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Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
November 2008
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Dear Members and Friends,
Children and grandchildren of survivors who are attending the upcoming World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust (WFJCSH) conference this month are invited to participate in a “sharing session” entitled Holocaust Programs in our Communities: What Works and What Doesn’t to talk about your local communities’ programs and commemorations that have been successful. Those who wish to share will be given a few minutes to talk about what has / hasn’t worked so we can learn from each other’s successes and challenges. Please give this some thought so you will be prepared to present your comments in just a few minutes. Time will be monitored to allow everyone the chance to have a turn. Feel free to talk about community service projects and group activities that you think others might like to know about. If you have questions or would like to sign up in advance of the conference, contact etfinder@juno.com. You can also sign up at the conference.

    The Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center of the American Red Cross
    will also have an information booth at the WFJCSH conference. This service can help to provide the following:
  1. Search for Missing Family Members
  2. Documentation about Family Members or Yourself including Deportations, Internments, Forced Labor and Evacuation (including documentation required for reparations).
    If you want to initiate a search, please bring the following required information to the Conference:
  1. First and last name and any name variations for the sought person(s).
  2. Date of birth (range of up to 10 years if exact birth date is unknown).
  3. Place of birth – at least the country, but provide as much information as possible: town, village or city if known.
  4. Place where sought person last resided: a town and street address is helpful if known.
  5. Information about last contact with sought person (when and from where the inquirer’s family had contact with the sought person, which can be extremely helpful in suggesting tracing leads).

Finally, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum continues to build its collection of original photographs, documents, and artifacts relating to the experiences of the Holocaust in Europe, Palestine, the Far East, and the Americas. They are looking for original documents, letters, diaries, artwork, music, photographs, clothing, religious materials, memorial (Yizkor) books, personal artifacts, toys, historic film footage, home movies, and other artifacts from the time period surrounding the Holocaust. If you have materials that you would like to bring to their attention, please contact: Kyra Schuster, Division of Collections, KSchuster@ushmm.org. Kyra will be at the WFJCSH Conference, if participants have anything they would like to donate.

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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The German Government has announced a one-time payment of 2,000 Euros (approximately $3,000 USD) for Holocaust Survivors who performed non-forced work while living in a ghetto. FREE ASSISTANCE is available for survivors in Northern New Jersey who wish to apply for this payment. If you are a survivor and think you might qualify, please call the HOLOCAUST REPARATIONS HOTLINE in Northern New Jersey at 1-866-261-8003

Florida Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen filed a Brief in Federal Court to protect the legal rights of Holocaust Survivors seeking to settle insurance claims. more information...»


ANNOUNCEMENTS
From Yad Vashem
Recently Launched Educational Series: “Years Wherein We Have Seen Evil”
This groundbreaking monograph series (available in English and Hebrew) deals with historical events during the Holocaust period with an emphasis on how religiously observant individuals-and the observant public as a whole-experienced and coped during the Shoah. It focuses on the story of religious Jewry during the Holocaust within the general historical framework, as well as in a broader Jewish context. The series is based on various sources including archival documents, halachic and rabbinic decisions, and memoirs of survivors. Yad Vashem’s Online Exhibit, “With Sanctity and With Valor,” incorporates video testimonies from the “Years Wherein We have Seen Evil,” series, and in and of itself explores issues of faith and observance before, during and after the Holocaust. Reminder from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. is seeking to rescue the evidence worldwide by expanding its search for Holocaust survivors while there is still time. The Museum’s Survivors Registry maintains the most comprehensive listing of Holocaust survivors in the world, currently containing over 195,000 records related to survivors and their families. Visit our website www.ushmm.org/registry for further information and to download registration forms in any of the 17 languages available. Contact person: Jaime J. Monllor, International Outreach Officer: jmonllor@ushmm.org. From the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center (HDEC) in FL
Call for Holocaust Artifacts and Memorabilia: In anticipation of opening the first South Florida Holocaust Museum, the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center is collecting documents, letters, photographs, and artifacts from the Holocaust. We would like to give these remnants a permanent home for present and future generations to see. Please contact Rositta E. Kenigsberg, Executive Vice President, at 950-929-5690 or info@hdec.org.

Survivor testimony is still requested. For more than 28 years the Center has been collecting survivor, rescuer and liberator testimony. Please contact Rita Hofrichter at 954-929-5690x208 to schedule your interview. Together, let us preserve, protect, and perpetuate the authentic memory of the Holocaust so that present and future generations will learn the lesson that must be taught.

From the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany
To see the latest news from the ITS: www.its-arolsen.org.


UPCOMING CONFERENCES

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.
Italy and the Holocaust: The Calabria Connection
November 10, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Campus Center Ballroom 3rd floor, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
Free and open to the public. For more information and to RSVP (required): holocaustconference@gmail.com or call 617-287-5726.
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
Kick-off: Videoconference Event with Gerda Weissmann Klein
December 2, 2008, 1-2:30 p.m. (EST)
STAND UP. SPEAK OUT. LEND A HAND involves students looking critically at the Holocaust and then turning that critical lens on social issues in their own communities. March 3, 2008, 1-2:15 PM ET students have an opportunity to again meet with Gerda Klein via video conference to share their service projects in order to help make this a more caring world. For more information / registration: www.magpi.net/programs/klein.html
Council of Holocaust Educators Sixth Annual Conference
The 60th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention: Where do we stand today?
December 4 - 5, 2008
Brookdale Community College
765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ For details and registration forms, see www.che-nj.org or www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/120408120508con.pdf
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

Day of Holocaust Studies
Facing the Onslaught: Jewish life in Germany, 1933-39
November 9, 2008 2:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Gratz College
7605 Old York Road, Melrose Park, PA
ACT 48 Activity Hour credits available. For more: www.gratzcollege.edu, mblechman@gratz.edu
Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide:
Fighting Racism and Prejudice in a Multicultural Society
November 10, 2008 8:15a.m. -3:15 p.m.
College of St. Elizabeth, Annunciation Center
2 Convent Road, Morristown, NJ
This workshop is the opening program of CSE's Annual Week of Holocaust Remembrance. Free. 8 professional development hours. For complete program and more information about programs during the week go to www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter. www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/111008teach.pdf
Emil Gumpert Teachers’ Workshop
Visual Impact: Using Film to Teach about the Holocaust and Genocide
November 12, 2008 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Ramapo College, Trustees Pavilion (Rooms 2 & 3), Mahwah, NJ
Free of charge and 5 hours towards certification renewal. For information: mriff@ramapo.edu
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
Advanced Seminar Holocaust and Language Arts Poetry Literature Art Memorial, History
December 21- 28, 2008
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
www1.yadvashem.org/education/department/english/FlyerAdvanced2008.pdf
10 Day Jewish Educators Seminar
December 21, 2008- January 1, 2009
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
www1.yadvashem.org/education/department/english/Flyerbeginners2008.pdf
10 Day Jewish Educators Seminar
December 21, 2008- January 1, 2009 Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
www1.yadvashem.org/education/department/english/Flyerbeginners2008.pdf
The Holocaust and Other Genocides:
Historical Contexts, Legal Issues, and Ethical Dilemmas
January 5-9, 2009 US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Applications must be postmarked or received in electronic form by Friday, November 7, 2008, and sent to: university_programs@ushmm.org. For questions, contact Dr. Dieter Kuntz at 202-314-1779 or dkuntz@ushmm.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Now - 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
Now - 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.
Now – November 9, 2008 – JCC 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
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 - November 12, 2008  – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
World premiere of Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photographs of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman exhibit, presented by the Holocaust Council of MetroWest and the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation. For information: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
Now – November 16, 2008 – JCC 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
Now - November 24, 2008 – Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond, VA;
Exhibition:  Who Am I? Young Minds Forced to Choose, created by the Arnold-Liebster Foundation, examines the lives and experiences of young Jehovah's Witnesses who suffered due to their refusal to accept Nazi ideology. This is an effective tool to address contemporary student issues, such as bullying and prejudice. Includes educational materials for students. For more information: www.va-holocaust.com
Now – December 10, 2008 – University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945. For more information: www.ushmm.org.
Now – December 13, 2008 – West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Schindler. For more information: www.ushmm.org
Now – December 19, 2008  – Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington, IN
Pushmepullyou: A Jewish/German Dialogue Disclosed. How do two Germans talk to each other in a post-Holocaust world if they come from a Jewish and a non-Jewish family background? Karen Baldner and Bjorn Krondorfer explore this question in an interactive installation of sculptures and artist books. For more: 812-855-6873.
Now- December 2008 – Rohrer Center, Camden Community College, 1889 Rt 70 East, Cherry Hill, 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/ccc_lecture_series.pdf
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. For more: info@szyk.org
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Now – February 1, 2009 – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
Exhibit:  Holocaust Portfolio, by Martin Mendelsberg, combines Hebrew characters with historical photographs to depict life before and during the Holocaust using a unique combination of text and photography. For more: www.flholocaustmuseum.org.
Now – Feb. 1, 2009 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Exhibit:  Dr. Seuss Wants You! 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.
Now - February 8, 2009 – Mincberg Gallery, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
A One-Man Army: The Art of Arthur Szyk: exhibition of the work of the Polish Jewish artist who escaped to the US in 1940 and used art as a weapon to garner support for the social and political issues in which he believed. For more information: www.hmh.org.
Now - Feb. 1, 2009 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Exhibit: Dr. Seuss Wants You! 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
Now - 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/irene.
Now – April, 2009 – Holocaust Resource Center at Temple Judea, Manhasset, NY
Exhibit:  The Memory Project: Loss, Memory, History, Art: A Holocaust survivor’s riveting testimony about life in the Warsaw ghetto and the brother she lost to the Nazis is blended with time-lapsed images of her daughter painting a series of haunting oil portraits of that boy—her uncle. For more information: 516-621-8049
Now - June 22, 2009, – Rosenberger Library of Judaica, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Exhibit: East European Jews in the German Jewish Imagination. This exhibition traces the view of East European Jewry by German Jews from emancipation in the nineteenth century to the decline of German-Jewish life on the eve of World War II. The various images of the Ostjuden presented reflect the complex face of German Jewry itself. For more: www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/curex.html#m
November 2 – 9, 2008 – Toronto, Canada
28th Annual Holocaust Education Week offering more than 100 educational and cultural programs, including first-hand testimonies from survivors. To reach as many diverse groups as possible, programs and speakers are presented in a wide array of venues throughout the Greater Toronto Area and beyond, including churches, synagogues, university and college campuses, libraries, theatres and schools. For more information: www.holocausteducationweek.com/
November 2, 2008, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.  – 802 Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY
Screening and discussion of Our Children (Undzere Kinder), in Yiddish with English subtitles, presented by The Freudian Colloquium Committee. In this film, part docu-drama, part melancholic comedy, produced in Poland but never shown there, the virtuoso comedy duo Dzigan and Szumacher perform for an audience of Jewish orphans, many of whom were sole survivors of the Holocaust. Panelists: Maurice Preter, Isaac Tylim, Judith Eckman-Jadow. Moderator: Rivka Greenberg. For more information: www.nyu.edu/fas/program/postdoctoral/events/index.html and for program notes: www.psychiatryneurology.com/movies/Nov42007.htm.
November 2, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of MetroWest Real to Reel film series: Children of Chabannes, discussion with Norbert Bikales, one of the children in the film. Light refreshments will follow. Please RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
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 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 2, 2008, 7:30 p.m.  – Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
Program: award-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw will present the world premiere of a Terezin Chamber Music Foundation (TCMF) commissioned work. For more information: www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_11389_pn.html?selecteddate=11022008
November 3, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Beth El Congregation, 8101 Park Heights Ave, Baltimore, MD
Kristallnacht: The November Pogrom. Program: The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda in Europe and the Middle East During the Holocaust with speaker Jeffrey Herf, Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park. For more: jparmigiani@baltjc.org
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November 3, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – Wilde Auditorium, Grey Conference Center, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
Multimedia program: Speaking Truth to Power: Sophie Scholl & The White Rose, Role Models in the Fight for Freedom presented by Dr. Jud Newborn. For information, contact the Hartford Hillel Foundation, Tel.: 860-768-7956 or nicolette@hartfordhillel.org.
November 3, 2008, 7:30 p.m.  – West Houston Christian Center, 11300 Wilcrest Green Drive, Houston, TX
12th Annual Kristallnacht Memorial in honor of Houston Council of Holocaust Survivors & Holocaust Museum Houston in Memory of Lea Weems: My Name is Believe: The Story of Max Glauben. For more information, 281-469-1045 or www.rbooker.com
November 4, 2008, 12:00 noon – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of MetroWest: Lunch and Learn with World War II veteran Bertram Levenson. Please bring a dairy lunch, beverage and cookies provided. To RSVP and for information: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
November 6, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – York Room, The Birch Mansion, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ
Program: Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-1945 with Dr. Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, New York University. For more: mriff@ramapo.edu
November 6, 2008, 8:30 p.m. – Zinman Hall, Boca Raton, FL
Verdict at Auschwitz is an unparalleled documentary chronicling the 20 months of proceedings and trials of the participants who perpetrated the atrocities at Auschwitz. English and German. Fees. For tickets and information: KFF@bocafed.org or 561-470-2013.
November 7, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, Mahwah, NJ
Kristallnacht Commemoration (70th Anniversary) featuring Ms. Susan Gold, a survivor from Lvov, Poland. For more information: mriff@ramapo.edu
November 7, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Wallace All Faiths Chapel, Fish Interfaith Center, Orange, CA
Kristallnacht: Broken Glass – Shattered Community: An Interfaith Service of Remembrance with special guest speaker Cantor Leopold Szneer, Survivor of Kristallnacht and the Holocaust. Shabbat dinner follows service. For more information: www.chapman.edu/holocausteducation
November 8 - December 13, 2008 – Cornette Library, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Schindler. For more information: www.ushmm.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 8, 2008, 8:00 p.m. – Sunrise Cinemas – Mizner, Boca Raton, FL
Film: Fugitive Pieces. During an archaeological dig in Nazi occupied Poland, a young boy is discovered hiding after witnessing his family’s massacre. As he grows older, he is consumed by thoughts of his family’s tragedy, and also what became of his sister. Fees. For tickets and information: KFF@bocafed.org or 561-470-2013
November 8, 2008, 8:00 p.m. – Hoyt Sherman Theater, Des Moines, IA
Premiere: The Sparks Fly Upward is a musical drama that follows three German families in Berlin, two Jewish and one Christian, through the Holocaust. For more information: www.thesparksflyupward.org
November 9 – December 30, 2008 – San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, TX
Exhibit: Letters to Sala: A Lifeline of Letters Document an Extraordinary Story of Survival and Courage during the Holocaust. The items – from a young girl’s diary to handwritten postcards to photographs to official documents -- were saved at great personal risk by Sala Garncarz from the time she entered a Nazi labor camp in 1940 until her liberation in 1945. Contact 210/225-4728 for more information. Note: Special opening event will be November 9th at 1:00 p.m. and will feature Ann Kirschner, Sala’s daughter and author of Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story and Jill Vexler, the curator of the exhibition.
November 9, 2008, 12:30 p.m.  – Sunrise Cinemas – Mizner, Boca Raton, FL
Film: The Counterfeiters, examines the moral dilemma faced by Jewish prisoners forced to carry out the Nazi counterfeiting scheme known as "Operation Bernhard." Fees. For tickets and information: KFF@bocafed.org or 561-470-2013
November 9, 2008, 1:30 p.m. – JCC of Metropolitan Detroit, Detroit, MI
As part of the Detroit Jewish Book Fair, Michael Bart, author of Until Our Last Breath: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance, will share details about his parents’ escape from the Vilna ghetto and their experiences living and fighting in the forest as members of the Partisans of Vilna. For more information: www.untilourlastbreath.com
November 9, 2008, 2:00 p.m.  – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
Kristallnacht commemoration. For more information: www.flholocaustmuseum.org
November 9, 2008, 2:30 p.m. – Sunrise Cinemas – Mizner, Boca Raton, FL
Film: Schindler’s List: The story of the German businessman who ultimately saved 1,100 Jews from certain death. Fees. For tickets and information: KFF@bocafed.org or 561-470-2013
November 9, 2008, 2:30 p.m. – Beth Weizmann Community Center, Caulfield South, Australia
Book launch on the 70th commemoration of Kristallnacht: And the Rat Laughed with guest speaker, author Nava Semel. The book tells of a survivor in Tel Aviv who shares her story as a hidden child with only a rat for company. RSVP: hybridpublishers@optusnet.com.au
November 9, 2008, 3:00 p.m. – JCC of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD
Kristallnacht Commemoration: with guest speaker Mark Talisman, founding Vice Chair of the US Holocaust Council and Museum. For more information: etfinder@juno.com
November 9, 2008, 3:30-5:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Suzy Snyder, Associate Curator, Art and Artifacts branch, will interview five Holocaust survivors about their Kristallnacht experiences. For more information: www.ushmm.org.
November 9, 2008, 6:00 p.m. – Christ the King Lutheran Church, Houston, TX
Kristallnacht Commemoration with speakers survivor Ben Waserman, Bishop Michael Rinehart of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Rabbi David Lyon of Congregation Beth Israel; Rainer Münzel, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany; and Asher Yarden, Consul General of Israel. For more information contact the Holocaust Museum Houston: www.hmh.org
November 9, 2008, 6:30 pm – Congregation B'nai Israel, 160 Millburn Avenue, Millburn, NJ
Commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht: Tirza Freeman will speak about her personal experience of this significant event in history. A question and answer period and evening minyan will follow. Free and open to the community For more information, contact Lilli Finkler (lillianff@yahoo.com), Lori Schor (LorSchor@aol.com) or the synagogue office at 973-379-3811.
November 9, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence, RI
Shining Through Broken Glass: a concert marking the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. The program will feature actor, film director, poet and musician Leonard Nimoy as narrator, along with full orchestra, 100-voice adult choir, children's choir, and four soloists. Fees. For more information: www.teprov.org/happening/events.php?page=11854
November 9, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY
Community commemoration of Kristallnacht with Brown University Distinguished Professor Omer Bartov, featuring the voices of those who directly experienced Kristallnacht and those who remained silent and the launch of the web version of Perilous Journeys, filmed testimonies of ten local German and Austrian Jews who escaped the Nazis. For more information: babrams@jewishrochester.org
November 9, 2008, 7:00 p.m.  – Sunrise Cinemas – Mizner, Boca Raton, FL
Rape of Europa: This documentary follows the trail of artistic treasures in Europe, which were stolen by the Nazis during occupation of Europe. Fees. For tickets and information: KFF@bocafed.org or 561-470-2013.
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, 11:00 a.m.-12 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Museum historian Dr. Ann Millin will use period images and documentation to tell how the German government attempted to hide the truth about Kristallnacht and how American journalists got the story out to the world. For more information: www.ushmm.org.
November 10, 2008, 12:00 noon  – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
UJC MetroWest Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration: in the Wilf Memorial, with Kristallnacht survivor Carol Berman. For information email holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or call 973-929-3194.
November 10, 2008, 1:00 pm – Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, UN Headquarters, New York, NY
Panel discussion: Nowhere to turn with speakers Kiyo Akasaka, UN Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information; Prof. Natalia Aleksiun, Assistant Professor of Jewish history, Touro Graduate School of Jewish Studies (NYC): >Historical Perspective on the Kristallnacht Pogrom; Gary Phillips, Kristallnacht eyewitness: Testimony; Prof. Pan Guang, Dean, Centre for Jewish Studies Shanghai: The Jewish Ghetto of Shanghai; Prof. Alizabeth Newman, Director of Immigrant Initiatives, Instructor at CUNY School of Law: Populations at risk and factors affecting immigration policy; Her Excellency Ms. Gabriela Shalev, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations: The impact of the Kristallnacht pogrom and its lasting effects. The event will be webcast and archived at: www.un.org/holocaustremembrance. Limited seating, R.S.V.P. by 6 November 2008 to holocaustremembrance@un.org or by fax: 212.963.0536. Photo I.D. required for Security at 46th St. and First Ave. at 12:30 p.m.
November 10, 2008, 6:00 pm – Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, UN Headquarters, New York, NY
Film: My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner . Hosted by Kiyo Akasaka, UN Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information. Opening remarks by His Excellency Mr. Thomas Matussek, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations. Q & A with Prof. Robert Scott Kellner, grandson of Friedrich Kellner, following the film. For further information contact Ms. Kimberly Mann at 212-963-6835. Limited seating, R.S.V.P. by 6 November 2008 to holocaustremembrance@un.org or by fax: 212.963.0536. Photo I.D.required for UN Security at 46th St. and First Ave. at 5:30 p.m.
November 10, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Assembly Chamber, State House, Trenton, NJ
State of New Jersey Kristallnacht Commemoration: An Evening of Remembrance, with New Jersey State officials and guest speaker Fred Behrend, Kristallnacht survivor. For information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/111008krist.pdf
November 10, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Annunciation Center, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht: An Evening of Remembrance and Hope featuring David Gewirtzman, Holocaust Survivor and Jacqueline Murekatete, Survivor of the Rwandan Genocide with music by artist-in-residence Dr. Teresa Walters, playing “Suite for Piano: Reminiscences” by classical composer, Karel Berman, survivor of Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. For information: contact Dr. Harriet Sepinwall: 973-290-4387 or hsepinwall@cse.edu. www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter
November 10, 2008, 7:00 p.m.  – Fairleigh Dickinson University, Dickinson Hall, 140 University Plaza, Hackensack, NJ
Kristallnacht: 70 Years Later, a commemorative talk by Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, noted author and educator. All are invited; admission is free. For information: (201) 692-2263.
November 10, 2008, 7:00 p.m.  – Katz Theatre, Robinson Building, JCC of Greater Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Multimedia program: Speaking Truth to Power: Sophie Scholl & The White Rose, Role Models in the Fight for Freedom presented by Dr. Jud Newborn. For more information: 412-421-1500 or spatty@ujfpittsburgh.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 11, 2008, 12:00 p.m. – Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Garfield Theater, La Jolla, CA
As part of the San Diego Jewish Book Fair, Michael Bart, author of Until Our Last Breath: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance, will share details about his parents’ experiences with Abba Kovner’s partisan fighting group call the Avengers. Fore more information: www.untilourlastbreath.com
November 11, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – New York City College of Technology, Atrium Amphitheater, Brooklyn, NY
Event to salute legendary clothier Martin Greenfield and Cobble Hill Health Center CEO Olga Lipschitz, both Holocaust survivors, on 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Joseph Berger, New York Times columnist, editor and senior reporter on ethnic affairs, will speak. Free. Reception to follow. For more: Albert Sherman at 718.260.5837, asherman@citytech.cuny.edu
November 11, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – The Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick, NJ
Ninth Annual Rutgers NJ Film Festival: Four Seasons Lodge, about a bungalow colony in New York’s Catskill Mountains, which provided idyllic refuge to a group of Holocaust survivor families for nearly three decades. Special guest appearance: producer Matt Lavine. For further information, visit: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu, call Jodi Marcou at 732-932-4166, or email rujff@rci.rutgers.edu
November 11, 2008, 7:00 p.m.  – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Teachers Talk: Holocaust Council of MetroWest Martha Rich scholarship recipients will relate their powerful experiences at Holocaust sites in Europe and studying in Israel. All are welcome, no charge. RSVP and information: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194
November 12, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – JCC of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD
As part of the Jewish Book Festival: Chris Bohjalian author of Skeletons at the Feast, paints the brutal landscape of Nazi Germany as German refugees struggle westward ahead of the advancing Russian army. Fees. For more information: www.jccgw.org.
November 12, 2009, 7:00 p.m. – Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Screening of the feature film Swimming in Auschwitz, followed by a discussion with the film's internationally acclaimed director Jon Kean. Admission is free, but seating is limited and advance registration is required. Visit www.hmh.org/register.asp to register online.
November 13, 2008 - January 11, 2009  – Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI
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.
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.
November 13, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall, Lynn University, Boca Raton, FL
Screening of the documentary film Jerusalem in the Woods, the story of the Bielski Partisans who fought against the Nazi occupiers and their collaborators during World War II. Hundreds of men, women, and children eventually found their way to the Bielski Camp, which ultimately sheltered over a thousand inhabitants, both civilians and fighters. Fees. For more information and tickets: ndershaw@yahoo.com or judihng@yahoo.com. For information about the film: The Bielski Brothers: Jerusalem in the Woods
November 13, 2008, 8:15 p.m. – JCC of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD
As part of the Jewish Book Festival: Martin Fletcher, author ofBreaking News, son of survivors and five-time Emmy award-winning NBC News bureau chief in Tel Aviv has witnessed some of the most tumultuous moments of our time and has gleaned a greater understanding of the human element, the art of news coverage, and perhaps most importantly, how to stay alive and report the news. Fees. For more: www.jccgw.org
November 14, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Steglitz Museum, Berlin, Germany
Program: Homecoming – 69 years since she first left Berlin on the Kindertransport, and on the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Marion Charles talks about her life as a child in Nazi Germany, how her childhood ended on Kristallnacht, the Kindertransport, and now, her return to Berlin. For more information: wendy@wendyleigh.com
November 16, 2008, 12:30 p.m. – The Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick, NJ
Ninth Annual Rutgers NJ Film Festival: The Counterfeiters, examines the moral dilemma faced by Jewish prisoners forced to carry out the Nazi counterfeiting scheme known as "Operation Bernhard." For further information, visit http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu, call Jodi Marcou at 732-932-4166, or email rujff@rci.rutgers.edu
November 16, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – St. John the Evangelist Life Center, Naples, FL
The annual Kristallnacht Convocation sponsored by the Catholic / Jewish Dialogue of Southwest Florida with distinguished speakers Bishop Frank Dewane of the Diocese of Venice, FL and Professor Harry Reicher, LLD, University of Pennsylvania Law School. Free and open to the public. For more: Annrj5@aol.com
November 16, 2008, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.  – Florida Holocaust Museum, Petersburg, FL
Courage & Compassion: The Legacy of the Bielski Brothers with Ed Zwick, Director of Defiance, and members of the Bielski family. RSVP by November 7: 727-820-0100 x 222 For more information: www.flholocaustmuseum.org
November 17, 2008, 6:30 p.m.  – Tenement Museum, 108 Orchard St., New York, NY
Book reading and discussion of Erin Einhorn's The Pages In Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home. Hosted by Ira Glass of This American Life. Free. Refreshments. RSVP to info@3gnewyork.org
November 18, 2008, 12:30 p.m. – The Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick, NJ
Ninth Annual Rutgers NJ Film Festival: The Counterfeiters, examines the moral dilemma faced by Jewish prisoners forced to carry out the Nazi counterfeiting scheme known as "Operation Bernhard." For further information, visit: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu, call Jodi Marcou at 732-932-4166, or email rujff@rci.rutgers.edu.
November 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.  – The Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick, NJ
Ninth Annual Rutgers NJ Film Festival: One Day You'll Understand (Plus Tard, Tu Comprendras), depicting the search for knowledge of a family's wartime past. Speaker: Ernestine Schlant Bradley, Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature, The New School. For further information, http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu, call Jodi Marcou at 732-932-4166, or email rujff@rci.rutgers.edu.
November 18, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – BAC Theater, In den Siepen 6, 34454 Bad Arolsen, Germany
International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen will present the well-known historian Peter Longerich who is going to read out parts of his biography on Himmler recently introduced at the Frankfurt book fair. For more information: » more at www.its-arolsen.org
November 18, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Chapman Auditorium, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Voice of the Witness in the History of the Shoah with Saul Friedländer, Ph.D., The “1939” Club Chair in Holocaust Studies and Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles recipient of 2008 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Free. For more information: www.chapman.edu/holocausteducation
November 19, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – The Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick, NJ
Ninth Annual Rutgers NJ Film Festival: Four Seasons Lodge, about a bungalow colony in New York’s Catskill Mountains which has provided idyllic refuge to a group of Holocaust survivor families for nearly three decades. Special guest appearance by "Lodgers". For more information, http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu, call Jodi Marcou at 732-932-4166, or email rujff@rci.rutgers.edu.
November 19, 2008, 7:00 p.m.  – The Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick, NJ
Ninth Annual Rutgers NJ Film Festival: One Day You'll Understand (Plus Tard, Tu Comprendras), depicting the search for knowledge of a family's wartime past. Speaker: Michael Levine, Professor of German, Rutgers University. For more information, http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu, call Jodi Marcou at 732-932-4166, or email rujff@rci.rutgers.edu.
November 20, 2008, 12:00 noon – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of MetroWest Bagels and Books: discussion of My Father’s War by Lucinda Franks. Please RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
November 20, 2008, 12:00 noon – Mercer Community College, CM 109, West Windsor, NJ
Film: ONE SURVIVOR REMEMBERS. Gerda Weissman Klein takes us on a journey of survival through one of the most devastating events in the history of mankind. For more: goldwass@mccc.edu
November 20, 2008, 6:00 p.m.  – Mercer Community College, CM 109, West Windsor, NJ
Film: ROSENSTRASSE. In the cold Berlin winter of 1943, hundreds of Aryan women stood, and waited, in defiance of the Nazis, and demanded the release of their Jewish husbands. goldwass@mccc.edu
November 23, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – The Garden Jewish Center of Flushing, Queens, NY
Lecture: Examining Anti-Semitism in Poland After The Holocaust. Jan Gross, Professor of History at Princeton University, and author of the controversial books, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz, and Neighbors, will be meeting with and addressing some of the very few remaining Jewish survivors from Kielce. Free. For more: mbekier@Downstate.edu
November 23, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of MetroWest Real to Reel film series: Constantine's Sword. Light refreshments will follow. Please RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
November 24, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Sid Jacobson JCC, 300 Forest Drive, East Hills, NY
Program: An open, ongoing, vibrant discussion forum for children of Holocaust survivors. For information contact Beth E. Lilach, 516-571-8040 ext. 105, bethlilach@holocaust-nassau.org
November 25, 2008, 16:30 – 20:00 – Juridicum Schottenbastei, Vienna, Austria
Opening of the exhibit: Erinnerung im Exil / Exiled Memories. The exhibition launches a new curriculum examining the concept of "Expelled Law" in Austria in 1938. For more information: http://kalender.univie.ac.at/index.php?event_id=1041
December 1, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Rohrer Center - Room 110, Camden Community College, 1889 Rt 70 East, Cherry Hill, NJ
Screening and discussion of documentary film Paper Clips, facilitated by Prof. Diane Bannon. RSVP to Barbara Laynor, 856 874-6001 or blaynor@camdencc.edu. More information at www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/ccc_lecture_series.pdf
December 1, 2008, 7:50 p.m. – Wilkins Theatre, Kean University, Union, NJ
Dr. Jan Gross, historian, author and Princeton Professor, will speak on the theme Antisemitism in Poland After Auschwitz. Free and there will be interpretation for the deaf. For more information call the Holocaust Resource Center: (908) 737-4661.
December 7, 2008, 10:00 – 5:00 p.m.  – 314 Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Symposium The Jewish Question in French Philosophy after the Holocaust:
To RSVP cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu or call (310) 267-5327
December 10, 2008, 6:15 p.m. – Washington DC JCC, Washington, DC
As part of the 19th Washington Jewish Film Festival, the award-winning documentary A House on August Street pays tribute Beate Berger, founder of a home for Jewish children in Berlin who devised a unique rescue operation to save “her” children from the Nazis, by bringing them to a new home she built for them in Israel. Filmmaker Ayelet Bargur will be in attendance. For more information: www.wjff.org
December 10, 2008, 8:15 p.m. – Washington DC JCC, Washington, DC
As part of the Washington Jewish Film Festival: Blessed Is The Match: The Life and Death Of Hannah Senesh, the story of the World War II poet and diarist, paratrooper and resistance fighter often referred to as the modern-day Joan of Arc. In 1944, after having settled safely in Palestine, Hannah re-entered Hungary, as part of the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. For more information: www.wjff.org
December 11, 2008 10:00 am – Weinberg Jewish Community Campus, 1301Springdale Rd, Cherry Hill, NJ
Catskill Puppets production:. For reservations, call 856 751 9500 ext 249. For more: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/121108goodwin.pdf
December 11, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – The Living Room at Jewish Family Service of Bergen County, 1485 Teaneck Rd, Teaneck, NJ
Second-generation discussion group. Free of charge, advance registration preferred. For questions or to register, please contact Laura at 201-837-9090 or thelivingroom@jfsbergen.org
December 12, 2008, 4:00 p.m. – Faculty Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Commemorative Event Marking the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht and the 65th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with Michael Brenner (University of Munich) and Samuel Kassow (Trinity College). To RSVP cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 267-5327
December 13, 2008 - March 1, 2009 – Detroit Science Center, Detroit, MI
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition, Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. For more information: www.ushmm.org
December 15, 2008, 12:00 noon  – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of MetroWest: Lunch and Learn with St. Louis survivor Eva Wiener. Please bring a dairy lunch, beverage and cookies provided. To RSVP and for information: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
December 15, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
Holocaust Council of MetroWest Real to Reel film series: The Rape of Europa, discussion with Harry Ettlinger one of the Monument Men in the film. Light refreshments will follow. Please RSVP to holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194
December 24, 2008, 7:30 p.m.  – DC JCC, Washington, DC
Join with members of The Generation After at a special performance by Holocaust survivor Theodore Bikel in Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears. There will be a talk-back after the program with Mr. Bikel. Fees. For information: etfinder@juno.com
January 31, 2009, 2:00 p.m.  – Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Seattle, WA
A Vanished World: Music of Remembrance’s “Sparks of Glory” Series. This free concert-with-commentary takes its name from Roman Vishniac’s snapshot of the pre-war world of East European Jewry. In her commentary, MOR’s Mina Miller discusses how the cultural haven of the shtetl transformed into the imprisoning ghetto. For more: 206-365-7770 | www.musicofremembrance.org

KRISTALLNACHT COMMEMORATIONS
November 3, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Beth El Congregation, 8101 Park Heights Ave, Baltimore, MD
Kristallnacht: The November Pogrom. Program: The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda in Europe and the Middle East During the Holocaust with speaker Jeffrey Herf, Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park. For more: jparmigiani@baltjc.org
November 3, 2008, 7:30 p.m.  – West Houston Christian Center, 11300 Wilcrest Green Drive, Houston, TX
12th Annual Kristallnacht Memorial in honor of Houston Council of Holocaust Survivors & Holocaust Museum Houston in Memory of Lea Weems: My Name is Believe: The Story of Max Glauben. For more information, 281-469-1045 or www.rbooker.com
November 7, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, Mahwah, NJ
Kristallnacht Commemoration (70th Anniversary) featuring Ms. Susan Gold, a survivor from Lvov, Poland. For more information: mriff@ramapo.edu
November 7, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Wallace All Faiths Chapel, Fish Interfaith Center, Orange, CA
Kristallnacht: Broken Glass – Shattered Community: An Interfaith Service of Remembrance with special guest speaker Cantor Leopold Szneer, Survivor of Kristallnacht and the Holocaust. Shabbat dinner follows service. For more information: www.chapman.edu/holocausteducation
November 9, 2008, 2:00 p.m.  – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
Kristallnacht commemoration. For more information: www.flholocaustmuseum.org
November 9, 2008, 3:00 p.m. – JCC of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD
Kristallnacht Commemoration: with guest speaker Mark Talisman, founding Vice Chair of the US Holocaust Council and Museum. For more information: etfinder@juno.com
November 9, 2008, 3:30-5:00 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Suzy Snyder, Associate Curator, Art and Artifacts branch, will interview five Holocaust survivors about their Kristallnacht experiences. For more information: www.ushmm.org.
November 9, 2008, 6:00 p.m. – Christ the King Lutheran Church, Houston, TX
Kristallnacht Commemoration with speakers survivor Ben Waserman, Bishop Michael Rinehart of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Rabbi David Lyon of Congregation Beth Israel; Rainer Münzel, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany; and Asher Yarden, Consul General of Israel. For more information contact the Holocaust Museum Houston: www.hmh.org
November 9, 2008, 6:30 pm – Congregation B'nai Israel, 160 Millburn Avenue, Millburn, NJ
Commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht: Tirza Freeman will speak about her personal experience of this significant event in history. A question and answer period and evening minyan will follow. Free and open to the community For more information, contact Lilli Finkler (lillianff@yahoo.com), Lori Schor (LorSchor@aol.com) or the synagogue office at 973-379-3811.
November 9, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence, RI
Shining Through Broken Glass: a concert marking the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. The program will feature actor, film director, poet and musician Leonard Nimoy as narrator, along with full orchestra, 100-voice adult choir, children's choir, and four soloists. Fees. For more information: www.teprov.org/happening/events.php?page=11854
November 9, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY
Community commemoration of Kristallnacht with Brown University Distinguished Professor Omer Bartov, featuring the voices of those who directly experienced Kristallnacht and those who remained silent and the launch of the web version of Perilous Journeys, filmed testimonies of ten local German and Austrian Jews who escaped the Nazis. For more information: babrams@jewishrochester.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, 11:00 a.m.-12 p.m. – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Museum historian Dr. Ann Millin will use period images and documentation to tell how the German government attempted to hide the truth about Kristallnacht and how American journalists got the story out to the world. For more information: www.ushmm.org.
November 10, 2008, 12:00 noon  – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
UJC MetroWest Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration: in the Wilf Memorial, with Kristallnacht survivor Carol Berman. For information email holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or call 973-929-3194.
November 10, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Assembly Chamber, State House, Trenton, NJ
State of New Jersey Kristallnacht Commemoration: An Evening of Remembrance, with New Jersey State officials and guest speaker Fred Behrend, Kristallnacht survivor. For information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/111008krist.pdf
November 10, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Annunciation Center, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht: An Evening of Remembrance and Hope featuring David Gewirtzman, Holocaust Survivor and Jacqueline Murekatete, Survivor of the Rwandan Genocide with music by artist-in-residence Dr. Teresa Walters, playing “Suite for Piano: Reminiscences” by classical composer, Karel Berman, survivor of Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. For information: contact Dr. Harriet Sepinwall: 973-290-4387 or hsepinwall@cse.edu. www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter
November 10, 2008, 7:00 p.m.  – Fairleigh Dickinson University, Dickinson Hall, 140 University Plaza, Hackensack, NJ
Kristallnacht: 70 Years Later, a commemorative talk by Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, noted author and educator. All are invited; admission is free. For information: (201) 692-2263.
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 11, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – New York City College of Technology, Atrium Amphitheater, Brooklyn, NY
Event to salute legendary clothier Martin Greenfield and Cobble Hill Health Center CEO Olga Lipschitz, both Holocaust survivors, on 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Joseph Berger, New York Times columnist, editor and senior reporter on ethnic affairs, will speak. Free. Reception to follow. For more: Albert Sherman at 718.260.5837, asherman@citytech.cuny.edu
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
November 14, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Steglitz Museum, Berlin, Germany
Program: Homecoming – 69 years since she first left Berlin on the Kindertransport, and on the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Marion Charles talks about her life as a child in Nazi Germany, how her childhood ended on Kristallnacht, the Kindertransport, and now, her return to Berlin. For more information: wendy@wendyleigh.com
November 16, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – St. John the Evangelist Life Center, Naples, FL
The annual Kristallnacht Convocation sponsored by the Catholic / Jewish Dialogue of Southwest Florida with distinguished speakers Bishop Frank Dewane of the Diocese of Venice, FL and Professor Harry Reicher, LLD, University of Pennsylvania Law School. Free and open to the public. For more: Annrj5@aol.com
December 12, 2008, 4:00 p.m. – Faculty Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Commemorative Event Marking the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht and the 65th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with Michael Brenner (University of Munich) and Samuel Kassow (Trinity College). To RSVP cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 267-5327

FYI: For your information

FYI…  from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL):
The ADL has information on: Iran's Culture Ministry Promotes Vicious Anti-Semitism In Naming "Winners" of Holocaust Cartoon Contest www.adl.org/main_Arab_World/cartoon_contest.htm and additional information: www.adl.org/main_Arab_World/default.htm
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…  Film company is looking for Auschwitz Union Factory Survivors AD HOC FILMS, a Canadian documentary film company, is producing a film about a group of female forced laborers working in quality control at the Union Metal ammunition factory in Auschwitz. For December 12, 1944, the 20th birthday of one of them named Fania Landau, another one of those girls, Zlatka, put together a small booklet in the shape of a heart, which they all signed with birthday and liberty wishes for Fania. This small booklet is now on display at the Montreal Holocaust Center and Museum.

We are trying to trace those women to tell that beautiful small-scale story in a film that will be broadcast by Canadian public TV in 2009. This is not an easy task, made harder since we only have their first names, as signed in the book. Those names are (with their language): Polish: Rachela, Irena, Mina, Halinka or Hanka, Fela, Hanka W., Berta, Mala, Mira, Giza, Tania or Frania, Cesia. Also, Ruth (German), Helene/Lena and Eva Pany (French), Gûsia (possibly Czech), NZ or NM (Hebrew).

We are also interested in the testimonies of those women's families. Please contact us with any information, even tiny bits of knowledge can prove helpful! Catherine Pelchat, (514) 529-2198, catherine.pelchat@sympatico.ca, http://heart-of-auschwitz.blogspot.com/

FYI…  The Memory Project: Framing History Through the Artist's Lens Exhibition (November - April) www.memoryprojectproductions.com/The_Memory_Project/About_the_Project.html Facing History and Ourselves and the Holocaust Resource Center are partnering to provide teacher workshops and educational resources for schools interested in visiting The Memory Project during its run at the Holocaust Resource Center. For more information, contact Irving Roth, 516-621-8049 or irvingroth1@verizon.net.
FYI… …"Names, Not Numbers© ": A Lasting Way to Teach the Lessons of the Holocaust
"Names, Not Numbers" is a copyrighted oral history film project and curriculum which Tova Fish-Rosenberg created to transform traditional Holocaust history lessons into a lively, interactive, non-traditional program involving individuals who have actually lived through the history being taught. Throughout the project, the students work with professional adults (a local newspaper editor, a filmmaker, and history teachers) to gain first hand knowledge through being paired with interviewing/ videotaping Holocaust survivors, liberators, and second/third generation, now living in the same communities as the students. The crux of the curriculum is the one-hour videotaped interview that each group of students conducts with their interviewee. These interviews are then edited down to 15-minute segments and combined into the documentary film, "Names, Not Numbers." In addition to the student-created documentary, the documentary maker/ instructor films students, teachers, and interviewees throughout the process in a mini-documentary entitled "Names, Not Numbers: A Movie in the Making."© To date, two hundred (200) students in grades 8 and 12 in five cities have successfully interviewed and videotaped 85 survivors, 2nd generation, and WWII veterans. For more information: www.namesnotnumbers.org. Tova Fish-Rosenberg can be contacted at: tova.rosenberg.gmail.com. To read an article by Gary Rosenblatt, editor of The Jewish Week about Names, Not Numbers – www.thejewishweek.com/editors_column/c52/Editorial__Opinion/Gary_Rosenblatt.html
FYI… The Institute of Art and Law in London, England, in conjunction with Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art, is offering a series of lectures that will examine the remedies that are being developed in response to demands for justice for Holocaust victims and their families. For more information contact the Institute of Art and Law: info@ial.uk.com or www.ial.uk.com/. Lectures will be held at Notre Dame Law Faculty, 1 Suffolk Street, London, starting at 6.30 pm. Fees. Topics and dates include:
November 5, 2008 – Mediation and the Role of Public Advisory Boards
November 19, 2008 – Redress in Comparable Cases: Other Holocaust-Related Assets
December 3, 2008 – Checking and tracking for Holocaust provenance
FYI… November 9, 2008 broadcast on PBS: God on Trial, a drama based on the often told but unconfirmed story that a group of Auschwitz survivors, their faith tested to the breaking point, convened a rabbinical court to put God on trial for abandoning his chosen people. For educators' convenience, the film will also stream at www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/ the week after broadcast.
FYI… PBS Broadcast of The Rape of Europa, the story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during World War II, is scheduled for November 24, 2008 at 9 p.m. EST
FYI… 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 through March 16, 2009. For more information, a complete schedule and locations, see www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/092408_031609sem.pdf
FYI… To hear the Wisconsin Public Radio show on Irena Sendler: www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archives.cfm then click on Monday Oct. 27.
FYI… National Public Radio, NPR, ran a story written by a daughter of survivors, Kim Masters, about her mother’s survival due to the aid of Nicholas Winton: Finding A Hero Amid Fading Memories www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95111848 (Written and audio)
 
FYI...  Articles in the news...
Holocaust survivors await compensation
www.myheraldnews.com/view.html?type=stories&action=detail&sub_id=45670
Survivors cling to memories, sense of loss
www.myheraldnews.com/view.html?type=stories&action=detail&sub_id=45670
New Yad Vashem books teach Holocaust to haredim
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1225036822701
A TEARFUL REUNION FOR NAZI SURVIVORS
City of ghosts: Is Berlin finally a fitting place for Jews to visit?
Germany presents Israel Holocaust-era directory
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/23/germany-presents-israel-holocaust-era-directory/
Yad Vashem to receive directory of Nazi-era German Jews
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1222017598172
German town nixes Kristallnacht ceremony
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110844.html
Dumped items may be from Kristallnacht
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110829.html
Berlin memorial defaced with swastika
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110924.html
Eichmann still speaks
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1222017603799
German on trial for Nazi massacre
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110873.html
Judge upholds order to revoke citizenship
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110905.html
Nazi collaborator loses Canadian citizenship appeal
www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=0b190284-7f3d-4c86-9378-a593b26e745a
Vienna student uncovers alleged Nazi criminal
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110836.html
Le Pen takes stand in Paris appeal
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110945.html
Romania opens Shoah institute, vows to expand education
www.roembus.org/english/news/international_media/2005/October/11Oct_AP_Romania%20opens%20Shoah%20institute.htm
Queen to meet 'Britain's Schindler' in second stage of tour
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/3245747/Queen-to-meet-Britains-Schindler-in-second-stage-of-tour.html
Yukiko Sugihara, hero diplomat's wife, dies
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110891.html
Editor's Notes: Hardman's humanity (Bergen-Belsen)
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1222017555428
How the most vital history lesson of all faces axe
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/How-the-most-vital-history.4558610.jp
Faces from a hell that should be seen
Auschwitz visits must continue
Setting The Record Straight On Polish-Jewish Relations
Orillia doctors nominate Holocaust survivor for her message of peace
Nobel Peace Prize winner speaks at ISU in front of packed house
From starvation in Auschwitz to pomegranates in Kfar Haroeh
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1222017416319
Construction begins on L.A. Holocaust museum
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110771.html
Shoah center gets go-ahead Regents OK anti-genocide facility for Towson U.
www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=984131311&SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&S=1
Illinois foundation acquires Holocaust letter exhibit
Award-Winning Holocaust Postal Collection Acquired By Ill. Foundation
Holocaust Survivor Teaches Life Lesson to MC Students
A friend in deed
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1220802296358
The lessons of Munich
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1222017417888
Railroad tracks from Poland will be part of Stockton Holocaust center
When Alternate Theories Don’t Make For A Good Curriculum
The Holocaust, Tarantino-style: Jews scalping Nazis
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1027043.html
Tough Jews
http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/2008/10/23/1891/tough-jews/
Schools expert invited from US
Anne Frank diary resonates with Cambodians
New Zealand university removes neo-Nazi thesis
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110691.html
When no words suffice
'A Giant Among Men'
Suit vs. made-up Shoah memoirist is tossed
http://jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110735.html
'Hitler is dead. We won' Woman's perceptive memoir about life in Shoah
Neo-Nazi attack at Jewish theater prompts renewed fears in Hungary
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20081007hungaryattack102008.html
Iran’s Political Motivation For Ridiculing the Holocaust Again
'Only research can determine Pius XII image'
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1222017574500
Holocaust museum urges Vatican archives
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110866.html
Sacred Heart hosts Holocaust exhibit Special to the Ledger
Collective effort by translators helps bring early Holocaust memoir into English
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/200808280827bialystok.html
Schindler Jew dies in Melbourne
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110781.html
Television station cancels Hitler's 'favorite dish'
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110903.html
Photos in fifth dimension
www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/10/05/photos_in_fifth_dimension/?page=2
Shoah Foundation benefit salutes Douglas
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110889.html
Syrian haven for killers, then and now
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1225199599428
Jerusalem tolerance museum gets go-ahead
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110943.html
FYI… The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center (HDEC) announces its national annual Writing and Visual Arts Contest entitled The Holocaust: Never Again. The contest is open to students in grades 4 – 12 and colleges and universities. The overall winner of the contest will be sent to Washington, D. C. to attend the Days of Remembrance (Yom Hashoah) commemoration and will also visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Winners in each division will receive a $250 United States Savings Bond. This contest will encourage students to reflect on the universal lessons of the Holocaust. Entries may be poetry, essays (no research papers), music, film, or any art media.

Note: The HDEC holds 10 – 12 Student Awareness Days each school year. The next programs will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on November 6, December 3, and December 4, 2008 at the David Posnak Jewish Community Center, 5850 S. Pine Island Blvd., Davie, Florida. For more information contact Merle R. Saferstein, Director of Educational Outreach at merle@hdec.org or 954-929-5690 or see www.hdec.org.
FYI… The Virginia Holocaust Museum announces a new exhibition that depicts the story of Gross-Breesen, an agricultural training farm for Jewish youth that was established on the Germany/Poland border before the outbreak of World War II. For more: www.wildacresrealty.com/grossbreesen/history.html
FYI… Still searching: I am looking for anyone who may have been in the barrack in Bergen-Belsen in the Star Camp, and may have witnessed or took part in a secret Bar Mitzvah ceremony with Joachim Joseph (Yoya), conducted by Rabbi Simon Dasberg in April, 1944.

(A couple of details that might help someone remember) The ceremony happened pre-dawn, with blankets on the windows. At one point the ceremony was interrupted with a knock on the door. It was the young boy’s mother who was smuggled to the barrack by the Rabbi to witness the ceremony. But others in the barrack would not allow her in, so she had to watch from out side. The ceremony lasted about 10 minutes. For much more information: www.weststreetproductions.com/torah.html

FYI… Largest Jewish genealogy website launched: 'Ancestry.com' contains the world's largest online collection of Jewish family history records. Read more...
FYI… The Galicia Jewish Museum October newsletter is now available online: www.galiciajewishmuseum.org. The newsletter covers events of Jewish interest across southern Poland and beyond, and provides a unique insight into contemporary Jewish life in Poland.
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