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Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
July 2008
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Dear Members and Friends,

GSI continues to grow and welcome new organizations and individual members. We appreciate all the help you, our members, give us by sharing our newsletter and telling your friends and colleagues about us. Thank you for your continuing support.

Please check the Restitution and Announcements sections below for information from the German and Austrian governments.

Two members of the GSI Coordinating Council, Barbara Wind from MetroWest in New Jersey and Esther Finder, from The Generation After in Washington, DC, made a presentation at the Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO) conference in June. The presentation explored ways to engage children and grandchildren of survivors with regional Holocaust museums and centers. We hope to build stronger bridges between the survivor community and these Holocaust institutions.

A new group of grandchildren of survivors is forming in Los Angeles. If you would like to attend the initial, exploratory meeting contact Suzanne: baran@yahoo-inc.com.

Remember to submit your program / conference / event information to us in a timely fashion using the format we provide (see below). We are happy to publish program information pro bono and ask that you make it as easy as possible for us to do this. Remember we are an all-volunteer organization and we simply cannot sift through long press releases.

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RESTITUTION Based on a project created by Bet Tzedek Legal Services in Los Angeles, lawyers around the country are providing free legal assistance to survivors. The purpose is to help survivors complete and submit the application for the program described below re: the Ghetto Fund. Bet Tzedek has helped over 600 survivors in Los Angeles without having a single person denied this payment.

For more information and to obtain free assistance in applying for the one-time payment from Germany, contact your local Jewish Family Service or Holocaust Services agency, the Association of Jewish Family and Children's Agencies at (800) 634- 7346 or e-mail www.ajfca.org/dir.html.

One Time Payment for Work in a Ghetto
German Government's Humanitarian Fund in Acknowledgment of "Ghetto Work without Force" (Ghetto Fund)

Jewish victims of Nazi persecution may be eligible, under certain conditions, to obtain a payment of 2,000- € from the German government's new fund for work carried out "without force" in a ghetto.**

The Bundesamt für zentrale Dienste und offene Vermögensfragen (BADV) is mailing information and application forms related to this fund to survivors who were rejected under the ZRBG (also known as the "Ghetto Pension" social security payments). Note that:

Survivors who have already applied for the Ghetto Fund payment (beginning in October 2007) do not need to submit a new application form or to re-apply, even if they have now received another application form in the mail.
Survivors who do not receive the form in the mail may still apply.

The main eligibility guidelines are outlined below:

Status as a persecuted individual as outlined in the German Federal Indemnification Act
Forced residence in a ghetto under Nazi influence
Performance of work during this time without coercion in a relationship similar to employment**
Applicant does not already receive a Social Security pension for that same work (especially in accordance to the ZRBG, known as "Ghetto Pension").

** Note: an example of “without force” and “a relationship similar to employment” might be: Sara was just a child when her family was moved into the Lodz Ghetto. She cleaned houses, sewed clothes and shoveled coal. No SS used force to make her work. She received extra food each day for her work. She is eligible.

The application is available on the German government site at www.badv.bund.de To apply, applicants should contact the German government by writing to: Bundesamt für zentrale Dienste und offene Vermögensfragen (BADV) 53221 Bonn
Information Hotline (Germany): +49 (0) 22899 7030 1324

Property restitution:
To see the report written by the U.S. State Department’s Office of Holocaust Issues for information about property restitution in Central and Eastern Europe: www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/or/93062.htm. There are now over two dozen co-sponsors of HC Res 371, the resolution on property restitution. For a link to the resolution itself: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc110/hc371_ih.xml

Update on HR 1746 re: Holocaust Era Insurance
A substitute version of HR1746 that removes basic elements of the bill important to survivors and heirs was passed out of the House Financial Services Committee on June 25th with the backing of Chairman Barney Frank. The HSF-USA website http://hsf-usa.org/ has the latest updates on the issue. See German Ambassador Scharioth's letter at this link: http://hsf-usa.org/0620LetterSchariothFrank.pdf and Holocaust survivors' letter to Barney Frank here: http://hsf-usa.org/Holocaust%20Survivors%20Foundation%20USA%20June%2025%202008%20Letter%20to%20Chairman%20Frank%20and%20Members.pdf

Feel free to contact your local Congresspersons and express your feelings to them about the issue of Holocaust Era insurance. Congressman Frank indicated he “deemed the administrative burden for the insurance industry to be too high”. This position helps the insurance companies and hinders Holocaust survivors.

A link to the video of the hearings is posted on the HSF website. Watch for yourself.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
From Austria: "Pflegegeld" (nursing allowance):
Austrian survivors, including those who receive a pension due to victims’ compensation from the Pensionsversicherungsanstalt in Vienna, Austria, are eligible for this allowance. Residency in Austria is not required for these recipients; it is, however, required for all other recipients of an Austrian pension.

An application for the nursing allowance can be made when the following conditions exist:

In case of physical, mental or psychiatric impairment or impairment of the senses
If constant care and assistance is needed for a determined amount of time
When the above mentioned conditions last at least six months The amount of nursing allowance depends on how much care (hours per month) is required. There are seven grades depending on the severity of the condition. Application can be made by the individual, a family member, member of the household or legal guardian. For each increase in the nursing allowance, a new application must be made.

The amount of nursing allowance depends on how much care (hours per month) is required. There are seven grades depending on the severity of the condition. Application can be made by the individual, a family member, member of the household or legal guardian. For each increase in the nursing allowance, a new application must be made.

More detailed information as well as application forms, in German, can be found at: www.pensionsversicherungsanstalt.at. Click on "Leistungen", then "Pflegegeld" and "Formulare". Please contact either the Embassy or one of the Austrian Consulates if you need assistance with applications or forms.

From the International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen, Germany
…15 historians from six countries inspected the ITS documentation, which has been opened for research since November last year, during a ten day workshop. This has so far been the largest group of scholars that has analysed the outright inventory of documents archived at the ITS. It was the group’s goal to determine which sections of the archives are of significant value for historical research. Participants also pursued their own individual research projects parallel to the group work that went on during this time…

The workshop also made clear that the documents urgently need to be subjected to an improved cataloguing and indexing system. “We have to make the archives accessible to researchers with the help of finding aids and catalogues”, says Irmtrud Wojak, head of the historical research department at ITS. “The researchers need more of an overview on the structure and the origin of the documents for their research work at ITS.” The International Tracing Service has until now concentrated on resolving individual fates. The Central Name Index has so far been the key to the documents themselves. Historians do, however, ask for events, places, groups and the way they might be connected. The scholars did at the same time recommend a renewed focus on the structure of the archive and on conserving the original documents.

For more information about the ITS: www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html

The DNA Shoah Project recently announced partnerships with both the Shoah Victims’ Names Recovery Project at Yad Vashem (Jerusalem) and the American Red Cross’ Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Service. These collaborations, involving the reciprocal promotion of each other’s services, will expand the efforts of all three organizations exponentially and internationally. The DNA Shoah Project is excited to be working with such esteemed organizations in the field of Holocaust survivor services and looks forward to the enhanced opportunities created by these partnerships. For more information: www.dnashoah.org: email: info@dnashoah.org or toll-free: (866) 897-1150.

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

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.

The Sixth National Conference of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
They Spoke Out: American Voices for Rescue from the Holocaust: September 21, 2008 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Fordham University School of Law - 140 West 62 St., New York City
For information and reservations, see www.wymaninstitute.org or call 202 434-8994

Kindertransport Association Conference
Remember the past Reflect on the present React for a better future: October 24 – 26, 2008
Renaissance Hotel Airport, Orlando, FL
For information and reservations 516-938-6084, email margkurt@aol.com fax 516-827-3329

World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust Annual Conference: November 7 – 10, 2008; Alexandria Hilton, Alexandria, Virginia (minutes from downtown Washington, DC).
For information, e-mail Holocaustchild@comcast.net or, to download our new Registration Packet, go to our website: www.wfjcsh.org/. You can also call 301-933-4716 and leave a message. Your call will be returned promptly. In the past Child Survivors have had the opportunity to send in their creative work for a Commemorative Booklet. A booklet will be compiled and edited for this upcoming conference. Send your contributions in the form of a story, an essay, a poem, a drawing, a photo of a painting or sculpture, or any other creation relating to your experiences, to your memories, or to an aspect of the conference. RGabrieleS@aol.com

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.

Embracing the Past to Build the Future: A Conference for Children of Holocaust Survivors and Their Families: November 16, 2008 1:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Jewish Community Center of Paramus
E.304 Midland Ave, Paramus NJ
Keynote speaker: Paula David, Coordinator, Holocaust Resource Project, Baycrest Geriatric Centre, Toronto, Canada. For further information: Jewish Family Service of Bergen County at 201-837-9090 or Jewish Family & Children’s Service of North Jersey at 973-595-0111

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

The 39th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches 1939: America on the Eve of Catastrophe: March 7-9, 2009 St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA
For more information: drlittell@COMCAST.NET

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS

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.

Annual Summer Teacher Institute Series II
Best Practices in Holocaust Education
A Workshop for All Educators: August 4 - 6, 2008 Baltimore, Maryland
Download Flyer and Application

Teacher Workshop
Why it is important to teach about genocide bias prejudice and bigotry: September 25, 2008 8:30 am - 2:30 pm; Daniel Pearl Education Center at Temple B'nai Sholom; Fern and Old Stage Road, East Brunswick, NJ
Free 5 professional development hours. www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/092508ws.pdf

UPCOMING EVENTS

Now – July 4, 2008 – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY: Exhibit: Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, Jews 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. Thise exhibit will help visitors to understand the dilemmas that Jews faced under impossible circumstances. 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, the government of the Dominican Republic offered to resettle Jews at Sosúa, an abandoned banana plantation. This exhibit describes how hundreds of Jews came to Sosúa, the role of the US and Dominican governments and the Joint Distribution Committee, and the town they created. For more: www.mjhnyc.org

Now - July 30, 2008— Long Island GLBT Community Center, Bay Shore, NY: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945. For more information: www.ushmm.org.

Now – August 10, 2008 – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: Exhibit: The Nazi Olympics, Berlin 1936. For more: www.ushmm.org.

Now – August 15, 2008—Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL: Exhibition Art From the Heart II: collaboration between the Museum and PARC (Pinellas Association for Retarded Children). During the Holocaust, people with developmental disabilities were one of many groups targeted by the Nazis. Since part of the Museum’s mission is to teach all people to recognize the inherent worth and dignity of human life, the Museum is honored to celebrate the work of PARC consumers.
For more: www.flholocaustmuseum.org

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

Now – August 2008, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel: Exhibition: Auktion 392 Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Dusseldorf: the story of the forced sale of the gallery collection and personal art collection of Dr. Max Stern in 1937 as part of a meticulously planned and executed program in Germany.
For more: suzanne@benuri.org.uk

Now – August 2008, World Museum, Liverpool, UK: Exhibition: Auktion 392 Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Dusseldorf: the story of the forced sale of the gallery collection and personal art collection of Dr. Max Stern in 1937 as part of a meticulously planned and executed program in Germany.
For more: suzanne@benuri.org.uk

Now – August 31, 2008— Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, Poland: Exhibit: Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps, a compelling collection of rare Holocaust-era letters and photographs that are part of the collections of The New York Public Library, opens at the annual Jewish Festival in Krakow. For more information contact Kate Craddy at the Galicia Jewish Museum: 0048 12 421 68 42, kate@galiciajewishmuseum.org or the exhibition curator, Jill Vexler: 212-505-6427, jill@jillvexler.com

Now – September 28, 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

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

Now – January 4, 2009, German Historical Museum, Berlin, Germany: The Deutsches Historisches [German Historical] Museum, Berlin, in cooperation with The Arthur Szyk Society, will stage Arthur Szyk – Drawing Against National Socialism and Terror, a major solo exhibition of the artwork of the Polish Jewish artist who escaped Nazism and immigrated to the U.S. in 1940 to build American support for the war. This is the first-ever showing of Szyk’s work in Germany. Szyk’s themes – against tyranny and oppression, for social justice and freedom – still resonate today, challenging a new generation to examine its response to global injustice.
For more: info@szyk.org.

Thursdays and Sundays in July 2008, 7:00 p.m. (19:00) – Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, Poland: Klezmer concert performed by the acclaimed group, Nazzar. Tickets: 40 PLN. For more information: www.galiciajewishmuseum.org/

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

July 1, 2008, 5:00 p.m. (17:00) – Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, Poland: Exhibit opening: Where the past meets the future, by Fay Grajower, inspired by old photos and stories of pre-WWII life in Krakow and Galicia as well as the artist’s heritage as a descendent of three generations of Dayanim (rabbinical judges) in Krakow.
For more: www.galiciajewishmuseum.org/

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

July 5, 2008 to July 27, 2008 – Arkansas State University, 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 5, 2008, 2:00 p.m. (14:00) – Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, Poland: Painted Memories: Growing up Jewish in Poland before the Holocaust. Illustrated lecture and book signing with Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.
For more information: www.galiciajewishmuseum.org/

July 8, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: First Person program with featured speaker Estelle Laughlin. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson

July 9, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: First Person program with featured speaker Regina and Sam Spiegel. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson

July 16, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: First Person program with featured speaker David Bayer. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson

July 16, 2008, 6:00 p.m. – Jerusalem Film Festival, Jerusalem, Israel: Screening of the newly restored Yiddish Film from 1937: The Jester (Der Purimspiler).
For more information: www.jff.org.il/?CategoryID=555&ArticleID=363

July 16 & 17, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19 St, New York, NY: Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company (CDDC) and Bente Kahan in Concert in Echoes: The Legacy Project - Two Artists, Two Continents but with One Legacy, an evening of dance, music and theater. Performing with CDDC, Kahan becomes the “weaver of tales” alternating between her own songbook of Ladino, Yiddish, English, German music and work from Dorfman’s own Jewish Legacy Project. The last section of the evening integrates elements of Dorfman’s Cat’s Cradle, Kahan’s one-woman theater piece, Voices of Theresienstadt, new choreography, live music and text.
For information and tickets, see www.dtw.org or call 212 924-0077

July 18, 2008, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. – US Holocaust: Memorial Museum, Washington, DC Summer research workshop discussion: Vichy and the Holocaust in France since 1990: Memory, Representation and Revision.
For more information: www.ushmm.org

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

July 24, 2008, 7:00 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

July 25, 2008, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: Summer research workshop discussion: Studying Antisemitism in the 21st Century: Manifestations, Implications and Consequences.
For more information: www.ushmm.org.

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

August 1, 2008, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: Summer research workshop discussion: From Prosecution to Historiography: American, Jewish, and German Perspectives on the U.S. War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg, 1946–49.
For more information: www.ushmm.org

August 2 - 31, 2008 – Garland County Public Library, Hot Springs, 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.

August 6, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: First Person program with featured speaker Catherine Liner. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson

August 9 – September 30, 2008 – University of Vermont Living/Learning Gallery with Outright Vermont, Burlington, VT: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945. For more information: www.ushmm.org.

August 13, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: First Person program with featured speaker Izak Danon. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson

August 14, 2008, 7:00 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

August 14, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Herzstein Theater, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX: Lecture: Hitler's Al Qaeda? Making Sense of Participation in the Holocaust by author Dr. Mark Roseman, chair of the Jewish Studies Program and Professor of History at Indiana University in Bloomington. Admission is free, but seating is limited and advance registration is required. Visit www.hmh.org/register.asp to register online.
For more information, call 713-942-8000, ext. 100 or e-mail events@hmh.org.

August 207, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

August 27, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

September 10 – October 22, 2008 – Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor, Youngstown, OH: 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
For more information: www.ushmm.org.

September 11, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – University Theater, Morris Cultural Arts Center, Houston Baptist University, 7502 Fondren Road, Houston, TX: Remarks by the Honorable Madeleine Albright: The former U.S. Secretary of State speaks about her life and career. She will discuss America's role in the world, the effect of strife on the global economy, current regional conflicts, the future of democracy, and the challenge of ensuring security and building peace. Free.
For information: 713-942-8000, ext. 104 or events@hmh.org

September 14, 2008, 1:30 p.m. – Maurice Levin Theater, Leon and Toby Cooperman JCC, Ross Family Campus, West Orange, NJ: Cafe Europa: The Holocaust Survivors Friendship Society Second Annual Community Celebration, featuring the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater Troupe, performing classic songs and sketches, with English subtitles. Dessert reception at 1:30, performance at 2:30 p.m. For information/reservations, please contact Sylvia Heller at 973-765-9050, ext.262 or sheller@jfsmetronj.org.

September 22, 2008, 6:30 reception, 7:30 p.m. concert – Colonnade Hotel, Boston, MA: Terezin Chamber Music Foundation presents Celebrate the Legacy: An Evening of Music and Painting.
For information and ticket purchase, please contact TCMF at: Tel: 857-222-8263 info@terezinmusic.org, www.terezinmusic.org

September 22, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – University Center 107, Drew University, Madison, NJ: Program: The Eight Stages of Genocide with Dr. Gregory Stanton, Director, Genocide Watch.
For more information: 973/408-3600 or ctrholst@drew.edu.

FYI: For your information

FYI… Federal Food Donation Act of 2008
Rock and Wrap It Up! is an anti-poverty think tank dedicated to Founder and CEO Syd Mandelbaum's parents who are Holocaust survivors. Rock and Wrap It Up! researched, created and wrote the Federal Food Donation Act of 2008. It was unanimously passed in the House and Senate and was signed into Law by President Bush on June 19th, 2008. "Millions more will eat", said Senate Sponsor Chuck Schumer, (NY). Rock and Wrap It Up! Board Member and Missouri Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson sponsored the Act in the House. The Act will encourage federal buildings to donate their food that is prepared but not served or sold to agencies nation-wide, who fight poverty.

Rock and Wrap It Up! is a national, independent anti-poverty think tank based in New York. It is non-profit and nonpartisan, an organization devoted to developing and implementing innovative greening solutions to the pressing issues of hunger and poverty in America. Agencies who fight poverty receive food and other assets from Rock and Wrap It Up! tactics and strategies. This frees up budgets to spend more on tutors, job placement counselors, etc, treating the root causes of poverty.

Syd Mandelbaum, MA, MBA CEO and Founder Rock and Wrap It Up! 1-877-691-FOOD www.rockandwrapitup.org
FYI… The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust invites video makers of all ages and experience levels to submit entries in its 1st annual video competition. This year’s theme: The Holocaust Through a 21st Century Lens. Entrants should feel free to explore any and all aspects of the Holocaust, but should judiciously focus their subject. Deadline: September 1, 2008. Visit www.lamoth.org for an entry form, rules, and more information. Check out our YouTube video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyGdaH_mC48
FYI… YESH, Children and Orphans Holocaust survivors in Israel, asks for your help: On behalf of the Holocaust Children, I appeal to you, personally, for support in our claim for restitution for the deprivation of our childhood in the Holocaust. Please sign the petition to the German government and the Claims Conference: http://next-in.com/app/petition/default.html

Yochanan Ron, The "Deprived Childhood" Committee of YESH Children and Orphans Holocaust survivors in Israel
FYI… I'm conducting research for a new documentary film about Jewish refugees in India during WW II and need to contact three people that I know immigrated to the USA:

Sigmund (Sigi) Tiechler born 1930 (plus-minus 2 years) in Austria? Left Austria with his parents 1939 -40(?) and reached India June 1941. Came to USA 1946-7 from Bombay and lived in New York.

Robert (Uzi) Urbach born January 1946 in Bombay India, to David & Gizela Urbach; came to USA from Israel in the 70's

His brother, Morgan Urbach born October 1947 in Bombay India, came to USA from Israel in the 70's

Robert & Morgan Urbach are second generation of Holocaust survivors, Gizela escaped from a concentration camp and managed to reach and meet her husband in India January 1945.

Thanks, Nahum Laufer, Researcher, Erez Laufer Films, laufern@netvision.net.il
FYI… NEXTGENERATIONS, based in Florida, is organizing a Holocaust Study Tour to Poland and the Czech Republic for some time in May / June of 2009. A pre-tour course on the Holocaust will be offered. On-site lectures will be offered and participants will get to meet some of the surviving Jewish of Poland and speak with Righteous Gentiles. This is to be a six (6)-night tour and will visit Warsaw, Lublin, Krakow, and Prague. Daughter of survivors, Claire Goldstein-Simmons of Washington, DC, will escort the group. For more details: ngnewz@gmail.com
FYI... Articles in the news...
New German funds announced for survivors www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108986.html
Audit: Israel's Holocaust survivors cheated www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109159.html
Holocaust survivors from former USSR denied reparations www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/993942.html
Turn justice wheels faster for Holocaust survivors [scroll down to 2nd article] www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2008/06/11/wednesdaywebletters_0611.html
Claims Conference ordered to pay www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108858.html
Huge Profits Casts Shadow over Holocaust Survivors Organization http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/166312
Germany mulls probe of Jewish group overseeing Holocaust restitution www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/993266.html
The Holocaust survivors facing war-crimes trials www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m14&SecId=14&AId=60542&ATypeId=1
Final approval given to Generali Holocaust claims
With 2d Circuit Decision, Holocaust Case Moves Closer to Resolution http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/06/11/with-2d-circuit-decision-holocaust-case-moves-closer-to-resolution/
Lauder to Poland: Enact compensation law www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109118.html
Gentile who saved chief ra bbi identified
Jews march at Auschwitz to recall Holocaust www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24409822/
Scholars make finds in Nazi archive
Nazi camp guard loses U.S. citizenship www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109017.html
Nazi officer Bach arrested in India www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109266.html
Sir Nicholas Winton Defied Authority for His Cause http://abcnews.go.com/WN/PersonOfWeek/story?id=5263516&page=1
German synagogue vandalized www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109102.html
Germany seeks Demjanjuk's extradition www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109125.html
German study confirms path of extremism www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109110.html
French panel rejects Holocaust education plan www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109140.html
Yad Vashem is Asked to Recognize Hillel Kook www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126560
Yad Vashem rejects rescue activist exhibit www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1213794285084
Amid skepticism, Israeli Arab teaches Palestinians about the Holocaust www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/996592.html
Monument honors slain Ukraine rabbi www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109225.html
Anne Frank diary translated to Afrikaans www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109229.html
Exploiting Anne Frank www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/228xsaax.asp
Holocaust center's name to be changed
Shanghai to preserve Holocaust refugee stories www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108966.html
Teaching Shoah and beyond Towson U. gets prelim OK for tolerance center www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=8927&TM=74265.95
Wiesel and Wieseltier on God and war JPDS hosts a 'conversation' www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=8946&TM=74265.95
Pastor Hagee was – and wasn’t – wrong www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/06/01/hagee_was_and_wasnt_wrong_on_holocaust/
Hagee apologizes for Holocaust comments www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109046.html
Turkish scholar fired for Nazi comparison www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109237.html
Activist's New Mexico home targeted www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109122.html
FYI… The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is delighted to announce the publication of a new Holocaust curriculum for Bar and Bat Mitzvah students, published in collaboration with Yad LaYeled – The Ghetto Fighters’ Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum in Israel. Coming of Age During the Holocaust, Coming of Age Now is a multi-disciplinary Holocaust curriculum through which students are guided via reading, writing, and viewing activities to reflect on the challenges young people faced before, during, and after the Holocaust. Contact Nili Isenberg at 646.437.4308 or nisenberg@mjhnyc.org for costs and to order.
FYI… The French website Sarah’s Attic / Le Grenier de Sarah, was developed following President Sarkozy’s suggestion and designed by the Shoah Memorial: www.grenierdesarah.org. The French Ministry of Education recommends this for primary schools. Note: not all of the website is in English.
FYI… Attention all Second-Generation Children of Holocaust Survivors: Are you an adult child of a MOTHER that has survived the Holocaust?

Would you be willing to participate in a completely anonymous survey that will shed light on some of the ways in which Jewish offspring of mothers that survived the Holocaust cope with stress?

By doing so you could help to make a valuable contribution to the families of future generations that grow up in the aftermath of trauma.

The on-line survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.

A $5.00 contribution to the US Holocaust Museum will be donated on behalf of each completed survey.

For further information and to complete the survey: www.surveymonkey.com/holocauststudy. You can also access the survey by going to the website www.afreshstartonline.com and click on the link to the survey.

Audrey Freshman, LCSW; CASAC
The Silver School; NYU School of Social Work
New York, New York 10003
516 678-2549; Audrey314@gmail.com
FYI… A small private school for special needs kids in Trenton, Ontario, in Canada learned about the Holocaust and viewed the film Paper Clips. Inspired, the students decided to begin a memorial of their own by trying to amass six million pebbles. The "Pebble Ride" was organized to support the kids' project. Two hundred people on 130 motorcycles rode from Toronto to Trenton, armed with 35,000 pebbles to add to the 200,000 pebbles already collected. View videos at: http://www.youtube.com/PebbleRide and http://www.youtube.com/levittup. To send pebbles to help the kids reach their goal, see the address at the end of each video.
FYI… There are over a dozen film screenings at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. To find out about titles and times: http://sfjff.org/festival_2008/topics/?PHPSESSID=696a550bec3550f45e26fce6c2591b3a

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

Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
July 2008
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