Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
May 2008
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Dear Members and Friends,
Due to the unusually large number of Holocaust commemorations on May 1^st, we are distributing this edition of the newsletter a day earlier than usual. We hope this affords our readers the chance to see what programs are being held with enough time for them to attend.

Generations of the Shoah International (GSI) is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that charges no fees, solicits no funds, and will not accept any money that might be used for helping needy Holocaust survivors. We reach tens of thousands of survivors, their children and grandchildren and serve as a bridge between the survivors and the major Holocaust-related organizations / institutions worldwide. We have helped scholars, students, authors, filmmakers, etc, free of charge. GSI will continue to help preserve the legacy of the Holocaust by uniting the survivor community, honoring the memory of our loved ones killed in the Shoah, and supporting commemorations and educational programming.

As a personal commemoration to Yom Hashoah, please consider making donations to the Holocaust organization / institution of your choice. Remember there are Jewish social service agencies around the world that could use your support.

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RESTITUTION The Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Democracy and Human Rights will hold a hearing on the Holocaust Era Insurance issue on May 6, 2008. For more information: gsi@genshoah.org

ANNOUNCEMENTS
From the Claims Conference
The Claims Conference has no objection to making publicly available a list of individual properties in the former East Germany recovered and sold by the Successor Organization and the amount of the proceeds for each property. http://claimscon.org/index.asp?url=news/successor042208 From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum:
Days of Remembrance: Now - May 4, 2008
Do Not Stand Silent: Remembering Kristallnacht 1938 www.ushmm.org/remembrance/dor/years/detail.php?content=2008

In 1992, Alexandra Zapruder began to collect diaries written by children during the Holocaust. These diaries speak eloquently of both hope and despair. To learn more: www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/voices/transcript/index.php?content=20080327 Museum Founding Chairman, Elie Wiesel, speaks with the Museum's Daniel out

Nobel Laureate and Museum Founding Chairman, Elie Wiesel, speaks with the Museum's Daniel Greene about contemporary antisemitism, memory, and the role of museums in remembering tragedy. Read the AAM article (PDF)

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

The Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators: June 22-24, 2008; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC
Teachers with less than five years’ experience in teaching about the Holocaust are encouraged to apply. The workshop is free of charge and includes many classroom resources. Participants are responsible for travel expenses. www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/prodev/belfer/2008/.

The 6^th 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
For information: sbrown-fleming@ushmm.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
For more information: Johannes-Dieter Steinert: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk

The International Conference of Holocaust Museum and Holocaust Center Curators: Houston, TX; March 1 – 5, 2009
Presented by the Holocaust Museum Houston in conjunction with the Association of Holocaust Organizations. For more information: ccapers@hmh.org

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS

Changing the Bystander to an Upstander: Mercer County Community College Conference Center; 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, NJ; May 28, 2008 8:30 am - 2:30 pm
Free, for all professional educators. Lunch, materials and 5 professional development hours provided. Register via email to holocaus@doe.state.nj.us More information at: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/052808upstander.pdf.

June 23-27, 2008; Evanston, IL
Northwestern University (www.northwestern.edu), in partnership with the Holocaust Educational Foundation (www.holocaustef.org), is offering a summer institute for secondary school teachers (grades 7-12). Full tuition scholarships will be provided to the 15 participants. Deadline: May 23, 2008

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
International Scholarly Workshop
Studying Antisemitism in the 21^st 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 – 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 – May 9, 2008 – University of Baltimore Law School, Baltimore, MD: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Varian Fry: Assignment Rescue 1940-1941. For more: www.ushmm.org.

Now – May 11, 2008 – Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Storefront Theater 66 E Randolph Dr, Chicago, IL: Performance: Hana's Suitcase. After a mysterious suitcase bearing the name "Hana Brady" arrives at the Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center from Poland, two Japanese students and their teacher embark on a worldwide journey to discover the story behind the name. For more: http://www.chicagochildrenstheatre.org/hanas-suitcase.html

Now – May 16, 2008 – USC Hillel Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA: Photo Exhibit: Marked for Life, work by Carol Inez Charney who was inspired by the tattoos imposed on Auschwitz prisoners. For more information: 213-747-9135.>

Now - 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.

Now – May 25, 2008 – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL: Exhibit: Tous Ensemble by Marc Ash. This mixed media exhibit pays homage to the races, cultures, religions, and peoples who are victims of intolerance and extremist ideology. Fees. For more: www.flholocaustmuseum.org

Now – May 30, 2008 – Hillel House, University of Washington, Seattle, WA: Exhibit: Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps. This is a collection of rare Holocaust-era documents and photographs that 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

Now – June 8, 2008 – Stage Door Theater, Coral Springs, FL: Daughter of survivors, Deb Filler, performs in her one-woman show Filler Up. For more information: www.stagedoortheatre.com/fillerup.html

Now - June 9, 2008 – Temple Israel, Omaha, NE: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945. For more information: 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 - 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.

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 17, 2008 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX: Exhibit Darfur: Photojournalists Respond. For more: www.hmh.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

Exhibition, The Greatest Crime of the War: The Armenian Genocide during World War I. For more: www.flholocaustmuseum.org or (727) 820 – 0100 ext. 234.

Now – October 19, 2008 – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL

May 1, 2008, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. – Greenburgh Hebrew Center, 515 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry NY: Martin Spett, Holocaust survivor, presents slides of his artwork depicting life in ghetto and concentration camps; also exhibit of Courage to Care. Free and open to the public. Groups require reservations. For more information: Helene Alalouf 917 941 7577 or halalouf@aol.com

May 1, 2008, 10:00 a.m. – Warsaw Ghetto Square, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel: Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes Remembrance Day Wreath-laying ceremony with the participation of public figures, representatives of survivor organizations, school children and delegations from throughout the country. For more: www.yadvashem.org.

May 1, 2008, 11:00 a.m. –Rutgers University–Newark, Paul Robeson Center Rm. 232, 350 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Newark, NJ: 21st Annual Newark Holocaust Observance. Keynote speaker Clarence Lusane, Ph.D, Associate Professor at American University’s School of International Service and author of the book Hitler’s Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks and African Americans in the Nazi Era. Please call 973-733-8004 to RSVP, reservations required.

YOM HASHOAH COMEMORATIONS

May 1, 2008, 11:00 a.m. – Anshei Emuna Congregation, Delray Beach, FL: Yom Hashoah Commemoration: For more: 561-499-9118

May 1, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – Congregation Har Tzeon-Agudath Achim, Wheaton, MD: Senior Lunch and Learn Program with daughter of survivors, Margarete Diener Levy, who will discuss her family's experiences. For more: bibliotechie@yahoo.com

May 1, 2008, 1:30 p.m. – ADL Conference Center, 605 Third Ave, New York, NY: The Hidden Child Foundation/ADL Yom Hashoah Commemoration featuring Irit Felsen, Ph.D, clinical psychologist and second generation; Janet Kirscheimer, poet and second generation; and Alexis Konigsberg, Cantor and third generation. Please RSVP at 212 885-7900 or hidden-child@adl.org

May 1, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Temple Emeth, Delray Beach, FL: Commemoration: And you shall tell your children: Passing the Legacy and Remembrance from Generation to Generation. For more: 561-498-3536

May 1, 2008, 4:00 p.m. – Temple Anshei Shalom, 7099 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, FL: Commemorative services and special presentation by Janice Friebaum: Life Through the Lens of a Survivor's Daughter: The View from Here. For more: 561-499-1884.

May 1, 2008, 6:00 p.m. – Marlboro Jewish Center Hebrew School, 103 School Rd West, Marlboro, NJ: 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. For more information call 732 536-2303.

May 1, 2008, 6:30 p.m. – Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY: 65^th Annual Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Commemoration with distinguished novelist Thane Rosenbaum and world-renowned Klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals. For more information: www.circle.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. Torchlight parade begins at 6:30 pm at Grove Park, program begins at 7:15 pm. 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, 6:30 p.m. – University of Texas Hillel, Austin, TX: Community-Wide Commemorative Yom Hashoah featuring Professor Mira Binford, Ph.D. and her documentary, Diamonds in the Snow. RSVP requested to Elaine Vasquez at (512) 735-8012 ext. 17. www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/scjs/content/news/PDF/YomHaShoah.pdf

May 1, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University, Waltham, MA: Readings by poets who are featured in Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust. For more information: 781-209-1700/800-808-CDIA

May 1, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY: The only living relative of the "Polish Anne Frank," Zahava Scherz commemorates her half-sister, Rutka Laskier, and the release of Rutka's lost diary. For more info and to RSVP: www.kruppkommunications.com/rutka

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 1, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Congregation Beth Emeth, Lea Boulevard, Wilmington, DE: Memorial service and dedication of Holocaust Memorial Garden. For more information: alonzo@kennett.net

May 1, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Gratz College, Melrose Park, PA: Janusz Makuch, Director of the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, will discuss his goal of ending anti-Semitism in Poland through education and enjoyment of Jewish music. Michael Winograd and his Klezmer band will perform after the presentation. Fees. Call Dodi at 215-635-7300 x 136 to charge by phone or www.gratzcollege.edu

May 1, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Boca Raton Synagogue, Boca Raton, FL: Yom Hashoah Commemoration featuring the film More Precious Than Pearls. For more information: 561-394-0394

May 1, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL: Yom Hashoah Commemoration with special speaker, Holocaust survivor and professor of Sociology at Georgia State University Eugen Schoenfeld. Free and open to the public. For more information: www.flholocaustmuseum.org

May 1, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – McHenry County Jewish Community Center, Crystal Lake, IL: Voices of the Generations, a presentation by Julie Kohner, who tells her survivor mother's story through a video from the 1950's TV show, This is Your Life. For more: 815-455-1810

May 1, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Congregation Emanu El, Houston, TX: Annual Yom Hashoah services in memory of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust during World War II. For more: www.hmh.org

May 1, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA: Screening of: Creating Harmony, uplifting narrative of a displaced persons' orchestra, following several musician's journeys from Vilna and Kovno, to Dachau, and ultimately to the Displaced Persons' Camp of St. Ottilien, Germany where Leonard Bernstein led them in concert. For tickets/information: www.coolidge.org

May 1, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Cooperman JCC, 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ: Film screening and panel discussion: Fugitive Pieces. Based on the novel by Anne Michaels, the film tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII. For more information: jccmetrowest.org/filmfest.htmltickets, for tickets, www.boxofficetickets.com/jccmetrowest or call 973 530-3444.

May 1, 2008, 8:00 p.m. – Congregation Tikvat Israel, Rockville, MD: Yom Hashoah Remembrance Ceremony & Film, The Power of Good: This inspiring documentary tells the story of Nicholas Winton, a British citizen who saved over six hundred Jewish children from Czechoslovakia. It includes interviews of those children who finally discover who was responsible for their freedom. For more: http://tikvatisrael.org

May 1, 2008, 20:30 (8:30 p.m.) – Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv, Stage Two, Tel Aviv, Israel: Performance of the opera And the Rat Laughed. 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. For information: www.cameri.co.il/eng/contact.asp

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 1, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Congregation Beth Emeth, Lea Boulevard, Wilmington, DE: Memorial service and dedication of Holocaust Memorial Garden: Congregation Beth E meth. For more information: alonzo@kennett.net

May 1, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – McHenry County Jewish Community Center, Crystal Lake, IL: Voices of the Generations, a presentation by Julie Kohner, who tells her survivor mother's story through a video from the 1950's TV show, This is Your Life. For more: 815-455-1810

May 1, 2008, 20:30 – Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv, Stage Two, Tel Aviv, Israel: Performance of the opera And the Rat Laughed. 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. For information: www.cameri.co.il/eng/contact.asp

May 2, 2008, 7:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.—State Capitol, 1100 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX: Reading of the names of the victims of the Holocaust. For information: Elaine Vasquez at (512) 735-8012 ext. 17; www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/scjs/content/news/PDF/YomHaShoah.pdf

May 2, 2008, 12:30 p.m. – City/County Building courtyard, 8th & French Sts, Wilmington DE: Candlelighting and prayers at the Holocaust Memorial. For information: alonzo@kennett.net

May 2, 2008, 7:30 p.m., May 3, 2008, 8:30 a.m. – Congregation Kol Haverim, Glastonbury, CT: Voices of the Generations, a presentation by Julie Kohner, who tells her survivor mother's story through a video from the 1950's TV show, This is Your Life. For more: 860 633-3966

May 2, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Congregation B’nai Israel, Boca Raton, FL: Honoring the Six Million at Shabbat Evening services. For more: 516-241-8118

May 2, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Temple Sinai of Palm Beach County, Delray Beach, FL: Keeping the Flame Alive. For more information: 561-276-6161

May 2, 2008, 7:30 p.m.—Temple Beth Shira, Boca Raton, FL: Yom Hashoah Commemoration. For more: 561-912-1453

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 4-10, 2008 – Grand Central Terminal Northeast Balcony, New York, NY: Exhibit: When Humanity Fails employs video, audio, and graphic narratives to explore and understand the Holocaust, focusing on the personal experiences of concentration camp survivors and their U.S. Army liberators. For more: barry@afikimfoundation.org or 212-791-7450

May 4, 2008, 9:15 a.m. – Mishkan Tefilah, Chestnut Hill, MA: Program: Remembering the Great Jewish Cities of Eastern Europe with a special viewing of five short films about Bialystok, Cracow, Kovno, Lodz, Lwow, Vilna and Warsaw, with featured speaker Dr. Justin Cammy. For reservations please call Mishkan Tefila 617.332.7770.

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, 1:00 p.m. – 16^th and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway (rain location is Congregation Rodeph Shalom, 615 North Broad Street), Philadelphia, PA: Yom Hashoah Commemoration with guest speaker Mark Talisman, President of the Project Judaica Foundation, who will address As the Branches of This Tree, So the Branches of Our People: Remember the Children. For information, call Amy Blum at 215-832-0655.

May 4, 2008, 1:30 p.m. – Jewish Community Campus, Overland Park, KS: Holocaust Memorial Service commemorates the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto. For more information: 913-327-8190

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, 2:00 p.m. – 4 Mountain Road, Tewskbury, NJ: Reading and reception for Mimi Schwartz, author of Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village and daughter of Holocaust survivors Barbara Wind, author of Walking on Ash, a book of Holocaust poems with translator Marlen Gabriel, daughter of a Wehrmacht soldier. Please RSVP at 908 832-5801 or sondraregine@patmedia.net

May 4, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Congregation Torah Ohr, Century Village, Boca Raton, FL: Annual Commemoration of the Holocaust. For more: 561-852-0771

May 4, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center, Milwaukee, WI: Community-wide Yom Hashoah Commemoration: Memorial to the Six Million; Remembrance of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and All Resistance - keynote speaker Professor Ruth Schwertfeger, author of Women of Theresienstadt: Voices from a Concentration Camp, candle lighting ceremony, presentation of the Habash Holocaust Youth Essay Contest winners. Free. For more information: shoff1945@aol.com or call the JCC 414-967-8217

May 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m. – Stroum Jewish Community Center, Mercer Island, WA: Remembrance Service at the Holocaust Memorial followed by a program at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation. For more: www.wsherc.org/programs/programs.aspx

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, 3:30 p.m. – Skokie Valley Traditional Synagogue, East Prairie Rd, Skokie, IL: Chicago area Yom Hashoah commemoration. For more information: primary247@aol.com

May 4, 2008, 4:00 p.m. – Food for Thought Books Collective, 106 N. Pleasant St, Amherst, MA: Readings by poets who are featured in Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust. For more: 413-253-5432

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 4:30 p.m. – Tatnall School Laird Arts Center, 1501 Barley Mill Road, Wilmington DE: Premier of documentary No Denying: Delawareans Bear Witness to the Holocaust in support of the Holocaust Education Endowment Fund. Tickets are $35, reservations only - contact Regina Kerr Alonzo at alonzo@kennett.net for more information.

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 4, 2008, 6:30 pm – Congregation B'nai Israel, Millburn, NJ: Voices of the Generations, a presentation by Julie Kohner, who tells her survivor mother's story through a video from the 1950's TV show, This is Your Life. For more: 973 379-3811.

May 4, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY: Israeli Contemporary String Quartet to perform Steve Reich’s Different Trains for Holocaust Remembrance Day. For more information and to purchase tickets: www.mjhnyc.org

May 4, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, Baltimore, MD: From Tragedy to Triumph: Israel at 60. Please join us as we pay tribute to the survivors and honor the birth of Israel. For more: jparmigiani@baltjc.org.

May 5, 2008, 9:45 a.m. – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ: Voices of the Generations, a presentation by Julie Kohner, who tells her survivor mother's story through a video from the 1950's TV show, This is Your Life. Please RSVP to Suzi Adelson Warner at 973-929-2980 or swainer@thepartnershipnj.org.

May 5 – 9, 2008 – Lincoln Park Jewish Center, 311 Central Avenue, Yonkers, NY: Survivors relate life in ghetto and concentration camps; also exhibit of Courage to Care. Program is open to the public and free. Groups require reservations. Speakers are:; May 5 - Jay Sommer [10-11; 12-1] escapee from Nazi labor camp; author of Journey to the Golden Door.; May 6 - Bettina Graf [10-11] lived under Nazi occupation in Austria; survived London blitz 1940 and torpedo on ship to U.S. (younger grades); May 6 - Betty Knoop [12-1] deported with her family from Holland to Bergen-Belsen via Westerbork and liberated at Trobitz by the Soviets.; May 7 - Bernard Storch [10-11] prisoner in labor camp in Siberia and then a Polish Army liberator of several camps, including Majdanek.; May 8 - Clara Knopfler [10-11] survivor of several concentration camps and a forced march.; May 8 - Lola Margulies [12-1] interned in Ghetto, then hidden underground in a bunker; May 9 - Alan Moskin [10-11] US Army liberator of several concentration camps; May 9 - Ursula Selig [12-1] hidden in Italy in several convents, a seminary, and in the woods For more information about these programs: Helene Alalouf 917 941 7577, halalouf@aol.com

May 6, 2008, 6:00 p.m. – The Conservative Synagogue, 30 Hillspoint Road, Westport, CT: 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. For more information: 203 454-4673

May 7, 2008, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Lincoln Theater, 1215 U Street, NW, Washington, DC: 15th Annual Federal Interagency Holocaust Remembrance program entitled Stories from the Rescuers – Narratives of the Holocaust. 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 7, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16 St., New York, NY: Lecture and book signing: From Dachau to D-Day, a Memoir by Werner Kleeman with Elizabeth Uhlig. Werner Kleeman left Germany after Kristallnacht and was later drafted into the US Army. As a young American officer in the spring of 1945, he was able to arrest the Nazi who arrested him in November 1938. Fees. Reservations required. For more information and reservations, see www.lbi.org/programs.html or call 212-744-6400.>

May 8, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16 St., New York, NY: Poland and the Jews: Before and After the Holocaust. Jan Gross, Professor of History, Princeton University, will discuss Polish reaction to his newest book, Fear. With over 90% of Polish Jewry killed in the Holocaust, how was a pogrom and anti-semitism possible in Kielce, Poland? A discussion follows with Deborah E. Lipstadt, Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Emory University, and the audience. Fees. For reservations/ inquiries: Smarttix 212-868-4444 / www.smarttix.com

May 8, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL: Artist Talk with Marc Ash, creator of Tous Ensemble mixed media exhibit. Fees. For more: www.flholocaustmuseum.org

May 9, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Fifth Avenue Synagogues, New York, NY: Shabbat dinner featuring author and survivor Fanya Gottesfeld Heller. Fees. RSVP by May 7: for information and registration: shiri@jewishexperience.org or call 212-787-9533 x204

May 12, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA: Musical performance: Ray of Sunshine with Paul Schoenfield. Fees. For more information www.musicofremembrance.org

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 14, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Barnes & Noble, 765 Route 17 South, Paramus NJ: Readings, Reflections and Refreshments to celebrate the reprinting of Mark It with a Stone by Joseph Horn with a new introduction by Sandy Rubenstein. Please RSVP to Bonnie Adler at 203 227-7903 or badler@optonline.net

May 15, 2008, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. – The Living Room at Jewish Family Service of Bergen County, 1485 Teaneck Rd, Teaneck, NJ: Survivor Families into the Future: An Evolution of Self and Relationships. Dr. Irit Felsen, clinical psychologist specializing in treatment of trauma and its trans-generational transmission, will lead a discussion addressing the changing dynamics in survivor families as survivors age and imparting the legacy. . Fees. For questions or to register, please contact Laura at 201-837-9090 or email thelivingroom@jfsbergen.org

May 15, 2008, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: Lecture program: The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald with guest speaker Professor Kenneth Waltzer from Michigan State University. Reservations requested: 202-488-6162. For more information: www.ushmm.org.

May 17, 2008, morning service – Beth Sholom Congregation, Seven Locks Road, Potomac, MD: Special Shabbat service honoring Holocaust survivors followed by lunch and a program with several Ambassadors from European countries discussing anti-Semitism in their countries. Fees for lunch and RSVP required by May 5. For more information: gsmith@bethsholom.org or 301-279-7010 x225.

May 18, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ: Holocaust Council of MetroWest Real to Reel film series: The Optimists, true story of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust. Light refreshments will follow. Please RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.

May 20, 2008, 12:00 noon – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ: Holocaust Council of MetroWest: Lunch and Learn with WW II US army veteran Murray Lehrer. Please bring a dairy lunch, beverage and cookies provided. RSVP and information, holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194

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 21, 2008, 7 – 9:30 p.m. – Holocaust Memorial Foundation, Skokie, IL: Film: From Kristallnacht to Crystal Day: A Synagogue in Wroclaw Glows Again followed by a CD presentation of Felicia Pietrkowski Zieff's childhood photos from Wroclaw, Poland. All Children and Grandchildren of Survivors are welcome. Refreshments. Please RSVP to Felicia P. Zieff at: tzippy_chs@sbcglobal.net or 847-674-5189.

May 22, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Los Angeles, CA: Second Generation Los Angeles program: Caring for your aging Holocaust survivor parent presented by Bunni Dybnis of LivHome. Fees. For more information: KFire413@aol.com

May 25 – June 30, 2008 – Queensborough Community College, Queens, NY: Exhibit: When Humanity Fails employs video, audio, and graphic narratives to explore and understand the Holocaust, focusing on the personal experiences of concentration camp survivors and their U.S. Army liberators. For more: barry@afikimfoundation.org or 212-791-7450

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/

May 29, 2008, 7:00 pm. – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL: Opening Reception: Art from the Heart II, Art by Clients of PARC. Refreshments will be served. Free to members, General admission $10. For more: www.flholocaustmuseum.org

June 3, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: First Person with featured speaker Helen Luksenburg. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/

June 4, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: First Person with featured speaker Morris Rosen. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/

June 8, 2008, 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. – TBD, San Jose, CA: Reunion of a Gathering of Friends: European Holocaust Survivors and Japanese-American Internees. This year we are planning to also include second, and third generation from each culture, who will be passing on the stories and lessons learned from this significant period in history. DrDSchwarz@aol.com

June 10 – August 30, 2008 – National World War II Museum, New Orleans, LA: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Schindler For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/traveling/details/index.php?type=current&content=schindler

June 10, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: First Person with featured speaker Jacqueline Birn. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/

June 11, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: First Person with featured speaker Henry Greenbaum. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/

June 12 – November 11, 2008 – Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. For more information: www.ushmm.org.

June 12, 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

June 17, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: First Person with featured speaker Helen Goldkind. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/

June 17, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: First Person with featured speaker William Luksenburg. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/

June 18, 2008, 6:30 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: Please join us as we honor Miles Lerman - Holocaust survivor, partisan fighter, and a founding father of the Museum. Save the Date, invitation to follow. www.ushmm.org.

June 24, 2008, 12:00 noon – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ: Holocaust Council of MetroWest: Lunch and Learn with Holocaust survivor Regina Weiss. Please bring a dairy lunch. Beverage and cookies provided. RSVP and information, holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194

June 25, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: First Person program with featured speaker Louise Lawrence-Israels. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson

June 26, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

June 29, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Temple Judeah Mizpah, Niles Center Rd, Skokie, IL: The Assoc. of Descendants of the Shoah –IL, Sheerit Hapleitah and Holocaust Community Services present the Chicago premier of a new film: Yiddish Theater: A Love Story. (English with a little Yiddish with subtitles) Fees. For more: 847-674-5189 or tzippy_chs@sbcglobal.net

July 1, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

July 2, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

July 5, 2008 to July 27, 2008 – State University in State University, AR: 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.

July 8, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

July 9, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

July 16, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

July 23, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

July 29, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

July 30, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

FYI: For your information

FYI… The Survivor Mitzvah Project provides medicine, food, water and heat – really, the bare essentials – to aging survivors in Eastern Europe who are living in abject poverty.
FYI… Centropa is the Internet name for The Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation, which is registered as a non-profit corporation in the US, as a Verein in Austria and as a KHT and a foundation in Hungary. We are an international team of more than 100 historians, filmmakers, web designers, journalists, educators and Jewish community activists. Since the inception of our signature project, Jewish Witness to a European Century in early 2000, our initial goal has been to preserve 1,500 life histories and digitize 25,000 privately-held family photographs in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Moldavia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Turkey. Rather than focus on how Jews were murdered during the Shoah, Jewish Witness to a European Century is much more about the way they lived, and instead of using video in our interviews, we digitize their family pictures while asking them to tell us all about the people in those snapshots. To learn more: www.centropa.org/ or http://centropa.org/index.php?page=info_tpl&type=ruth&tfrom=0&tto=4&tid=
FYI… If Not Now; is an Internet Journal dedicated to providing optimum care and understanding for aging survivors and their families. We are interested in opening communications with professionals and agencies working with survivors involved in health care, community agencies, social and recreational services, restitution and reparation. We want to hear from survivors and their families, opening an ongoing dialogue across the international community. Your comments and discussion are welcome, as well as suggestions and submissions for future editions. www.baycrest.org/if_not_now/
FYI… CNN Headline News will air an interview with Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein May 4 and May 10, 2008 at 11:55 a.m., 4:55 p.m., and 9:55 p.m. In addition Gerda Klein will be the guest on a half hour episode: Sunday May 4, 2008 at 6 PM on CN8 (Comcast Cable Systems). www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Entertainment/2008/8-04-21-Extra-OrdinaryInterview.htm. These programs will be available on the Klein Foundation website, www.kleinfoundation.org shortly after the national airing
FYI… 60 Minutes did a segment on the Israeli Air Force that included several references to the Holocaust and descendants of the Shoah. To see the story Israel's Air Force Chief: Iran Threat Real click on www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/24/60minutes/main4040294.shtml
FYI… Against Forgetting and For a New Way of Remembering the Holocaust; Secretariat of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research Opened in Berlin www.germany.info/relaunch/politics/new/pol_TaskForceRemembrance_03_2008.html
FYI… Für Das Kind – Vienna at Westbahnhof Railway Station commemorates the kindertransport operation that saved the lives of thousands of children 70 years ago. Click Video: to watch the dedication ceremony (in German).
FYI… To watch a tribute to Professor Liviu Librescu entitled Courage Under Fire: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tEHm64RnjAs
FYI… Articles have appeared recently in the German press about the Holocaust Era insurance issue. Links are provided to the original in German and to unofficial translations posted courtesy of HSF-USA:
Insurers Threatened by new Restitution Debate www.faz.net/s/RubEC1ACFE1EE274C81BCD3621EF555C83C/Doc~EF79EDB25BBF34C English translation http://hsf-usa.org/FAZ21Apr08.pdf
What Happened to the Billions www.faz.net/s/RubDDBDABB9457A437BAA85A49C26FB23A0/Doc~EE8EDB8B7734D4A English translation http://hsf-usa.org/FAZ9Apr08.pdf
FYI... Articles in the news...
Warsaw ghetto's 220 young fighters honored www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24213454/
Poland marks ghetto uprising anniversary www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24128904/
Pope to visit New York synagogue led by Holocaust survivor
Pope To Visit NYC Synagogue For Passover http://wcbstv.com/topstories/Pope.Synagogue.Visit.2.691130.html
German Jews sever ties with pope www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1206632370637
Claims Conference denies pressuring Bielski on survivor disbursement www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1208422633540&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
German professors: Nazis helped establish Israel www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203343697375&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Yad Vashem celebrates survivors in Israel www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108281.html
Exodus' hero dies www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108265.html
Survivor of Holocaust hatred: 'You have to learn to embrace the human race' www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080402/NEWS01/804020314/1002
Holocaust survivors and their heirs hope history will not repeat www.gazette.net/stories/042308/rocknew211704_32360.shtml
Survivor shares Holocaust saga
Living to Teach www.hadassah.org/pageframe.asp?section=news&page=per.html&header=per&size=50
Education projects on Holocaust launched at Czech schools
Daughter of survivors keeps memory alive www.jstandard.com/articles/4100/1/Daughter-of-survivors-keeps-memory-alive
'It's the least I could do for my friend' www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1207486207665
Remembering Liviu Librescu http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/2008/04/16/remembering-liviu-librescu/
Historian Friedlander wins Pulitzer www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107952.html
Deportation exhibit faces obstacles in Berlin www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107957.html
Poland wants Holocaust property restitution law by end of year
Compensations for Lost Property? Sure, But To All And On Equal Terms www.gazetawyborcza.pl/1,76842,5060504.html
Why Won't Those SOBs Give Me My Money? http://reformjudaismmag.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=1315
New Szyk Haggadah going for $15,000 www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20080407syks04032008.html
Israeli neo-Nazis confess www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108004.html
Israel, Poland upgrade ties www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108003.html
Unfinished Justice: A Conversation with Michael Bazyler http://reformjudaismmag.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=1316
Ghetto revolt remembered www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108089.html
Melbourne's Croatian club honors fascist www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108070.html
Bronze plaques stolen from Terezin www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108132.html
Belarusian Jews want Holocaust day www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108123.html
Nazi-hunter slams Hungary as it remembers Holocaust victims - Summary
Bread of Freedom in Times of Despair
General Assembly's 2008 Session Recap
Scientist: Ben Stein's 'Expelled' should really be 'Flunked Out'
UB Establishes Institute for Jewish Thought, Heritage and Culture
Event recounts horror of Holocaust
Kentucky legislators pass Holocaust resolution
Holocaust remembrance
France honours last surviving leader of Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Marek Edelman awarded French honour www.eurojewcong.org/ejc/news.php?id_article=1610
Now comes the hard part
Our View - Saturday
Tolerance Education Center to have groundbreaking
Holocaust remembrance seeks to rekindle
"The Holocaust In Perspective"
Award-winning author and Holocaust survivor
Teaching the Holocaust
Proposed reading cut alarms Edgerton teachers
FAU to hold talk on Holocaust
Tokayer to keynote Holocaust Remembrance
Palestinian Hate-Education Continues
Community remembers Holocaust with survivor Gerda Klein
White Rose brings message of power of one to schools
UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION OFFICERS TO ATTEND HOLOCAUST AWARENESS ...
Young writers get the word in school when authors visit
Survivor recounts horrors of Holocaust to Wheaton audience
Jonathan Kay on the bigtory of Richard Falk, the UN's new anti-Israel hit man
A Hero Can Exist… and Does in All Of Us
Academic freedom gets legislated and Expelled
The horror of Auschwitz
Holocaust education program at Rice on April 30
Large crowd rallies at Yorktown synagogue that was vandalized
The Holocaust: Student essays awarded
ADL Honors Spanish Diplomat Who Defied Orders To Save Jews ...
Senate backs Holocaust curriculum
Expelled flunks the test
The prayer for bread on Passover
The Holocaust and the iPod generation
Neo-Nazi threatened New Zealand juror www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107979.html
Three Down, One To Go www.rescuingdavinci.com/user_docs/Monuments%20Men%20Newsletter%20Apr%202008%20No%20XIV.pdf
Israel shuns U.N. official over Nazi comparison www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107978.html
Vienna opera comes to terms with its purge of Jews www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1206632373914
The almost Olympic boycott of 1936 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/2008/04/16/the-almost-olympic-boycott-of-1936/
The Local - Holocaust survivors: German rail restrictions 'undignified'
SS man to stand trial in Germany for Dutch murders www.thelocal.de/11293/20080414/
At Treblinka, Peres sends conciliatory message to Poles ww.eurojewcong.org/ejc/news.php?id_article=1605
Three Holocaust survivors to tell ’Untold Stories’ today www.eurojewcong.org/ejc/news.php?id_article=1606
IDF Soldiers salute Holocaust survivors www.eurojewcong.org/ejc/news.php?id_article=1611
The Warsaw Ghetto : Key facts and what remains
Eitan to revive Holocaust restitution efforts
Tunisian PA rep to address Shoah event
Around 10,000 to participate in the March of the Living
Needy Holocaust survivors to receive government grant of NIS 6,000
Poland wants Holocaust property restitution law by end of year
Nazi Atrocities, Committed by Ordinary People
'Suitcase' is packed with warmth, charm
Bagaduce Chorale Marks Holocaust Anniversary
Local Holocaust survivor pens memoir
Documentary Looks at Holocaust Memories
The director of the Krakow Jewish culture festival was honored by ...
Penny Project: One Girl Vows Never To Forget
Italian police arrest Nazi gang www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108165.html
Vandals deface Belarus Holocaust memorial www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108204.html
Remebering The Holocaust
The Polish-American Awareness Foundation, Inc (PAAF) Held its Inaugural Event in Chicago
Chapman to dedicate Torah, host Holocaust survivors
O'SHAUGHNESSY: Children lost in the Holocaust
Local students remember Holocaust victims by writing Kaddish cards
Tolerance message getting through
Famous Swiss filmmaker to visit UA
Extra-Ordinary Interview by 86-Year-Old TV Host of Holocaust ...
Battling evil through education
Holocaust survivor celebrates joy of life through stained glass
On Education: High School Project on Genocide Was a Portent of Real-Life Events
Rep. Ben Harbin Honored For His Holocaust Education Efforts
Holocaust display vandalized at Suffolk college
Bad manners at Warsaw Ghetto
Nazi hunter laments Hungary’s efforts on Holocaust Memorial Day
Holocaust Survivor Speaks to Students
Yom Hashoah www.jstandard.com/articles/4205/1/Yom-HaShoah
Let kids visit Nazi death camps
Hero or Traitor? Oskar Schindler Still Divides
Adolf Who?
Vandals smash Holocaust items displayed in NY
Historian, author to speak about Holocaust denial
Czech sales of Nazi memorabilia growing www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108260.html
Holocaust survivor Earl Greif honored
How six million paper clips made the Holocaust real for students
Rancho Mirage man to be honored next week http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080425/NEWS01/80425046/1263/update
Woman who grew up in Nazi Germany to share story at UMD www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=65231§ion=homepage&freebie_check&CFID=29498161&CFTOKEN=10633874&jsessionid=8830ec7ced1a141ea505
The Nazi Plot That’s Haunting Tom Cruise and United Artists www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/movies/23cruis.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Riding to remember www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1208870485851
The Templar legacy www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1208870500760
FYI… Marek Edelman received the award of Commander of the Legion of Honor from French Minister of Foreign Affairs Bernard Kouchner at the French Embassy in Warsaw on April 15. The Minister then attended the ceremony at the Warsaw Ghetto Monument. The Shoah Memorial and the CRIF (Jewish Community of France) were also part of the French delegation. Photos and speech: www.ambafrance-pl.org/article.php3?id_article=2679
FYI… to view the trailer for the film The Miracle of Israel 1945-1948 which focuses on Holocaust survivors: http://12tribefilms.org/miracleofisrael2/index.php?movieName=ff6_remnant
FYI… The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey offers a Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program. The summer school 2008 schedule includes Literature of the Holocaust WebCT - Distance Learning Course (May 19 - July 16), The Armenian Genocide WebCT - Distance Learning Course (June 19 – August 14) and Resistance During the Holocaust July 28, 29, 30, 31; Aug. 4, 5, 6, 7 (9:00 am - 4:00 pm). For more information: Kathleen.Curran@stockton.edu.
FYI… The Memorial to the Six Million, located in Greenwood Cemetery in Atlanta, Fulton County, was listed in the National Register on April 21, 2008. The Memorial is an open-air memorial to the murdered Jews of the Holocaust. In 1964 in Atlanta, a group of 100 survivors of the Holocaust organized under the name Eternal-Life-Hemesch for the purpose of building a memorial to the murdered Jews. The group wanted the memorial to serve as a place to say Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. Funds for the memorial were raised entirely within the survivor community in Atlanta. For more information: helen_talley-mcrae@dnr.state.ga.us
FYI… Songs of Life festival of thanksgiving celebrates rescue of World War II Jews
Songs of Life, an international choral festival commemorating the rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews, will be held Nov. 21 – Dec. 1, 2008 in Bulgaria and Israel. The festival marks the 65th anniversary of the heroic rescue of 50,000 Bulgarian Jews during World War II and serves as a celebration of the preservation of life. For more information: www.songsoflife.org.
FYI… I have been looking for a friend of mine, named Walter Sobotka, born about 1930 in Vienna. He and his mother (Martha) were interned at Hotel Terminus du Port in Marseille with me 1941 and 1942 until the deportations started in August 1942. His father was interned at Camp des Milles near Marseille at the same time. His parents are listed in the deportation lists from Drancy to Auschwitz, but he is not listed with them. If anyone knows the whereabouts or fate of the Sobotka family, please contact me: Gunther Katz gunther@dslextreme.com
FYI… To hear an interview in Yiddish with Max Kohn, a Parisian psychoanalyst and the author of the book Freud and Yiddish and the Analysis of the Yiddish Joke www.radio.sbs.com.au/language.php?news=highlights&language=Yiddish

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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.

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

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