be unveiled at Westbahnhof railway station in Vienna under the patronage of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Austria. The sculpture Für Das Kind-Vienna by artist Flor Kent, celebrates the British role in rescuing thousands of Austrian children, mostly Jewish, through operation Kindertransport from 1938 to 1939. The rescue movement was unique in that Jews, Quakers, and Christians of many denominations worked together to save the children. The tribute will coincide with the 70th anniversary of the “Anschluss”– the Annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. For more information or to attend the ceremony please contact ventec@blueyonder.co.uk or call 44-20-89445350 or 44-20-89440028.
FYI…   The new Center for Holocaust Studies within Jagiellonian University in Poland was inaugurated on January 17, 2008. Among the tasks of the Center for Holocaust Studies are conducting academic research and teaching courses concerning the Holocaust and in other subject areas directly related with it; disseminating information about the Holocaust and other genocides by organizing conferences, seminars, summer schools, lectures, readings and exhibitions, and also by publishing original materials and creating electronic databases. For more information: maja.brand@uj.edu.pl
FYI…   My name is Rivka Schiller and I am the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors from Poland. I am conducting research on child survivors who were in Italy after the war, living temporarily in "Displaced Persons" or transit camps. I am specifically interested in speaking with child survivors who were in the following camps in Italy: Bari, Cremona, Rome. I will appreciate any possible information on this subject. rivkaschiller@yahoo.com or work telephone: 212-246-6080 x6129
FYI…   Visual artist Lola Fraknoi has a web site of her artwork, drawn from and playing with her experience as a child of Survivors. She invites everyone to visit the site and leave comments. She welcomes suggestions for places to show the work: www.mesart.com/lola
FYI…   
PLEASE NOTE: Notices are provided for information purposes only. Generations of the Shoah International and its coordinating council members, agents and representatives make no representations, guarantees or warranties about the services offered, and any person considering whether or not to use those services relies entirely on his or her own investigation and evaluation of the services offered and assumes all risk and responsibility regarding the use of or failure to use those services.
We are happy to include news on events / projects in your local communities. If you want to tell us what you are doing, just send us an e-mail at GSI@genshoah.org and we will print it in a future newsletter. We encourage you to share this newsletter with Holocaust Survivors, your families and friends. To join GSI and receive future newsletters, to volunteer for / suggest a committee, to recommend a resource person or to submit a book recommendation, or program information, contact us at GSI@genshoah.org or visit our website at www.genshoah.org.
GSI Coordinating Council:
Esther Finder, Anat Bar-Cohen [The Generation After, DC];
Klara Firestone [Second Generation, LA, CA]; Sandy Hoffman [Generations After, WI];
Dina Cohen, Barbara Wind [Generations of the Shoah, NJ];
Bonnie Stein [Generations After, Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg. FL];
Ken Engel [CHAIM, MN]; Pepi Nichols [Second Generation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Houston, TX];
David Kader [Phoenix Holocaust Survivors' Assoc]; Charles Silow [CHAIM, MI]; Daniel Brooks [3G NY]
Webmaster: Anna Schiffer.