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Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
September 2008
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Dear Members and Friends,
We wish you and your families the best for the New Year and hope it will be a year of peace, health and prosperity. If you are inclined to make donations this time of year, please consider making your contribution to a Holocaust-related organization / institution. Contact your local Jewish Social Service agency (to help needy survivors) or a Holocaust memorial institution to see how much good your contributions can do. Thank you. (Note: GSI is an all-volunteer organization, open to all, which does not solicit funds from members, the Claims Conference or from any other sources.)
There is important correspondence regarding the current situation in Lithuania posted on our website. For more information go to the GSI home page and click on the highlighted words. On August 19, the students and faculty of the Vilnius Program in Yiddish Language and Literature at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute issued an open letter. There are several articles about the disturbing trend in Eastern Europe of blaming Jewish partisans for war crimes during World War II in the FYI…articles in the news section below.
There is a troubling misinformation campaign being waged alleging potential negative impacts if HR 1746, the Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act, passes. The Jewish community and members of Congress are being told by the Claims Conference and affiliated groups that Germany will fail to fund, or would even reduce, programs for needy survivors if this legislation is enacted. However, nothing in the public record substantiates this argument, and the German Embassy informed Congressional offices that passage of HR 1746 will not threaten German funds for survivors. So, please let people in your community know that despite charges to the contrary, passage of HR 1746 would not affect the German Government’s occasional funding increases for various programs. Germany has acknowledged its responsibility to Holocaust survivors. There is no reason to protect German, Italian, and Swiss insurers who profited from the Holocaust. For more information about HR 1746, including arguments on both sides of the issue, please see the FYI…articles in the news section below.
We hope members of the survivor community will attend the upcoming World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust (WFJCSH) annual conference from November 7-10 in Alexandria, Virginia. This is more than just a conference for child survivors: children and grandchildren of survivors are welcome and there is special programming designed for the different generations. GSI has participated in these programs in the past and will participate again this year. We look forward to this opportunity to meet folks in person. See you there… For more information on the conference, see below or go to: www.wfjcsh.org.
Kristallnacht is approaching. Please remember to send in your commemoration information for inclusion in the next newsletter. For directions on event submission, see the information box below.
Generations of the Shoah International (GSI)
Membership in our interactive leadership listserv is open to leaders / representatives of landsmanschaft groups. If your local survivor, second generation or third generation group has not yet delegated a representative to join the GSI interactive online discussion / listserv group, please join us now. We already have dozens of members throughout the US and from other countries. This global interactive listserv is the fastest way to reach the survivor community should issues / concerns arise: gsi@genshoah.org.
For event submissions: www.genshoah.org/contact_gsi.html. Please fill out the information requested in the text areas and submit it to us at gsi@genshoah.org. Kindly do not to wait until the last minute. Send us your information later than the 23rd of the month month if you wish for it to appear in the upcoming month’s issue.
Visit our GSI website at www.genshoah.org for updated information on new books, films, helpful links to Holocaust-related organizations and institutions, etc. Survivors, their children and grandchildren are welcome to post contact information for their local groups on our website.
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From Las Vegas: The Pro-Bono Law Project through Clark County Legal Services in participation with Jewish Family Service Agency will be assisting Holocaust Survivors with the most recent German Government Ghetto Fund application in the fall. For more information contact JFSA at 702-732-0304.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Testimonies to the Magnitude of Slave Labour: The International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen has completed the digitalisation of its documents on forced labour in the “Third Reich”. The Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw have received a copy. “The documents attest to the monstrous dimension of slave labour during the national socialist reign,” said Udo Jost, head of the archive. “The labour of so-called foreign workers was exploited in nearly every economic sector and region.”
ITS has scanned and indexed over 6.7 million documents (around 13 million images) concerning forced labour during the Nazi regime and immediate post-war period. The data volume amounts to a total of 1.87 terabytes. “The digitalisation serves the protection and conservation of the original documents,” said Jost. “At the same time, it allows for better access to the documents, whether on location at ITS or at one of our partner organisations in Israel, the US, or Poland.”
For more information: www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html
From the Slovak Republic
On the evening of September 9th, when Slovakia will take pause and remember the victims of the Holocaust, the premier of Slovakia, Robert Fico, will officially declare that the Museum of Jewish Culture in Bratislava shall assume administrative responsibility for the five original buildings of the Sered labor and concentration camp. We consider this event to be one of exceptional importance. Upon reconstruction a Museum of the Holocaust shall be created there, devoted to all collection centers in Slovakia and providing education regarding the Holocaust. For more information call 421 2 59 34 91 12
From Yad Vashem: New feature on the website: This Month in Holocaust History. Consisting of a monthly exhibition of 16 historical pictures from the recently launched Online Photo Archive, the photographs reflect the wealth of material available in the Archive. The pictures offer an historical snapshot of events and daily life from the current month during the years of the Holocaust. Expanded captions and their historical context accompany many of the photographs. www1.yadvashem.org/photoContent/thisMonthI.html
Echoes and Reflections - A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust: Eleven separate workshops sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League and the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education are being offered throughout the state of New Jersey from September 24, 2008 through March 16, 2009. For more information, a complete schedule and locations, see www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/092408_031609sem.pdf
Also from New Jersey: Dina Cohen, Chair of Generations of the Shoah – New Jersey (GSI-NJ) and member of the Coordinating Council of Generations of the Shoah International (GSI), has been appointed to the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education. Also appointed was Gina Lanceter, Dina's mother and Co-Chair of the Holocaust Council of MetroWest New Jersey. Congratulations!
From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Beginning September 1, 2008, passes will not be required to enter the Permanent Exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum during the fall and winter months. We are making this change to better align Museum operations with Washington, D.C.’s seasonal visitation patterns. Year-round, no passes are required to enter the Museum or to visit our special exhibitions, and passes will now only be required for the Permanent Exhibition March through August.
- 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
- Cumberland County Coalition for Genocide & Holocaust Education
Second Annual Conference - Changing the Bystander to an Upstander:
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives - October 23, 2008 3:30 - 8:00 p.m.
George P Luciano Center for Public Service & Leadership
Cumberland County College, Vineland, NJ
- Free, for all professional educators. Light dinner, materials and 4 professional development hours provided. More information and registration form at: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/102308upstander.pdf
- 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.
- Conference in Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht
- Scattered to the Winds: Desperate Attempts by Jews to Escape the Nazis>
- November 13, 2008, 9:00 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Baldwin Gym, Drew University, Madison, NJ - Registration: $18 per person includes lunch and refreshments. For more: ctrholst@drew.edu
- 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: Dr. Paula David, Ph.D., University of Toronto. Dr. David developed the Holocaust Resource Program at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and has presented and published articles on her work with Holocaust survivors and their families. For more 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
- The Holocaust: Pain and Remembrance
- Sept. 28, 2008 10 am - 4 pm
- Guthrie Theater, 818 South Second Street, Minneapolis, MN Registration: www.chgs.umn.edu/news/holocaust.html. For more information: Call 612-624-0256 or email chgs@umn.edu
- Teacher Workshop
Why it is important to teach about genocide bias prejudice and bigotry - October 16, 2008* 8:30 am - 2:30 pm *new date
- 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
- Children and Genocide: Rwanda and the Holocaust
- October 18, 2008 9:00-4:30
Concordia University, 1282 Concordia Avenue, St. Paul, MN - Registration: www.chgs.umn.edu/news/children.html. For more information: Call 612-624-0256 or email chgs@umn.edu
- Teacher Workshop
- Resistance: How Everyday Italians Saved Jews During the Holocaust
- October 24, 2008 9:00 am - 2:30 pm
Kean University
Estabrook Wing - Room K127
1000 Morris Ave, Union, NJ - Free. 5 professional development hours, lunch provided.
www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/102408resistance.pdf
- Genocide and Gender-Based Violence: Darfur, the Holocaust, and American Indians
- November 15, 2008 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Gustavus Adolphus College, 800 West College Avenue, St. Peter, MN - Registration: http://chgs.umn.edu/news/darfur.html. For more information: Call 612-624-0256 or email chgs@umn.edu
UPCOMING EVENTS
- 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 - 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.
- 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 .
- September 1, 2008, 11:30 a.m. – St. Ladislaus R.C. Church, 18 Richardson Pl, Hempstead, NY
- The Downstate N.Y. Division of the Polish American Congress will commemorate the anniversary of tragic day that World War II began with a special memorial mass. Polish war veterans and survivors will attend and take part in a reception that follows. The public is invited. For more information: pacdny@verizon.net
- September 2 – October 2, 2008 – Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Voice to Vision, an exhibition that captures the extraordinary experiences of genocide survivors from different parts of the world. For more information: chgs@umn.edu
- September 6, 2008, 11:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. – Borders Books, East Shore-Paxton Shopping Center, Harrisburg, PA
- Book signing: Auschwitz survivor Kurt Moses will be presenting his book Home at Last. For more information: 717-541-9727
- September 7- November 2, 2008 – Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Ave at 25th St, New York NY
- Invictus Theater Company World Premiere of Dan Gordon's real life drama Irena's Vow, starring Tovah Feldshuh as Irena Gut Opdyke, Polish Catholic rescuer. Presented by The Directors Company in association with Power Productions New York, Inc. & the Polish Cultural Institute in New York. For tickets call 212-352-3101 or go to www.TheaterMania.com, www.directorscompany.org
- 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
- September 10 - November 4, 2008, – Park City Library, Park City, UT
- 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.
- September 11, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – The Living Room at Jewish Family Service of Bergen County, 1485 Teaneck Rd, Teaneck, NJ
- Are you there God? Belief and Practice in Survivor Families: Second-generation 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 thelivingroom@jfsbergen.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, in Makht A Tsimes, Yiddish comedy sketches and theater songs, 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 15, 2008, 12:00 noon – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest: Lunch and Learn with Holocaust survivor Dr. Carl Dubovy. Please bring a dairy lunch, beverage and cookies provided. To RSVP and for information: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- September 16, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – 4239-41 W. Main St., Skokie, IL
- Kenneth Rapoport, member of the Association of Descendants of the Shoah IL, will speak about his trip to Poland to research his roots. Slide presentation will accompany his lecture. Refreshments. RSVP before September 15, 2008 please. tzippy_chs@sbcglobal.net
- September 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.> – ADL Conference Center, 605 Third Ave, New York NY
- The Hidden Child Foundation/ADL Book Party with Hannah Sara Rigler, survivor saved by ten British prisoners of war. Light refreshments will be served. Please call 212- 885-7900 or email: hidden-child@adl.org to RSVP by September 10.
- September 17, 2008, 8:00 p.m. – Ravensbruck Concentration Camp Memorial, Ravensbruck, Germany
- Rochelle Saidel will speak on the memorialization of Ravensbruck in the United States. For more information: www.rememberwomen.org or www.rememberwomen.org/Events/current.html
- September 18, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – DC JCC, 1529 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC
- Program: Peter Manseau, Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter and Janet R. Kirchheimer How to Spot One of Us: Poems. Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter interweaves the stories of a nonagenarian Russian immigrant and the young non-Jewish man translating his memoirs from their original Yiddish. How to Spot One of Us is a collection of over 80 poems inspired by the author’s family's tragedy in the Holocaust. Honoring their memory, she provides a moving tribute to the powers of faith and hope for the future. For fees, tickets and other information: http://washingtondcjcc.org/center-for-arts/literary/jewish-literary-festival/events/peter-manseau-and-janet.html
- September 20, 2008, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. – Morgan Family Center, 5401 Caroline St., Houston's Museum District, Houston, TX
- Museum District Day: Adults can learn from the true stories of two Houston-area survivors of the Holocaust and find out how they can help end the genocide in Darfur while children participate in an arts and crafts project designed to teach them about inspiration and hope. Activities are free. For more information: call 713-942-8000 or visit www.hmh.org.
- September 22 – October 1, 2008 – Theatre C, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
- The New York Musical Theatre Festival will present the New York premiere of To Paint the Earth, music by Jonathan Portera, words by Daniel Frederick Levin. Inspired by first-hand accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto, this tells a fictional account of the resisters and their families, exploring how a broken community was brought to one of history's most stunning and unimaginable decisions – to fight a last battle they had no chance of winning. For information / tickets: 212.352.3101 or go to http://nymf.org/Show-927.html
- 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.
- September 24, 2008 – mid March, 2009 – Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY
- Exhibit: Woman of Letters: Irène Némirovsky and Suite Française. The exhibit includes powerful rare artifacts — the actual handwritten manuscript for Suite Française, the valise in which it was found, and many personal papers and family photos. For more: www.mjhnyc.org.
- September 25, 2008, 5:30 p.m. – Edmond Safra Synagogue, 63rd St. and 5th Ave, New York, NY
- Volunteer appreciation dinner: join us as we honor our volunteer’s dedication and commitment to iVolunteer. See the FYI section for more on iVolunteer. For more information about this dinner: (646) 461-7748 or sheva@ivolunteerny.com.
- September 25, 2008, 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. – Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St., Boston, MA
- Public program: The Holocaust by Bullets: Uncovering the Truth, Honoring the Dead / An Evening with Father Patrick Desbois. For more information: Dsherman@ushmm.org.
- September 26, 2008 – Feb. 1, 2009 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Exhibit: Dr. Seuss Wants You! "Dr. Seuss," whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, is best known for his children's books, but he was a life-long cartoonist who also drafted more than 400 newspaper and magazine editorial cartoons expressing his concern and opinions in the early years of World War II. For more: www.hmh.org
- October 2, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest and Generations of the Shoah - NJ present Pope Pius and the Holocaust: Talk, book signing and reception for A Cross Too Heavy: Eugenio Pacelli with author Paul O'Shea, Ph.D. Co-sponsored by the Community Relations Council of UJCNJ, The American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League. RSVP and information: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- October 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2008, 3:00 p.m. – Morgan Family Center, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- History - Humanity - Responsibility: You Can Make a Difference: Free tours of the Holocaust Museum Houston Permanent Exhibition focusing on the ministry of Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the context of the events of the Holocaust will be offered each Sunday in October Call Suzanne Sutherland at Visitor Services, 713-942-8000, ext. 102 or visit www.hmh.org to book a tour for 10 or more.
- October 6, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – University Center 107, Drew University, Madison, NJ
- Exploring Hate as a Social and Political Process: Dr. Kathleen Blee, Distinguished Prof. of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh and Mark Weitzman, Director, Task Force Against Hate, Simon Wiesenthal Center, NY. For more information: 973/408-3600 or ctrholst@drew.edu
- October 11, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Seattle Art Museum, 1st & University, Seattle, WA
- Music of Remembrance’s “Sparks of Glory” Series program: Shemà. MOR’s Mina Miller will provide commentary on the impact of stereotyping, prejudice and repression on artists and their work. Free. For more information: | 206-365-7770 | www.musicofremembrance.org.
- October 12 – November 9, 2008 – Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester, Rochester, NY
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Varian Fry, ASSIGNMENT: RESCUE, 1940-1941. For more information: www.ushmm.org
- October 16, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Shmal'tsovniki: Bounty Hunters in German-Occupied Ukraine, 1941-1944: Among the most notorious forms of collaboration with the German occupation of Poland and Ukraine were the so-called shmal'tsovniki, bounty hunters who betrayed Jews to the German police in return for cash rewards, apartments and other incentives. In his close study of archives from District Galicia, professor Jeffrey Burds of Northeastern University has traced the nefarious roles played by these local collaborators in the Holocaust. www.hmh.org
- October 20, 2008 - February 8, 2009 – Mincberg Gallery, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- A One-Man Army: The Art of Arthur Szyk: Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was described by Eleanor Roosevelt as a "one-man army," using art as a weapon to garner support for the social and political issues in which he believed. Szyk was born in Lodz, Poland, studied art in Paris, and lived in London before immigrating to the United States in 1940. He believed his art could make a difference in the world and became one of the 20th century's most important political propagandists. For more information: www.hmh.org
- October 20, 2008, 4:00 p.m. – University Center 104, Drew University, Madison, NJ
- <Conversations with Witnesses series: Dr. Adam Broner, author of My War against the Nazis: a Jewish Soldier with the Red Army. Co-sponsored by the Russian Studies program and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education. For more: ctrholst@drew.edu
- October 25, 2008, 8:00 p.m. – Goethe Institut, 170 Beacon St., Boston, MA
- October 26, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Slosberg Auditorium, Brandeis University, Waltham MA
- Program: free concert, panel discussion and reception honoring the life and music of Holocaust victim Edwin Geist. Speakers include US Holocaust Memorial Museum musicologist Bret Werb, Geist’s biographer Reinhard Kaiser, Dr. Klaus Harer, Deputy Director of Deutsches Kulturforum and Geist’s niece Rosian Zerner. The event is co-sponsored by the German Consulate in Boston, Brandeis University, Goethe Institut and the Kulturforum. For reservations and information: Rosian@Zerner.com
- November 1 – December 13, 2008 – West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Schindler. For more information: www.ushmm.org
- November 2, 2008, 4:00 p.m., November 3, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, 3rd & University, Seattle, WA
- Music of Remembrance’s Fall Concert: Screening of the 1920 silent film The Golem with a live performance of Israeli composer Betty Olivero’s score, led by guest conductor and silent film specialist Guenter Buchwald. In her introductory remarks, MOR’s Mina Miller will discuss how this classic film—based on an early Jewish legend—reveals perceptions of Jews and Jewish identity in early 20th-century Germany. For more information and tickets: $36 | 206-365-7770 | www.musicofremembrance.org
- November 8, 2008 - February 21, 2009 – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
- Exhibit: Courage and Compassion: The Legacy of the Bielski Brothers showcases the heroic efforts of three brothers who helped save more than 1,000 Jews during World War II. It is timed to coincide with the opening of the movie Defiance, starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber and directed by Edward Zwick, based on the story of the Bielski brothers and the lives of the people they helped rescue. For more: www.flholocaustmuseum.org.
- November 9, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Anshe Emet Synagogue, 3751 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL
- Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Kristallnacht Observance: Noted Holocaust scholar Debórah Dwork will be the featured speaker for the program marking the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht. For further information, please contact info@hmfi.org.
- November 10, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Greenburgh Hebrew Center, Dobbs Ferry, NY
- Interfaith program: Kristallnacht Remembrance. Free and open to public. For more information: www.g-h-c.org
- November 13, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – University Center, Drew University, Madison, NJ
- (Holocaust Survivor) Sophie Freud speaking on Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family. For more information: ctrholst@drew.edu.
FYI: For your information
- FYI… On the night of November 9, 2008, the 70th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom, we will light a symbolic artistic display in our compound at the Mishenot Sha’ananim conference center in Jerusalem. We plan the lighting ceremony for 8 pm (20:00) Israel time. At the same time, synagogues in Germany and Austria, as well as in other countries of Europe, will set their lights on, and even add extra lighting by projectors directed at the synagogues. The synagogues, as well as the display, will remain illuminated all night. At some places, schoolchildren will stand in front of the synagogues as symbolic "guards". There is an initiative going on in Israel, to illuminate the synagogues all over the country from 20:00 (Israel time) and keep the lights on all night. Another initiative is that churches should ring their bells at the same time (20:00 Israel time), as a sign of solidarity. For more information contact: hanna@mishkenot.org.il or www.mishkenot.org.il
- FYI… For information on the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, the award winning searchable database of indices to Jewish records of Poland: www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/index.htm
- FYI… A 2G Holocaust Study Tour Poland and Czech Republic is being organized by NEXTGENERATIONS in Florida for June 14 – 22, 2009. For details of the day-by-day itinerary and more information: ngnewz@gmail.com
- FYI… Are you an educator? Engage in GAHGE (Global Association of Holocaust Genocide Educators), the network designed to keep you in touch with educators around the world. GAHGE enables educators to share information and resources. The network was established at Yad Vashem's Sixth International Conference on the Holocaust and Education by Barbara Wind, director of the Holocaust Council of MetroWest. Plans are in the works for a website for this on-line forum. It’s free and it’s easy to join. Educators interested in joining GAHGE can contact Barbara Wind at bwind@ujcnj.org.
- FYI… Online Seminar: Holocaust and Human Behavior
By using the Holocaust as a case study, we raise profound moral questions about the consequences of our actions and our beliefs. Facing History teachers help their students make connections between history and the moral choices they make every day. This online seminar features a live conference call with a survivor of the Holocaust. For more information: www2.facinghistory.org/campus/events.nsf/ProfessionalDevelopmentSeminarsByOffice?ReadForm - FYI… from New York City: iVolunteer is a dynamic visitation program that sends volunteers to the homes of Holocaust survivors, providing them with companionship and much-needed assistance. Our volunteers are carefully matched with survivors who live nearby and share common interests. Through weekly visits, our volunteers build rewarding and enduring friendships with survivors. They are given the privilege of hearing extraordinary stories, and the inter-generational bonds that inevitably form ensure the experience of the Holocaust will not be forgotten. For more information: www.ivolunteerny.com
- FYI… From Connect2 in Brooklyn, NY:
Connect2 is a friendly visiting program for Holocaust survivors. We are looking for young men to visit male survivors in their home in Flatbush every week. This is a great opportunity for college students and a huge mitzvah. Please call 718-449-5000 X 2216 - FYI… Meir Panim has always been firmly committed to tackle the harmful effects of poverty on the people of Israel. An important task of Meir Panim is to provide relief services for thousands of Holocaust survivors across Israel. These unfortunate people have witnessed more than enough suffering in their lifetime and should not suffer from hunger. For more information on Meir Panim’s efforts, including their holiday cards, please visit www.meirpanim.org.
- FYI... Articles in the news...
- Survivors: Block Yad Vashem
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1007109.html- Israel cuts budget to help survivors
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109783.html- It's the economy, 'tipesh'
- Budapest survivors eligible for compensation
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109832.html- EU presidency to highlight Jewish restitution
- Compensation for Jewish community
- Survivors’ funding falls victim to budget crunch
www.njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/081408/njSurvivorsFunding.html- The road to restitution
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bd4c94ee-68d0-11dd-a4e5-0000779fd18c.html- 70 years on, children who fled Nazis for U.K. to receive German pensions
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1012844.html- Reparation cannot ease horrors of the Holocaust
www.gazette.net/stories/08202008/gaitnew231226_32468.shtml- Memories come back to haunt Holocaust survivors
www.mg.co.za/article/2008-07-20-memories-come-back-to-haunt-holocaust-survivors- Holocaust haunts survivors; agencies try to help
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=SimpleSite/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1219572119099- Time to clear the air on Holocaust bill
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=30&Ar
Opposing position to the above piece: We have our own voice- Bitter Holocaust Battle Plays Out on Capitol Hill
http://www.nysun.com/opinion/bitter-holocaust-battle-plays-out-on-capitol-hill/82969/- Tell Congress to tell the insurers to pay up
www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/35726/format/html/displaystory.html- Chasing down Jewish partisans - not Nazi collaborators
- Yad Vashem blasts Lithuania for revisionism
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1218446174594- Vandals hit Vilnius JCC
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109880.html- Attack On Vilnius Jewish Centre
- Wiesenthal Center Denounces Tisha B'av Desecration of Jewish Community in Vilnius
www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=312458&content_id={1C995402-2682-4020-8969-00339CCE4B84}¬oc=1&msource=08news&tr=y&auid=3899378- Vilnius: Capital of Culture or Injustice?
www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c55_a13203/Editorial__Opinion/Opinion.html- Europe’s Shameful Honoring of Vilnius
www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=1531911&ct=5635079- Construction halted at Lithuania mass gravesite
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109946.html- Elderly partisans' backers hoping Lithuania leader will stop probe
http://jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20080826Lithuaniapartisans08212008.html- Polish Investigators Tie Partisans to Massacre
www.forward.com/articles/13935/- Auschwitz museum seeks world-funding
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109835.html- Alleged Nazi's extradition hearing opens
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109972.html- Australian court rules for extradition
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110014.html- Germany: Scanners help archive Holocaust documents
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/31/germany-scanners-help-archive-holocaust-documents/- Nazi Archives Documented in Powerful Portfolio by Photographer ...
- Richard Ehrlich photographs an archive of Holocaust cruelty
www.latimes.com/theguide/art/la-ca-ehrlich24-2008aug24,0,7196309.story- Ich Ein Berliner
www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c44_a13237/The_Arts/Books.html- 'Kosher anti-Semitism' in Germany
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1218710366461- Journalist refuses to settle German case
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109917.html- French Jews sue YouTube
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109945.html- Regional Conference on Combating anti-Semitism to be held in Bucharest
- Swedish teachers fail Holocaust test
- Last Call for Landsmanschaften? Aid Societies Fold as Old-Country Ties Fade
http://www.forward.com/articles/14060/- Holocaust scholars in new plea for exhibit on WWII rescue group
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1219218613473- Youngstown exhibit remembers Oskar Schindler as unlikely hero
- Why Kook is out
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1219218610801- Happy hundredth Andre
http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/2008/08/22/1485/happy-hundredth-andre/- Edison, NJ - Holocaust Survivor Saved All Reparation Money, To Donate Sefer Torah
- Sobibor survivor to speak
- Holocaust survivor joins peace voyage into troubled waters
- Society announces historic preservation honorees
- Prominent Jews among wartime spies
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109936.html- Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center Could Become Museum
- Comic-Book Idols Rally to Aid a Holocaust Artist
www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/arts/design/09comi.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=14458a54b90b72c5&ex=1218945600&emc=eta1- Hitler art collection now online
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109763.html- Nazi items sold at Dublin market
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109794.html- Construction at cemetery site halted
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109724.html- Son of Nazi doctor seeks to donate father's money to Holocaust education
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1014781.html- Holocaust survivor, rescuer live like sisters
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25989504/from/ET/- Recording the fate of an entire generation
- Saving Jewish children
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1215331152866- Buchenwald liberator, American hero dies at 83
www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/14/buchenwald.liberator/index.html- Survivor, daughter relate story
www.northjersey.com/news/religion/27517109.html?c=y&page=2- Healing a Wounded Covenant: Children of Holocaust Survivors Reclaim their Heritage
www.ou.org/index.php/jewish_action/article/41103- Jerry's emotional journey to Nazi death camps
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article1513926.ece- Jerry Springer will keynote book festival
www.stljewishlight.com/news/304943424497294.php- Trip to Europe helps educators teach Holocaust lessons
- Catholic educators become students in course on Holocaust
- From Stockton College Holocaust Resource Center to Yad Vashem ...
- Illinois teacher receives national fellowship
- 8th Graders Make Holocaust Measure a Reality
www.ushmm.org/newsletter/museum/story.php?path=2008/08&content=whittaker&tr=y&auid=3919395- KCC to host “Children of the Holocaust” exhibit
- Should Mein Kampf Be Un-Banned?
- Educator establishes guidance program for Holocaust teachers
- Workshop on holocaust education planned
- TEACHER ATTENDS HOLOCAUST SEMINAR
- JCC presents special speaker from the National Catholic Center for ...
- Lessons from a dark chapter in world history
- The Wyman aliya
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1218446173988- Berlin's Holocaust memorial vandalized
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110068.html- Swastikas found in Washington field
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109999.html- Atlanta day school vandalized
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110032.html- Chattanooga: Building a community one clip at a time
- Book Takes Different Look at Horrors of Holocaust
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu Writes Foreword to Southern African ...
- Israel's First Flying Hero
http://jewishmag.com/126mag/george_ernest_goodman/george_ernest_goodman.htm#FOOTNOTE- CANDLES collecting shoes for Darfur
www.tribstar.com/news/local_story_236211213.html- Helping kids one pair of shoes at a time
www.wthitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8897614- MD Podiatrist Collects Shoes for Children of Darfur
www.podiatrym.com/news2.cfm?id=21531&start=1- Turkey Decries Toronto School Board Genocide Course
- FYI… For information on Romanian Jewish history: http://haruth.com/jw/JewsRomania.html
- FYI… The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has a new video on Nazi Olympics:
www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/videos/?content=aamerican&tr=y&auid=3921753- FYI… Looking for information regarding passengers on the freighter ship Navemar and its voyage to the United States on September 1941. Much has been written about the ocean liner St. Louis and its fateful and unsuccessful trip to bring Jewish refugees to the United States and Cuba. There were many other instances of hardship and sacrifice in the race against time to escape from Germany, Austria and Nazi-occupied Europe including the voyage made by the freighter Navemar. The Navemar was a Spanish freighter that boarded 769 refugees on a journey that took them from Seville, Spain to Casablanca, Morocco to Bermuda to Havana and ultimately to Brooklyn, New York. I am writing on behalf of Dr. Eva Stahl who was an eight-year-old child on that voyage. She’s eager to find other passengers. Her father was an amateur photographer who took many pictures during the voyage and is willing to share them with other passengers. If you were a passenger, or are the descendent of one, please contact hfrankel@optonline.net or call 732 572-0036
- FYI… A search, from Fiona Gardner, a photographer in NYC:
I am a photographer in New York City. I am doing a book on former Miss Subways. A selection from the project appeared in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/12/29/nyregion/thecity/20071230_MISSSUBWAYS_SLIDESHOW_index.html
One of the former Miss Subways that I am looking for, Elizabeth Stern, is a Holocaust survivor. I am contacting your organization in the hopes that you might be able to help me find her. She was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1939 and arrived at Idlewild airport in New York on Nov 15, 1959. I contacted the Office of homeland security and they had an INS-foreign address and occupation index card for a woman named Janina E. Stern that was born in Poland in 1939 and arrived on Nov 15 1959. The archivist thought that it is a very good chance that the person I am looking for is Janina Elizabeth Stern. Stern would have been her family name and she very likely got married and changed her last name. I appreciate your assistance in finding Elizabeth Stern. You can reach me by phone 917-664-9036 or fionagardner@gmail.com- FYI… Karen Frostig is a visual artist and author, and daughter of a Holocaust survivor from Vienna. She is working on a large project that entails a series of "memory panels," which will be on display at the University of Vienna in 2008. She needs to photograph profiles of noses of survivors or children of survivors:
- "The Jewish nose, which was a measure of anti-Semitism in
- The nose will be Photoshopped to read just as a nose, no more than 2” in size, she will delete all other identifying information. If you live outside of the Boston area, you can send her a high-resolution jpeg of the profile of your nose to her email address: karenfrostig@comcast.net. In advance, Karen thanks you for participating in this project, intended to extend Holocaust memory in Vienna.
- Survivors: Block Yad Vashem
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