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Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
December 2008
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Dear Members and Friends,
We would like to formally welcome all the new GSI members we met at the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust (WFJCSH) annual conference in Alexandria, Virginia. During the conference we were briefly interrupted by a fire alarm. Esther Finder promised the people in the speaker training seminar that she would provide this link to a list of 36 questions (and answers) about the Holocaust that is posted on the Museum of Tolerance website: http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=394663.

Congratulations to the Facebook group Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors as it approaches 1000 members! For more information about this group please contact AaronJBiterman@aol.com. We also extend a warm welcome to the grandchildren of survivors (3Gs) who are coming to us thanks to this Facebook group.

We have welcomed hundreds of new members this past month and hope you will forward our newsletter to your families / friends and help us continue to grow.

Several people have approached us seeking our help with starting a new group (2G, 3G or intergenerational) in their local communities. If you would like to start a group we suggest that you pick a place and time for a first meeting and we shall advertise it for you. When people meet in person they can decide what their interests and goals are. You do not need to promise to be the leader of the group: the group can find its own way.

We wish you the greetings of the season and all the best for 2009,

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 23^rd 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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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The situation in Lithuania is still ambiguous. In our October newsletter we wrote:
There are Jews whose wartime actions have been questioned re: partisan activity in Lithuania and whether or not these activities were war crimes. For background information: Reopening Lithuania's old wounds. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/programmes/crossing_continents/7508375.stm, Lithuania drops probe of ex-partisan www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110557.html and Lithuania drops war crimes case. We encourage each of you to please take a few moments and write to the Lithuanian Ambassador in your country and ask that all charges / suspicions against all these Holocaust survivors be dropped. In the US the temporary address of the Embassy is: Ambassador Bruzga, 2300 Clarendon Blvd., Suite 302, Arlington, VA 22201 and the fax number is: (202) 328-0466. Please write as soon as you can. Individual letters are preferable to group letters or petitions. Your letter does not need to be long – just speak from your heart.

If you are not inclined to write a letter but wish to do something to help, you can Join the Wiesenthal Center’s campaign to Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus. For more information: www.wiesenthal.com

To access the Caring for Aging Survivors: A Practice Manual online: www.baycrest.org/holocaustsurvivors (courtesy of the Baycrest Centre in Canada)

From Yad Vashem: New Online Exhibitions My Homeland-Holocaust Survivors in Israel: You can now visit this new online exhibition honoring the contributions of Holocaust Survivors to the establishment and development of the State of Israel. You can even take a virtual tour of the live exhibit in Yad Vashem’s Exhibitions Pavilion, joining the curator for a short gallery talk. My Homeland, which opened at Yad Vashem in honor of Israel’s 60th year, highlights the contributions of graphic artists, performing artists, authors, photographers, fashion designers, athletes and more to the State of Israel, telling the story of Holocaust survivors in the shaping of Israeli identity.

It Came from Within…70 Years Since Kristallnacht: This new exhibition on www.yadvashem.org offers an informative narrative of the events surrounding Kristallnacht. You can see video testimonies of survivors, archival photographs and Pages of Testimony, all offering first-hand information and insights into the destruction and suffering inflicted on the Jews 70 years ago.

From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum:
The application for the 2009 Museum Teacher Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is now available online: www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/prodev/teacherfellowship.

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have partnered to present a new online video resource for educators that commemorates the 70^th Anniversary of Kristallnacht: The 1938 November Pogrom. Watch or Download Now.

Also, from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute: New Testimony Collections, New Educational Resource: Czech-language and Hungarian-language classroom lessons available online.

The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, an educational NGO based in New York with the mission to honor, preserve and divulge the legacies of the Rescuers of the Holocaust, is looking for any information regarding Austrian citizens that saved persecuted people during World War II. Information regarding relatives of the Rescuers is also welcome.

Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center To Open April 19, 2009 For more information: www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/press_office/189.php. Also, a new website has been launched: www.ilholocaustmuseum.org

March of the Living 2009 – The International Adult Delegation
Dates: April 20-30, 2009
The International Adult delegation was formed in 2006 to bring together adult participants of all ages, from different countries, backgrounds and history. In the past the group included participants from South Africa, Australia, the USA, the UK, Mexico, Canada and Israel. The bus is a microcosm of the world; participants learn about the Holocaust, share their own experiences and stories, gain knowledge from each other’s background and take home with them a rich and different understanding of the subject. The participants are not only there to learn about the Holocaust, but also are taking part in a journey of reflection about different cultures and societies, and the role of each individual. The journey encourages individuals to take the lessons of the Holocaust and transfer them to actions when they go back to their countries.

Group Leaders and Scholars: Contact person in the US: Dr. William Shulman, President, Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO). Poland and Israel leader and co-coordinator, Pauline Rockman, President, Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Center, Melbourne, Australia. Poland scholars and educators: Tali Nates, Director, Johannesburg Holocaust Centre, South Africa; Tracey Peterson, Director of education, Cape Town Holocaust Centre, South Africa. For more details contact: rbshulman@worldnet.att.net and motl@motlmail.org.

Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) Backs Holocaust Survivors Call for Mormons to End Proxy Baptisms: Protests by the SWC stopped the posthumous baptism of Simon Wiesenthal, but other Holocaust victims including Anne Frank were posthumously baptized... Click here to learn of the Kristallnacht Day protest led by Holocaust Survivor Ernest Michel

The International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, Germany, has its latest newsletter online: www.its-arolsen.org/index.php?L=1&id=144. We congratulate the ITS on the very successful first year that the archive of the International Tracing Service (ITS) has been opened up to researchers.

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

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 60^th 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

Perpetrator Research in a Global Context: January 27-29, 2009; Berlin, Germany
For more information: www.bpb.de/veranstaltungen/DUDBX8,0,0,Perpetrator_Research_in_a_Global_Context_T%E4terforschung_im_globalen_Kontext.html.

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 39^th 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

The Legacy of the Holocaust Family and the Holocaust Conference: May 21-23, 2009; Krakow, Poland
For information: www.galiciajewishmuseum.org

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS

The Jewish Question in French Philosophy after the Holocaust: December 7, 2008; UCLA Campus, 314 Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA • 10:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.
For full PDF schedule of the event click HERE. Free and open to the public but advanced registration is required: cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu

The Holocaust and Human Behavior: A Two-Day Introductory Workshop: December 12-13, 2009 Location: TBA (Manhattan); 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
This workshop will introduce educators to Facing History’s methodology and resources through our core case study, Holocaust and Human Behavior. Fees. Space is limited and not guaranteed by application. For more information and to apply for the workshop: HHBIntro

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

Annual International Seminars at Yad Vashem
Teaching the Shoah and Antisemitism: Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel; Winter: January 4 - 22, 2009; Summer: July 19 to August 6, 2009
English-speaking educators will explore critical questions and have the opportunity to discuss teaching the Holocaust with colleagues from all over the world. Click here for more information and to register.

2009 Holocaust & Jewish Resistance Teachers Program A summer study program in Poland and Israel for U.S. secondary school teachers: July 5 – 23, 2009
Applications due April 1, 2009. For the application Download file in PDF format or in Word format. For more: ww.jewishlaborcommittee.org/2008/11/2009_holocaust_jewish_resistan.html

UPCOMING EVENTS

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 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. Sala Garncarz saved the items from the time she entered a Nazi labor camp in 1940 until her liberation in 1945. For more: 210/225-4728.

Now - December, 2008 – Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, Poland: Exhibits: Fighting for Dignity: Jewish Resistance in Kraków examines the little-known aspects of the Jewish resistance movement in Kraków during the Second World War. Also, Polish Heroes: Those Who Rescued Jews: A photographic tribute to the Polish recipients of the Righteous Among the Nations award. For more information: www.galiciajewishmuseum.org

Now – December 31, 2008 – Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th Street, New York, NY: Presented by Leo Baeck Institute: Fighting for the Fatherland: The Patriotism of Jews in WWI. World War I opened a door for the destruction of European Jewry only two decades later, yet at the beginning of that war, German and Austrian Jews were among the first to show their patriotism. This exhibition of photos, letters, artwork, etc., will show the extent to which Jewish citizens fought for the Fatherland. www.cjh.org/programs/exhibitions.php?action=show&id=71

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 – December 31, 2008 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX: Exhibit: Bearing Witness: A Community Remembers. Authentic film footage, artifacts, photographs and documents show life in pre-war Europe, the Nazi move toward the “Final Solution” and life after the Holocaust. The exhibit includes a very rare and poignant collection of children’s shoes recovered from the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland. The Museum’s newest permanent exhibit is an authentic World War II rail car of the type used to carry millions of people to their deaths. For more: www.hmh.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. For more: info@szyk.org

Now – January 4, 2009 – Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th Street, New York, NY: The American Jewish Historical Society Presents: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors, 1945-1953. Among the first to encounter European Jews who survived the Nazis' systematic attempt to destroy them, Jewish chaplains did what they could to help the survivors rebuild their lives. www.cjh.org/programs/exhibitions.php?action=show&id=64
To view online exhibition: www.ajhs.org/publications/chaplains/index.cfm

Now – January 11, 2009 – Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI: US Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit:Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings. For more information: www.ushmm.org.

Now – January 15, 2009 – University Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria: Exhibit: Erwin Piscator: Political Theater in Exile. Erwin Piscator (1893 – 1966), one of the most influential theatre directors and producers of the 20^th Century, was a pioneer of the epic theatre in Berlin in the 1920’s. Forced into exile by the Nazis, he founded the Dramatic Workshop at the New School in New York City and formed an entire generation of American actors. For more: www.elysiumbtc.org

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 -February 16, 2009 – Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY: Created by the Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris: The Shooting of Jews in Ukraine: Holocaust By Bullets. Between 1941 and 1944, almost 1.5 million Jews were murdered in the Soviet Union by mobile killing units consisting of German SS, army, police, and local collaborators. This exhibition presents the evidence, both physical and testimonial, gathered by Father Patrick Desbois and his team from Yahad-In Unum. For more: www.mjhnyc.org/index.htm

Now - February 22, 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, based on their story. For more: www.flholocaustmuseum.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- March 22, 2009 – Mémorial de la Shoah, 17 rue Geoffroy–l’Asnier, Paris, France: Exhibition and a series of lectures, films and readings aboutKristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, commemorating the 70th anniversary of this pogrom, which took place in the night of November 9-10, 1938. The exhibit includes about 200 archival photographs, original artifacts and documents from numerous institutions in France and abroad. For more information: www.memorialdelashoah.org or contact@memorialdelashoah.org

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

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 2, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Am Shalom, 840 Vernon Avenue, Glencoe, IL: Program: Refuge Denied: The Voyage of the St. Louis featuring Scott Miller, Director of Curatorial Affairs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. For more: www.ushmm.org. RSVP requested: 847-604-1924

December 3, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, IL: Program: Refuge Denied: The Voyage of the St. Louis featuring Scott Miller, Director of Curatorial Affairs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. For more: www.ushmm.org. RSVP requested: 847-604-1924

December 3, 2008, 6:30 p.m. – Notre Dame Law Faculty, 1 Suffolk Street, London, England: Part of a series of lectures examining the remedies being developed in response to demands for justice for Holocaust victims and their families: Checking and tracking for Holocaust provenance. Fees. For more information contact the Institute of Art and Law: info@ial.uk.com or www.ial.uk.com/.

December 3, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – Middle School 4, 107 Bright Street, Jersey City, NJ: Film, Panel, Discussion: Holocaust Study and European Tour in the Jersey City Schools. For more information: www.HudsonJewish.org

December 4, 2008, 7:30 p.m. – The Broad Stage at Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA: California premiere of For a Look or a Touch, a theatrical song cycle based on the true story of two gay teenage lovers arrested and torn apart by the Nazis. Screening of excerpts from the documentary Paragraph 175, prior to the concert plus Meet-the-Composer talk with classical music critic Jim Svejda at 6:45 p.m. The program includes works by acclaimed contemporary Israeli composer Betty Olivero; and by Erwin Schulhoff and Robert Dauber, both of whom died in concentration camps. Fees. For information and tickets: (310) 434-3200, www.thebroadstage.com

December 7, 2008, 11:00 a.m. – Mizner Court south party room, Boca Raton, FL: NEXTGENERATIONS Bagels & Books: Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay: a compelling portrait of France under occupation. Facilitated by Greta Brewer. Fees. For more: ndershaw@yahoo.com or judihng@yahoo.com

December 7, 2008, 5:00 p.m. – YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY: The Sidney Krum Annual Concert - Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company: Up Close and Personal. Founder and Artistic Director Carolyn Dorfman, a child of Holocaust survivors, presents the Legacy Project, a body of work honoring her Eastern European roots and Jewish Legacy. For more: www.cddc.info. For tickets, call (212) 868-4444,or go to www.smarttix.com

December 10, 2008 - February 27, 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/museum/exhibit/traveling/details/index.php?type=current&content=varian_fry

December 10, 2008, 2:30 p.m. – JCC of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD: Program: Growing Up in the Shadow of the Holocaust with guest speaker Esther Finder. For more information: gsi@genshoah.org.

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, 7:30 p.m. – BJE Community Library, San Francisco, CA: Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village: Reading and talk by Mimi Schwartz who grew up hearing stories of her father’s village in the Black Forest, where “before Hitler, everyone got along.” Schwartz interviewed current and former residents, Jews and Christians, to discuss how good neighbors negotiated decency before and during Nazi times. For more, call 415 567-3327.

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 10:00 a.m. – Weinberg Jewish Community Campus, 1301Springdale Rd, Cherry Hill, NJ: Catskill Puppets production: The Town that Fought Hate. For reservations, call 856 751 9500 ext 249. For more: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/121108goodwin.pdf

December 11, 2008, 6:30 p.m. – Holocaust Center of Northern California, San Francisco, CA: Film screening: Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah (The Strength) Vienna, one of Europe's biggest athletic clubs, shut down by the Nazis after the Anschluss in 1938. Sixty-five years later, director Yaron Zilberman meets the members of the women’s swim team in their homes around the world, and arranges for them to have a reunion in their old swimming pool in Vienna. Free but RSVP required: (415) 777-9060 x207 or rsvp@hcnc.org

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 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 13, 2008, 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. – private home*, Los Angeles, CA *RSVP for address: Second Generation of Los Angeles invites all its 30^th annual Hanukkah Celebration – a musical affair. Fees. For more information and to RSVP (by December 5th): sodawater52@gmail.com

December 14, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – Walsh Library, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ: The Sister Rose Thering Endowment annual colloquium presents two exhibits: Silent Witnesses: Civilian Camp Money of WW II and The Nazi Scourge: Postal Evidence of the Holocaust and the Devastation of Europe, sponsored by the Florence and Laurence Spungen family foundation. Danny Spungen, Professor Steve Feller and his daughter Ray, co-authors of Silent Witnesses, will speak. Reception to follow. For information / to RSVP: 973 761-9006 or zirlmari@shu.edu.

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 16, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – BJE Community Library, San Francisco, CA: Screening and discussion on Italian films with Jonathan Schwartz and Howard Freedman: Primo: A filmed performance of Anthony Sher’s one-man show, adapted from Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man, recounting the experience of Auschwitz using Levi’s wrenching, understated prose. For more: Film Class: Jews in Italy

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

December 29, 2007, 7:00 p.m. – Center for Jewish History, entrance at 15 W. 16 St. (between 5th and 6th Aves.), New York, NY: Guest speaker: (2G) French psychoanalyst Max Kohn: What is Jewish Humor? Exploring Wit and Humor in Freud. For more information: 212-294-6138 or nkahn@yivo.cjh.org. For tickets: 212-868-4444 or smarttix.com

January 4, 2008, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. (19:00-21:00) – Home of Descendants of Vilna, 30 Shderot Yehudit, Tel Aviv, Israel: Program: Songs of the Shoah in Yiddish. Fees. For more information: dorot_hemshech@walla.com, or visit the website www1.yadvashem.org/heb_site/heb_remembrance/dor/home_dor.html

January 8, 2009, 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 11, 2008, 2:30 p.m. – Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, New York, NY: The Legacy Project: Echoes with daughters of Holocaust survivors Carolyn Dorfman and Bente Kahan: Two artists, two continents, one legacy – an afternoon of dance, theater, and live music. For information and tickets: (646) 437-4202, or visit www.mjhnyc.org

January 21, 2009 - March 4, 2009 – The Art Association, Jackson, WY: US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition: Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings. For more information: www.ushmm.org.

January 26, 2009 - March 24, 2009 – United Nations Headquarters, Visitor's Lobby East 46th Street & First Avenue, New York, NY: US Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. For more information: www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/traveling/details/index.php?type=current&content=deadly_medicine

January 27, 2009, 7.30 p.m. – Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street (between Fifth and Madison Avenues), New York, NY: Concert in remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust – Found Objects: A Musical-Literary Expedition into the Lahr von Leitis Archive. All of the featured composers and writers were persecuted by Hitler’s regime; most of them were able to escape and found exile in the United States. For more: www.elysiumbtc.org

Jan. 27, 2009, 7:30 p.m. – Morris Cultural Arts Center, Houston Baptist University, 7502 Fondren Road, Houston, TX: Program: From Czechoslovak Immigrant to U.S. Secretary of State: Remarks by the Honorable Madeleine K. Albright. Free. Advanced registration required. Contact Holocaust Museum Houston: www.hmh.org/register.asp

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

FYI: For your information

FYI… United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Statement on Pope Pius XII Records:
www.ushmm.org/museum/press/archives/detail.php?category=07-general&content=2008-10-22
FYI… The Shoah Memorial, Paris: Understanding the past to illuminate the future
In addition to the permanent and temporary exhibitions, this memorial has three places of remembrance: the Wall of Names where the names of 76,000 Jewish men, women and children deported from France are engraved; the Wall of the Righteous which bears the names of 2,693 men and women who risked their own lives to save Jews fleeing persecution in France; the Crypt, where the ashes of victims from Auschwitz and the Warsaw Ghetto were laid to rest. Archives and audiovisual material may be viewed at The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation and its reading room along with the Multimedia Learning Center. The Memorial also features pedagogical spaces where workshops for children, adults and teachers are organized. A website offers a vast store of online documentation and a space specially designed for children aged 8 to 12 called 'Sarah's Attic'. For more: contact@memorialdelashoah.org, www.memorialdelashoah.org
FYI… Call for Spirit of Anne Frank Awards nominations.
Categories: Outstanding Scholarship, Educator, and Citizen Awards. For the application: www.annefrank.com and click on Spirit of Anne Frank Awards. The application deadline is January 15, 2009.
FYI… Inheritance airs on Wednesday, December 10 at 9 p.m. (90 minutes)
Imagine watching Schindler's List and knowing the sadistic Nazi camp commandant was your father. Inheritance is the story of Monika Hertwig, the daughter of mass murderer Amon Goeth. Hertwig has spent her life in the shadow of her father's sins, trying to come to terms with her "inheritance." She seeks out Helen Jonas, who was enslaved by Goeth and who is one of the few living eyewitnesses to his unspeakable brutality. To check local TV listing in the US: www.pbs.org/pov/tvschedule.php.
FYI… Holocaust Study Tour to Poland and the Czech Republic: June 14 – 22, 2009. For more information: www.jewishhistorystudytours.com/NextGeneration
FYI… Holocaust Survivor Thomas Buergenthal is one of the recipients of the 2008 Gruber Justice Prize. For more information: /www.gruberprizes.org/GruberPrizes/Justice_LaureateOverview.php?awardid=46
FYI… Child survivors who were in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany! I am doing research on the "International D.P. Children's Center Kloster Indersdorf" 1945 to 1948 and asking child survivors to visit this place again and / or to contribute to the research on this DP children's center. I have already found more than 40 survivors who were in Kloster Indersdorf after the war. Last summer there was a successful reunion of child survivors: twelve survivors met each other again and talked to the students who have their classrooms in the same building today. Please contact me andlauer@onlinehome.de
FYI... Articles in the news...

Battle for Holocaust Assets Roils Israel http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122645046262819241.html
Director of Company for Restitution: Premium TA neighborhood built on Holocaust victims' land www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1035962.html
'Treasury acted as stealthy thieves in handling of Holocaust victims' property' www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1035430.html
Large bloc, big disgrace www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1036471&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4
David Project head may inherit Holocaust assets www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1226404793635
The morally complex saga of the Jewish books looted during the Holocaust raises the question of whether the State of Israel is their exclusive owner. www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1028322.html
Nazi-looted painting returned http://jta.org/news/article/2008/11/25/1001195/nazi-looted-painting-returned
Justice for Holocaust Survivors www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/787855.html
Metro Views: Back to context www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1226404748829
Holocaust Survivors Seek Congress Help in Court
Lacking funds in Poland http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dX2eba8ZKHcYRd2%2FlfOs%2FMStnAhhgPCq
The night the Nazis came for my father: One survivor who fled to Britain recalls Kristallnacht, the start of Hitler's genocidal war www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082206/The-night-Nazis-came-father-One-survivor-fled-Britain-recalls-Kristallnacht-start-Hitlers-genocidal-war.html
Lights on as Jewish world remembers Kristallnacht www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1225910077628
Kristallnacht remembrances visit today's concerns http://jta.org/news/article/2008/11/10/1000875/kristallnacht-remembrances-visit-todays-concerns
Kristallnacht provides sub-theme to anti-Semitism project http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mzc8Cc%2FxsKMWRcAS1VtlGjErf1BaXE1
Remembering Kristallnacht http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dT8W%2B1bWV%2B4WRcAS1VtlGjErf1BaXE1j
Survivors, Artists, Musician Mark 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht at CSE Annual Week of Holocaust Remembrance www.nj.com/morristown/cse/index.ssf/2008/11/survivors_artists_musician_mar.html
'Anti-Semitism must never be given an opportunity in Europe again,' says German chancellor www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1035674.html
German-born pope says he still feels pain of 'Kristallnacht'
Coming of age in 1938 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1225910048907
Why can’t we just remember Kristallnacht? David Hirsh
The sound of silence www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1225910043218
Music and mourning: Concert marks Kristallnacht [see also comment posted below] www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/nov/09/music-and-mourning-concert-marks-kristallnacht/
Teens spellbound by Holocaust survivor
Forest Hills man speaks of life in Germany under Nazis
St. John’s University Remembers The Holocaust With Tribute On Queens Campus
Rabbi Wein www.rabbiwein.com/Jerusalem-Post/2008/11/369.html?print=1
The Canary in the Mine www.rabbiwein.com/Jerusalem-Post/2008/11/375.html?print=1
Anatomy of the Ukrainian genocide www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1226404787087
Jews slam Germany for hosting Khatami
A coalition of Jews is denouncing the Mormon Church for posthumously baptizing victims of Nazi concentration camps. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QODKFSdDVNyJruLgHKQb%2FtCRmH5gj8e7
Survivors say Mormons reneging on 1995 baptism pledge http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1T9LXlezARkCN0kCExskR4CaRkyWo6UT
UK: Every school to get Holocaust specialist under anti-racism initiative www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article5106164.ece
MP welcomes funding for holocaust education
Charles marks Jewish child rescue http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7744447.stm
Prince Charles marks Kindertransport anniversary http://jta.org/news/article/2008/11/24/1001176/prince-charles-marks-kindertransport-anniversary
Representing the Holocaust http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/21844/
Teachers to be questioned on Shoah lessons http://www.thejc.com/articles/teachers-be-questioned-shoah-lessons
Minister Kenney visits Babyn Yar holocaust site
Czech education projects earn EU awards
Building a Place to Remember
Holocaust exhibit at Camden County College Rohrer center
Belgian Prime Minister addresses European Jewish Congress event
Another Tack: Pius's pious pretension www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1225910051551
After meeting the pope Thursday, Jewish leaders said the beatification of Nazi-era Pope Pius XII likely would be postponed. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=m07Q7z6ncwqpt1SZ%2FJrxuUYWZggnaccv
Dr Rowan William and faith leaders to visit death camp
Ordained By The Shoah www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c39_a13912/News/International.html
Goering's niece making amends http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fOj8HNIECuVzQ0OLoF4T2UYWZggnaccv
Ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel are slowly beginning to talk about the most catastrophic episode in their history with outsiders
Teachers get help from council on teaching about the Holocaust
Spring Mills man’s rare mail collection helped silence Holocaust ...
Holocaust hits home for one young mother www.northjersey.com/news/religion/Holocaust_hits_home_for_one_young_mother.html
Visions of the Holocaust, and of an Artist’s Joys
Chief Rabbi: Auschwitz so "evil" for years I could not visit
Ignorance of Holocaust scary
Rare collection of Holocaust artifacts coming to Billings
WW II vet held in Nazi slave camp breaks silence: 'Let it be known' www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/11/11/acevedo.pow/index.html
UWO prof preserving survivors' stories http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2008/11/03/7285746-sun.html
Irena Sendler's legacy www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1225910049663
Holocaust Heroine Recalled by Two She Saved http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/24/1438429.aspx
SURVIVOR'S SAVIOR
Are we reliving the 1930s? www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1225910043236
Cultural takes on the Holocaust http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2008/11/10/1000868/cu
Seventy Australian trees will be planted at Yad Vashem to honor a little-known protest by Aborigines against the Nazis in 1938 http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4QnIvoXWtvUVPwVwuezbINCRmH5gj8e7
A litany of World War Two saints www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1225715341149
The son of a Jewish refugee was elected the prime minister of New Zealand. http://jta.org/news/article/2008/11/09/1000846/son-of-jewish-refugee-is-kiwi-pm
Tucson, AZ - Lost Families of Holocaust May Be Reunited and Remains Identified by DNA Lab
Lyndon Johnson's actions to rescue hundreds of endangered Jews during the Holocaust. http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/jewishsociety/LBJ_A_Friend_in_Deed.asp
Will biased FDR biographers mislead Obama? www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1226404835215
Analyzing Lithuanian Anti-Semitism www.jewishcurrents.org/2008_nov_anti.htm
Holocaust denier David Irving was asked to be a contestant on a British reality TV program. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=K3nFOQiQFHKS%2FJcX0N8RMp%2BlLzYG3uiI
An Australian revisionist historian won the first round of a legal battle to avoid extradition to Germany. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vGqEr0Vr1Vl%2Bz93DInrumwoVEo37MQ0W
San Francisco's Holocaust memorial was vandalized for the second time in two months. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HrgzOYAgPPqWhlHDaQtYJlfdRI4lACyY
Police said three neo-Nazis attacked a Jewish man in Prague. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZcUSybzrLLiWhlHDaQtYJlfdRI4lACyY
Hopkins president-elect praised for boundless energy, can-do attitude
Student project in Melbourne school glorifies Hitler
Fighting Hate In Berlin’s Turkish Quarter www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c39_a14130/News/International.html
Reese Schonfeld, Co- Founder of CNN Emceed Dinner Honoring Volunteers visiting Holocaust Survivors www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=13760
Holocaust production stepping to Broadway www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081103/FREE/811039983/1050/newsletter01
FYI… To see a short video on Chief Rabbi Lau
FYI… To hear the Wisconsin Public Radio show on Irena Sendler:
www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archives.cfm then click on Monday Oct. 27.
FYI… To view a short film on the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny_ZDjtrlgw
FYI… The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center (HDEC) announced its national annual Writing and Visual Arts Contest entitled The Holocaust: Never Again, open to students in grades 4 – 12 and colleges and universities. 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 year. The next programs will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on December 3 and 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… CHAI launches a new Web Book
For the 60th Anniversary of Kristallnacht, we began an oral history documentation project that focused on the experiences of ten local German and Austrian survivors who escaped the Nazis. In 2001, CHAI published these stories in the anthology, Perilous Journeys. It has been used as a valuable classroom resource. At our 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht Program on Nov. 9th, we launched this web-site which will allow you to view Perilous Journeys on line together with filmed testimonies of the survivors: www.perilousjourneys.org/
FYI… These excerpts were specifically chosen by the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive to commemorate the 70^th Anniversary of Kristallnacht.
www.gratz.edu/Uploads/DocumentRepository/Tuttleman_Library/Holocaust_testimonies.pdf
FYI… for information on The Memory Project: Loss, Memory, History, Art:
www.memoryprojectproductions.com/The_Memory_Project/The_Memory_Project.html
FYI… For information on the Holocaust Shoe Project for Darfur:
www.templeisraelnc.com/
FYI… My name is Francesco Lotoro and I'm an Italian pianist and music researcher. I'm searching for 2 scores performed by the famous Jewish cabaret singer Paul O'Montis (deported to Sachsenhausen): KADDISH and GHETTO (both written before his deportation). If you have any information please contact me: francesco.lotoro@fastwebnet.it
FYI… Searching…
I am looking for relatives of my uncle Heinz Grunewald, born January 25, 1887. He was living in Stuttgart around 1923 when he married his wife Elsa, nee Kling (born Oct. 19, 1896 in Speyer). They had a son, Martin, born in Stuttgart Nov. 21, 1927. In 1939 the family moved to France and lived in Nimes until they were deported in September 1942. If you have any information about them please contact me gunther@dslextreme.com
FYI… Hatikvah was sung by Jews in Europe before the Shoah. For information on how an international rendition helped commemorate the 60^th anniversary of the State of Israel:
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=kQNkU3x7hvA
FYI… From 2G Max Kohn: You can listen to my Yiddish program in Melbourne, Australia on my website: www.maxkohn.com and on SBS Radio Yiddish: /www20.sbs.com.au/podcasting/index.php?action=feeddetails&feedid=16&catid=1
FYI… The following shows were recently aired on television: PBS presents ‘God on Trial’ in Auschwitz www.jewishjournal.com/television/article/pbs_presents_god_on_trial_in_auschwitz_20081106/

Escape from Auschwitz
www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/episode-home/escape-from-auschwitz

Poland Rediscovered: Krakow, Auschwitz and Warsaw
www.iptv.org/series.cfm/9038/rick_steves_europe/ep:310

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December 2008
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