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Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
December 2009
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Dear Members and Friends,
We would like to welcome those of you who are new to GSI. We have a large number of new members this month and we are happy to have you become part of our extended family.
The Upcoming Events section below contains information about the gathering of survivors of the SS St. Louis. There is also information about a survivor gathering in Las Vegas this month in the Conferences section.
Congratulations to The Generation After in Washington, DC on the occasion of its 30th anniversary. It should be noted that the idea for GSI came from the Board of this group. They had the foresight to see the potential of a brand new idea: an organization with no president or spokesperson dedicated to sharing Holocaust-related information and resources free of charge. See the coming events section below for information on their celebration.
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.
GSI has an “open” Facebook Group that anyone can join and invite others to join. Feel free to introduce yourself to your brothers and sisters in the survivor community and communicate directly with them without having to be cleared by a third party. Use the group to find old friends and relatives. Join us and meet new friends. Our page is visible to Facebook members at http://tinyurl.com/clhxsf. Joining Facebook is free and easy: www.facebook.com.
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RESTITUTION
The HSF-USA website has posted some recent documents that are of great importance to the American survivor community:
Eizenstat /Kennedy letter http://hsf-usa.org/Letter%20from%20Ambassadors27Oct09.pdf
Department of Justice (DOJ) Statement of Interest: http://hsf-usa.org/SOI27Oct09.pdf
DOJ brief opposing survivor suits http://hsf-usa.org/DOJ%20Supplemental%20Letter%20Brief%20FINAL%2027Oct09.pdf
For brief background information, see the full posts on the HSF homepage: http://hsf-usa.org
ANNOUNCEMENTS
From Yad Vashem
For more than 50 years, Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ & Heroes’ Remembrance Authority has been committed to four pillars of remembrance: commemoration, documentation, research and education.
As the Jewish people’s living memorial to the Holocaust, Yad Vashem safeguards the memory of the past and imparts its meaning for future generations, relying on about 120,500 testimonies in its Archives, including audio-visual/oral histories, diaries, memoirs, biographies and legal statements, while concurrently continuing to interview survivors throughout Israel.
With the pressing sense of “the hourglass goes and ceases” and the urgent need to consolidate against the rising tide of Holocaust denial by securing indisputable proof of the genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators, Yad Vashem’s Testimonies Collections Section of the Archives Division hopes to locate testimonies of Holocaust survivors, liberators and Righteous Gentiles from across the world.
Any assistance you can lend us in this matter will be highly valued. We would appreciate receiving duplicate sets of your audio, written and video testimony of Holocaust survivors, Hidden Children and liberators to be housed and made available at Yad Vashem. For more information contact: safira.rapoport@yadvashem.org.il
Also from Yad Vashem: First-ever Moroccan Educators’ Seminar A groundbreaking seminar for educators from Morocco brought 18 educators and opinion makers together for an intensive weeklong period of study at Yad Vashem. The group, hosted by the International School for Holocaust Studies, explored topics as diverse as the historical rise of antisemitism, pre-war Jewish life in Europe and North Africa, anti-Jewish Nazi policy and confronting Holocaust Denial. In addition, the participants learned how to access and utilize the extensive resources available on the Yad Vashem website to enhance their knowledge. “The Seminar was an historic event… where we acquired not only pedagogical tools for Holocaust education, but learned about the history of the Jewish nation and its suffering,” said one participant. The group left with essential educational resources for teaching about the Holocaust in Morocco and as a part of the supportive educational network of Yad Vashem’s International School, which is active in over 55 countries. www.yadvashem.org
The Yad Vashem newsletter is online: www1.yadvashem.org/newsletter/november2009/newsletter_november2009.html?WT.mc_ev=EmailOpen
The International Task Force for Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research website, www.holocausttaskforce.org is an important source of information on the work of the ITF and developments in the field. It contains information on activities in member states, education, remembrance and memorials, research and project funding, and news and events.
From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
The National Institute for Holocaust Education of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is pleased to announce that the USHMM Teacher Fellowship Program will resume in 2010-11, open to secondary school teachers and full-time faculty from community colleges. From July 11-16, 2010, the Museum will host up to 15 successful applicants in Washington, DC, to begin what has been a career and life-changing experience for nearly 250 secondary teachers since 1996. Those selected spend a week at the Museum working with staff historians, archivists, and educators and return the following summer for a three day follow up conference. The program is fully-funded through donations to the Museum, and includes travel expenses, teaching resources, and a generous stipend for books from the Museum Shop.
The Teacher Fellowship continues to impact the teaching of the Holocaust across the country and even around the world. On September 25, Teacher Fellow Matt Rozell of Hudson Falls, NY, was named ABC News Person of the Week for his project that reunited survivors with their liberators. In October ten Museum Teacher Fellows represented the United States as guests of the Polish government for a week-long educational exchange in Warsaw and Krakow. Teacher Fellow Cathleen Cadigan of Dallas TX was recently named one of 8 outstanding educators by the College Board. These dramatic stories are but the tip of the iceberg. Teacher Fellows continue to lead the Museum’s effort to ensure quality Holocaust education in America’s secondary schools through educational outreach in their regions.
I encourage you to apply to become a leader in Holocaust education. Information and a downloadable application for the Teacher Fellowship Program are available online. Please contact Peter Fredlake (pfredlake@ushmm.org, 202-314-0352) if you have any questions.
Also from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
As we approach the one year anniversary of the release of the recommendations from the Genocide Prevention Task Force Report, the Committee on Conscience at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is working with the Genocide Intervention Network on a new initiative to build support across the country for genocide prevention. From December 1-7, thousands of people will pledge to join the movement to prevent genocide. Add your name to the movement and encourage your family, friends and communities to get involved. Pledges can be signed and more information is available online at www.ipledge2protect.org.
Why is my pledge important? Improving how we prevent and respond to genocide begins with individuals joining together to build a different future. Your pledge is your commitment to be a part of this movement. By participating, you are joining over 30,000 pledges already made as part of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's new interactive installation, From Memory To Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide. Individual action matters. Together we can build a different future.
UPCOMING CONFERENCES- You are the Messengers to a Time I Will Not See:
A Conversation with Gerda Weissmann Klein Videoconference - December 1, 2009 * 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
- December 17, 2009 * 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET Supporting Your Students in their Service Learning Projects: Teacher Workshop Videoconference
- December - March: Student Service Learning Projects
- March 24, 2010 * 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Service Project Celebration: Student Sharing Videoconference Event. For more information / registration: www.magpi.net/programs/klein.html. For information: http://kleinfoundation.org/contact/
- Council of Holocaust Educators Seventh Annual Conference
Survivor Testimony: Bringing Voices
from the Past and the Present into the Classroom - December 3 - 4, 2009
- 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/12030409test.pdf
- Celebration of the Generations
Hanukkah Celebration of All the Generations - December 18 – 20, 2009
Venetian Palazzo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada - For more information: LNat2@aol.com
- 3rd Annual International Conference on Human Rights
Combating Hatred - January 29, 2010
Kean University, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ - For more information and registration: www.kean.edu/humanrightsconference
- 40th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches
- March 6 – 8, 2010
Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA - For information: www.sju.edu/academics/cas/resources/holocaust/ or e-mail asc@sju.edu
- AFTERMATH: Holocaust Survivors in Australia
- March 14 – 15, 2010
Monash University, Caulfield campus, Melbourne, Australia - For further information, please go to www.arts.monash.edu.au/acjc
- Bearing Witness: Memory, Representation, and Pedagogy
in the Post-Holocaust Age - April 12-13, 2010
Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA - For more information, e-mail pschweit@su.edu
- Children and War: Past and Present
- 30 September – 2 October 2010
University of Salzburg, Austria - Call for papers. Please send an abstract of 200-250 words, together with biographical background information of 50-100 words by 31 December 2009 to: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk
- Lessons and Legacies XI
- Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
November 4-7, 2010 - For more information: sbrown-fleming@ushmm.org, schilling@denison.edu, or hearl@sympatico.ca
- The Holocaust in the Soviet Union:
New Sources, New Perspective for Use in Teaching - January 4-8, 2010
- For information: university_programs@ushmm.org or learn more.
- In the Shadow of the Nazi Past;
Children of Perpetrators and of Survivors - February 18, 2009
FAU Center for Holocaust & Human Rights Education, Boca Raton, FL - For more: www.nextgenerations.org
- Now - December 3, 2009 – Quad Cinema, 34 W 13th St, New York, NY
- Four Seasons Lodge, a documentary about an inspiring group of Jewish Holocaust survivors who created a unique community in the Catskills, where they have spent the past 26 summers celebrating life together. Screenings daily, for show times and tickets visit: www.quadcinema.com/
- Now - December 5, 2009 – William Way LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia, PA
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945.
- Now – December 12, 2009 – Galería de Arte Arcimboldo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Exhibit: Embroidered onto the Skin of Memory by 2G artist Mirta Kupferminc. For more information: silvio@gitterarts.net
- Now – December 13, 2009 – Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York, NY
- Holocaust survivor Theodore Bikel performs in Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears. For tickets: www.folksbiene.org or call 646-312-5073.
- Now - December 13, 2009 – Petaluma Historical Museum, Petaluma, CA
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Schindler.
- Now - December 19, 2009 – Hebrew College’s Cutler Atrium, 160 Herrick Road. Newton, MA
- Exhibit: Artists Confront the Holocaust. For more: generationsafter@verizon.net
- Now - December 23, 2009 – International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, 34 E 67th Street, New York, NY
- Exhibit: art by sculptor Ann Froman including a piece honoring Raoul Wallenberg. For more: www.raoulwallenberg.net
- Now - December 28, 2009 – Rockland Holocaust Museum, 17 S. Madison Ave, Spring Valley, NY
- The One Soul Exhibition: When Humanity Fails, created in remembrance of the Holocaust and in recognition of the heroic American soldiers who liberated the survivors. For more information, please visit www.holocauststudies.org
- Now – December 31, 2009 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Sarah Wiernicki: Art for My Grandfather: the artist was inspired by her grandfather's life as a Polish resistance fighter and his subsequent experiences in the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald-Ohrdruf. For more: www.hmh.org
- Now - January 3, 2010 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Exhibit: A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People
A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People is an interactive experience that allows visitors to follow in John Paul II's footsteps from his childhood to his role as head of the world's largest church. For more: www.hmh.org
- Now - January 4, 2010 – Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY
- Exhibit: Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges: explores the challenges of life in the segregated South. For more information: www.mjhnyc.org/college/index.html
- Now - January 31, 2010 – Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County, 310 Mount Corner Dr, Freehold, NJ
- Multi Media Exhibit: A Journey to Life, presents the life experiences of local Holocaust survivors through documents, video and artifacts, and features a global perspective of genocide through historical and contemporary genocides, current areas of crisis and suggestions for individual activism. For more: www.holocaustbcc.org/, www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/110809013110journey.pdf
- Now - January, 2009 – Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, Poland
- Exhibitions: They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust, featuring the art of Mayer Kirshenblatt, recording Jewish life in a pre-war Polish town as seen through the eyes of an inquisitive boy. Also, Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photographs of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman photographs taken in eastern Poland (now Belarus) during WWII. For more: www.galiciajewishmuseum.org
- Now - February 1, 2010 – University of Louisville, Kornhauser Health Science Library, Louisville, KY
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race.
- Now - February 7, 2010 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Exhibit: Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews during the Holocaust, the heroic stories of Albanian Muslims who saved Jews - those of Albanian origin and refugees alike - from extermination during WWII despite great danger to themselves. For more: www.hmh.org.
- Now - February 14, 2010 – South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race.
- Now – April 25, 2010 – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
- Exhibit: Icons of Loss: Angels and the Warsaw Boy of Samuel Bak (Holocaust survivor). Opening reception on November 1st at 4:00 pm. For more information or to RSVP to the Opening, please contact Erin Blankenship at 727-820-0100, extension 271.
- Now - May 9, 2010 – Yeshiva University Museum, Center for Jewish History, 15 E. 16th St, New York, NY
- Letters of Conscience: Raphael Lemkin and the Quest to End Genocide. This exhibit focuses on the activities and legacy of the Polish-American Jewish lawyer who coined the term genocide working to protect the rights and survival of specific groups targeted for destruction. Original correspondence and documents serve as a stirring reminder of an individual's ability to better humanity and the future. www.cjh.org
- Now - June 30, 2010 – Hebrew Union College, 1 West 4th Street (between Broadway and Mercer St), New York, NY
- Susan Silas: Helmbrechts Walk, 1998-2003, a photographic retracing of a Nazi forced death march by a daughter of survivors. The images, contextualized by Silas’ commentary, are paired with news clips from the same day in 1998, connecting the past and the present. Photo ID required. For more: 212-824-2293: kmoscowitz@huc.edu, www.huc.edu/museum/ny
- Now - July 2, 2010, 2010 – Hebrew Union College, 1 West 4th Street (between Broadway and Mercer St), New York, NY
- Mirta Kupferminc: Wanderings, a post-Holocaust cosmos of memory, allegory, and symbolism. A daughter of survivors, Kupferminc's art expresses a legacy of trauma and dislocation and the regenerative human capacity for survival and renewal. Photo ID required. For more: 212-824-2293: kmoscowitz@huc.edu, www.huc.edu/museum/ny
- Now - July 26, 2010 – 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: www.hmh.org
- December 2, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm – Hunter College School of Social Work Auditorium, 129 E. 79th St., New York, NY
- Symposium: Holocaust Survivors: Stories of Resilience, a review of the results of a research study about forgiveness and resiliency among Holocaust Survivors, with talks by researchers and survivors. For more information, contact Raquel Romanick at rromanic@hunter.cuny.edu. Free, but pre-registration is required. Register online at www.eventbrite.com/event/459784227. CEU's available.
- December 2, 2009, 6:00 pm – Mortara Center for International Studies, 3600 N Street, NW, Washington, DC
- The Program for Jewish Civilization hosts the Herman Allen 'Hal' Israel (C'02) Endowed Lectureship in Jewish-Catholic Relations with Professor Deborah E. Lipstadt, who will discuss the state of relations in light of the Bishop Williamson Controversy. RSVP HERE
- December 2, 2009, 7:00 pm – Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY
- Book program - American Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide by Grigoris Balakian. Peter Balakian, translator and poet, presents the first English translation of his great uncle’s memoir. Fees. For more information: www.mjhnyc.org/safrahall
- December 3, 2009, 7:00 pm – Goodman Auditorium, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, Skokie, IL
- Women's Leadership Committee presents Bending Toward the Sun, A Mother Daughter Memoir, featuring Holocaust Survivor Rita Lurie and her daughter Leslie Gilbert-Lurie. This explores the complex relationship between survivors and their children and mothers and daughters. Tickets Required. For more: www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/home/1.php
- December 4, 2009, 7:30 pm – 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street, New York, NY
- 3G NY Shabbat dinner: Bernard Gotfryd will share his story and his book, Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales of the Holocaust. Copies are available by calling 1-800-537-5487; http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801863103&qty=1&source=2&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y. Fees. Register now: www.92y.org/shop/92Tri_event_detail.asp?productid=T-MM5SH07
- December 5, 2009, 2:00 pm – Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Seattle, WA
- The Music of Remembrance free Sparks of Glory concert-with-commentary Unconquered! For more information visit: www.musicofremembrance.org/
- December 5, 2009, 6:00 pm – DC JCC, Washington, DC
- Film: My Mother’s Courage (Mutter’s Courage*) preceded by The Legend of Mrs. Goldman and the Almighty God with guest Michael Verhoeven, Director / Recipient of the Washington Jewish Film Festival Visionary Awa rd. For information: www.wjff.org or 202-777-3231; for tickets -- www.boxofficetickets.com or 800-494-8497. *Subtitles.
- December 5, 2009, 7:00 pm – private home* in Los Angeles, CA
- Second Generation Los Angeles annual Hanukkah party. Fees. For more and to RSVP: KFire413@aol.com. *Address given to those who RSVP
- December 5, 2009, 9:30 pm – AFI Silver Theatre, Silver Spring, MD
- DC premiere: CYCLES Les Murs Porteurs, the story of a Holocaust survivor increasingly confusing past and present and her children who are “sandwiched” between generations. Subtitles. For more: www.wjff.org or 202-777-3231; tickets at www.boxofficetickets.com or 800-494-8497.
- December 6, 2009, 11:00 am – Mizner Court, South Party Room, SE 5th Ave, Boca Raton, FL
- Bagels & Books: The Book Thief with facilitator Greta Brewer, NEXT GENERATIONS VP of Education. www.nextgenerations.org
- December 6, 2009 1:00 - 3:00 pm – Goodman Auditorium, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center (IHMEC), Skokie, IL
- In Our Voices: Stories of Holocaust Survivors . Book Launch featuring IHMEC Survivor Writing Workshop members. Survivors will read from their works. For more: www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/home/1.php
- December 6, 2009, 2:00 pm – Beck Rooms, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
- Screening of The Children of Chabannes, the story of how residents of a small village in occupied France managed to save 400 Jewish refugee children from death by the Nazis. Guest speaker Norbert Bikales, one of the surviving children, will answer questions following the film. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome, but advance reservations are requested. Contact Marilyn Zirl at marilyn.zirl@shu.edu or (973) 761-9006.
- December 6, 2009, 2:00 pm – Congregation Tikvat Israel, Rockville, MD
- 30th Anniversary of The Generation After: an afternoon tea with the entire survivor community of the DC - Baltimore area. Special guest speaker: Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat discussing Prague and Beyond, what has happened since the Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague last June. Fees. For more: etfinder@juno.com.
- December 6, 2009, 2:30 pm – Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY
- FDR and the Jews: a discussion with Richard Breitman (Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1935-1945) and Deborah E. Lipstadt (Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust), moderated by Museum Director David G. Marwell, Ph.D. Fees. For more information: www.mjhnyc.org/safrahall
- December 7, 2009, 2:00 pm – 106 Goldenrod, Montgomery College, Germantown, MD
- The Holocaust: Insights into Experience and Survival with guest speaker Professor Esther Finder. For more: GSI@genshoah.org
- December 7, 2009, 6:00 pm – DC JCC, Washington, DC
- Film: Human Failure (Menschliches Versagen) with special guest Michael Verhoeven, Director. The film depicts the appropriation of assets from German Jews during the Third Reich by German tax officials and the bizarre competition that developed between bureaucrats as to how to organize the robbery of the Jews. For information: www.wjff.org or 202-777-3231; tickets at www.boxofficetickets.com or 800-494-8497.
- December 7, 2009, 7:00 pm – Hawkins Hall #305, Towson University, Baltimore, MD
- The Phenomena of Holocaust Denial and the new Anti-Semitism: The Challenge for Educators with guest speaker Ephraim Kaye, Director of International Seminars for Educators, Yad Vashem, Israel. To get information on parking and to RSVP: lchandler@baltjc.org.
- December 8, 2009 7:00 pm – Wiener Library, London, England
- Rachel Seiffert on 'The Dark Room' chaired by Professor Robert Eaglestone: The first in the Library's new series 'Writing Wrongs: The Nazi Era in Fiction' examining fiction set in the Nazi era. Spaces are limited. To reserve a place, please email the Library or call 020 7636 7247
- December 9, 2009 - January 27, 2010– Vespasian Warner Public Library, Clinton, IL
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings.
- December 9, 2009, 12 noon – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest with speaker Arlette Cohen. Please bring a dairy lunch, beverage and cookies provided. For information and to RSVP, contact: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- December 10, 2009, 10:00 am – Goodwin Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Cherry Hill, NJ
- Catskill Puppet Theater production of The Town That Fought Hate. For more information, www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/121009060310hate.pdf
- December 10, 2009, 7:00 pm – Goethe-Institut Washington, Washington, DC
- Screening of Stumbling Stone (Stolperstein) preceeded by a short, Through the Eyes of the Needle. Special Guests: Marsha Rehns, Writer/Editor, and Nina Shapiro-Perl, Director. Stolperstein describes the laying of markers–stolpersteins–engraved with the names of those taken during the Holocaust in front of their former homes. Through the Eye of the Needle is the story of a Holocaust survivor and seamstress who created an eyewitness account through art with her needle. For more: www.wjff.org or 202-777-3231; tickets at www.boxofficetickets.com or 800-494-8497.
- December13, 2009, 10:30 am – Eden Roc Renaissance Resort, Miami Beach, FL
- Gathering of the Surviving SS St. Louis Passengers, Global and U.S. Dignitaries Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the fated SS St. Louis voyage. Fees. For more: www.thestlouisproject.com
- December 13, 2009, 1:00-4:00 pm – Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Los Angeles, CA
- Symposium: Holocaust Survivors: Stories of Resilience discussing the results of the study "Forgiveness, Resiliency and Survivorship Among Holocaust Survivors." The symposium will feature Dr. Valdimir Melamed along with Survivors and other Holocaust educators. For more information: click here.
- December 15, 2009 – Keene State University, Keene, NH
- Opening of the USHMM traveling exhibit: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945.
- December 15, 2009, 10:30 am – Temple Judea Mizpah, Skokie, IL
- The survivor community, including their families, is invited to a Chanukah party including lunch and entertainment featuring Cantor Stewart Figa. For information and bus reservations from the Bernard Horwich building please call: (847) 568-5100.
- December 20, 2009, 2:00 pm – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest Real to Reel Holocaust Film Series: No. 4 Street of Our Lady, the story of Polish-Catholic rescuer Francisca Halamajowa. The film's producer, Judy Maltz, and child survivor Frances Malkin, whose family story is told in the documentary, will speak. Light refreshments will follow. For information and to RSVP, contact: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194
- December 20, 2009, 2:00 pm – Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
- Screening of Who Was the Woman Who Wore the Hat? – A program for families about Artifacts & Identity: an afternoon of storytelling and activities. Free with Museum admission. Advance reservations requested. Recommended for children ages 8 to 11 accompanied by an adult family member. For more: 847.967.4889 or reserve seats online, www.ilholocaustmuseum.org
- January 17, 2010, 7:00 pm – Beifield Auditorium, JCC Phyllis and Harvey Sandler Center for Jewish Life Enhancement, Boca Raton, FL
- Staged reading of The Interview dealing with the relationship between Holocaust survivors and their children. Fees. For more: 561-852-3241
- February 1 - April 30, 2010 – Holocaust and Intolerance Museum of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Varian Fry, ASSIGNMENT: RESCUE, 1940-1941.
- February 5 - March 28, 2010 – University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings.
- February 9, 2010, 7:00 pm – Weiner Library, London, England
- Rescue and Romance: Love in Word and Deed: a lecture by Anne Sebba as part of 'Past Caring: A Celebration of Love in History', to celebrate the lives of Ida and Louise Cook and their efforts to rescue Jews from Europe. For more: http://thewienerlibraryinstituteofcontemporaryhistory.createsend2.com/T/ViewEmail/r/C0299BA9C9506679/53D2F0B8EBF8B330C67FD2F38AC4859C
- February 12 - May 2, 2010 – Penn State University, HUB-Robeson Galleries, University Park, PA
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race.
- February 18, 2010, 7:00 pm – Weiner Library, London, England
- A lecture by Dr Joseph Garncarz FilmTalk: Jews Playing Nazis in Hollywood Films - The Ultimate Irony? Free but please email or call 020 7580 3493 to book a place. For more: http://thewienerlibraryinstituteofcontemporaryhistory.createsend2.com/T/ViewEmail/r/C0299BA9C9506679/53D2F0B8EBF8B330C67FD2F38AC4859C
- February 2 - April 7, 2010 – Thiel College, Greenville, PA
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Schindler.
FYI: For your information
- FYI… Dorot association d’histoire is French nonprofit organization which has worked on locating archival material related to Jewish refugees in Western Europe since 1999. In 2006 we launched a website www.jewishtraces.org which has various databases of victims of persecutions mostly in France but also in Belgium and Italy. It also has articles on history, places and people.
We are looking for Survivors or their descendants who were granted visas for Portugal in June 1940 by Aristides Sousa Mendes, in Bordeaux, Toulouse, Bayonne and Hendaye, for a project related to the Aristides Sousa Mendes Foundation in Lisbon. From June 16th to June 23, 1940, Aristides Sousa Mendes frantically issued Portuguese visas, free of charge, to over 30,000 refugees, 12,000 of whom were Jews, seeking to escape the Nazi terror.
If you, or a member of your family, were granted a Portuguese visa in order to leave France in June 1940, we are interested in you testimony. Please contact Manuela Wyler at: manuela.wyler@dorot.fr. Wherever you are living we would like to reach you and collect your testimony for an archival / web based project. For more on Sousa Mendes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristides_de_Sousa_Mendes
- FYI… NEW JEWISH LIFE IN BERLIN - BBC World Service broadcast (18/11/2009): Why thousands of Jews have made their home in what used to be Hitler's capital. To listen (28 minutes) : www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p0053dgw
- FYI… The Anti-Defamation League, USC Shoah Foundation Institute, and Yad Vashem are proud to announce the launch of the new Echoes and Reflections Web site. The enhanced site provides educators with the necessary tools to deliver accurate and authentic Holocaust education to today’s students. The new home page design highlights some of the most important internal pages including the Student/Teacher Resource Center, Lessons and National Standards Overview, Frequently Asked Questions, and Full Visual Histories. The site also highlights teacher-training opportunities, a News and Updates section and promotes the Echoes and Reflections Community of Teachers through social networks. This new and enhanced Web site will be an invaluable resource for teachers as they integrate the award-winning curriculum into their Holocaust curriculum. Please visit the new Web site HERE.
- FYI… From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Combating hate speech online
- FYI… To read an interview with Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer: www.holocausttaskforce.org/images/itf_data/documents/08_news/interview_with_yehuda_bauer.pdf
- FYI… Here is information on the screening of Four Seasons Lodge in Boston and in Los Angeles.
- Note: Links were active when the newsletter was written but some links may now have been deactivated by the publisher. If any link doesn't work, you can look for the story in a search engine, e.g., Google, Yahoo, Cuil or others.
- Op-Ed: Kristallnacht in Munich, then and now
- Nightmarish memories of Nazis' Sobibor death camp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8381413.stm?ls - BBC News - The man who smuggled himself into Auschwitz
- Auschwitz survivor who testified at Nuremberg Trials dies
www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8680 - Remembering Raou
l www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/news/remembering-raoul.6040.htm - Felix Rohatyn Recalls his Experiences During the Holocaust
www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/news/felix-rohatyn-recalls-his.6073.htm - Pope receives Holocaust survivor in private audience
www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8674 - Hidden memorials in Berlin
- New German memorial honors Nazis, ignores Jews
- Merkel honors Holocaust victims in speech to Congress
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/04/1008946/merkel-honors-holocaust-victims-in-speech-to-congress - Germany restores 1936 athletic record to Jewish woman
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/24/1009372/germany-restores-1936-athletic-record-to-jewish-woman - Swastikas daubed on Dresden synagogue
www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8606 - Wagner great-grandson objects to Berlin Wall event music | JTA - Jewish & Israel News
- Germany - Top Nazi-Hunter Got Best Break in Years Finding New Leads in Brazilian Archive
www.vosizneias.com/43872/eid/38684248 - Trial of suspected Nazi hitman in Germany suspended
www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8625 - As Demjanjuk trial nears, prosecutors confident they can convict
- In Austria, remembering prewar Jewish life, not just death
- 'Better late than never'Austrian envoys discuss Shoah with JDS students
- Vienna, Austria - Members of Holocaust Institute Quit after Fight with City's Jewish Community
www.vosizneias.com/41596/eid/62516418 - Confronting a conveniently redesigned past
- Stolen Bible repatriated to Vienna
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/10/1009084/stolen-bible-repatriated-to-vienna - Reinvigorating Jewish life in Poland (Chicago Jewish News)
- Warsaw Jewish Cemetery (JTA Wandering Jew video)
- Holocaust memorials go up in Eastern Europe, with some flaws
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/30/1008844/holocaust-memorials-go-up-in-e-europe-with-some-flaws - In Eastern Europe, advances toward accountability but more to do
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/28/1008795/eastern-europes-reckoning-with-wartime-past-varies-widely - Riot police break up Hungarian neo-Nazi group meeting
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/22/1009338/hungarian-guard-mounts-recruitment-campaign - Hungarian extremists promise cleansing of nation from "vermin"
http://worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showFocus/id/20 - An Ethical Question: Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers?
- Canadian court tells government to reconsider decision to strip alleged Nazi killer of citizenship
http://worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showFocus/id/16 - Trial of Ivan Demjanjuk begins in Munich
http://worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showFocus/id/23 - Ex-SS member, 90, charged with murdering Jews
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/17/1009252/former-ss-member-charged-in-ww-ii-jewish-murders - BBC NEWS | Europe | 'Ex-Nazi' charged with 58 murders
- Holocaust denier says he’s ‘unbroken’ after prison
- Australia decides to extradite suspected Nazi war criminal to Hungary
www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8626 - Australia orders extradition of alleged Nazi
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/13/1009159/autsralia-orders-extradition-of-alleged-war-criminal - Academics quit Austrian Holocaust studies center
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/18/1009288/academics-quit-austrian-holocaust-studies-center - Hezbollah presses school into pulling Anne Frank
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/09/1009038/hezbollah-heavies-school-into-pulling-anne-frank - Finding Common Ground
www.huffingtonpost.com/menachem-rosensaft/finding-common-ground_b_370203.html - Ahmadinejad appoints leading anti-Semite as new official in charge of the press
www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8585 - Why Holocaust Denial Is on the Rise in the Arab World
- British MP involved in expenses scandal apologizes for Holocaust analogy
www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8583 - Exclusive: easyJet grounds in-flight magazine after Holocaust gaffe
www.newstatesman.com/2009/11/holocuast-memorial-easyjet-magazine - B’nai Brith ad raises survivors’ ire
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/12/1009147/bnai-brith-ad-raises-survivors-ire - Bishop Williamson refuses to pay fine for Holocaust denial
http://worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8622 - Culture clash in the ICUWas life-support denied to Shoah survivor?
- N.J. man reunites with friend who protected him from Nazis
www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/11/nj_man_reunites_with_friend_he.html - Near Chicago, the Holocaust's lessons resonate
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112002272.html - YIDDISHLAND: It's the place most American Jews trace their roots to
www.chicagojewishnews.com/stories.htm?sid=1 - ADL to GOP: ‘Forcefully’ condemn Holocaust imagery
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/12/1009145/adl-to-gop-leaders-forcefully-condemn-holocaust-imagery - Rabbis urge end to Nazi imagery in politics
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/02/1008889/conservative-rabbis-urged-end-to-nazi-imagery-in-political-discourse - Holocaust Survivor Sues Madison Ave. Landlord for Discrimination
- The child of Auschwitz's Kommandant
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8210135.stm - Born in Berlin, figthing for U.S.
http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/11/18/1009279/born-in-berlin-figthing-for-us - Kristallnacht's Obama connection
- AJC OP-ED in Miami Herald: In Germany, shattered glass and a shattered wall
www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=2818289&content_id=%7bDD93E912-6A89-49CF-B4EA-7B2CA7D69660%7d¬oc=1 - The Nazis writ large
- 'Four Seasons': The back story
- From Print to Film: Reflections on the Transition
- The Holocaust is now on Facebook
www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg110209.php3 - New York Non-Profit Distributes Leftover Food From Sport Events, Concerts (Note: Syd Mandelbaum is a son of survivors*)
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-10-31-voa10.cfm - FYI… Syd Mandelbaum has been awarded the Cohon Award for service to Klal Yisrael, the total Jewish people. This year marks the first time the Cohon Award will go to anyone engaged in the physical sciences. Syd, the son of survivors, created the DNA Shoah Project as well as Rock and Wrap it Up. See article above for more.
- FYI… Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust announces the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE), a ground breaking initiative taking place in New York, Berlin, and Poland that challenges medical and law students to consider contemporary ethical issues facing their professions — using the Holocaust and the conduct of their professions in Nazi Germany as a framework for the study. FASPE is now accepting applications for the inaugural program, which will take place in summer 2010. Applications are available at www.mjhnyc.org/faspe. Deadline: December 15, 2009.
- FYI… Check out this website and see how you can buy discount Broadway show tickets and some of the proceeds will go to Zachor Holocaust Remembrance Foundation: www.givenik.com/?code=jiggy
- FYI… Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program: A Bridge to History June and July, 2010 Eight to ten postgraduate students will be selected based on demonstrated superior academic abilities as well as individual initiative and leadership skills. Applications from students with an interest in Holocaust studies, Jewish Studies, Polish-Jewish history, genocide prevention, and human rights are strongly encouraged. Applications due January 18, 2010: www.ajcf.org. For more information: Shiri Sandler, at (646) 437-4276 or ssandler@mjhnyc.org.
- FYI… From the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, a short Holocaust-related film:
www.youtube.com/user/SFJewishFilmFestival#p/a - FYI… The ITS (International Tracing Service) newsletter is online:
www.its-arolsen.org/index.php?L=1&id=144 - FYI… The Wiener Library newsletter is online:
http://thewienerlibraryinstituteofcontemporaryhistory.createsend2.com/T/ViewEmail/r/C0299BA9C9506679/53D2F0B8EBF8B330C67FD2F38AC4859C - FYI… The Lo-Tishkach newsletter is online: www.lo-tishkach.org/en/
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