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Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
January 2010
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Dear Members and Friends,
We would like to welcome the hundreds of new members who joined GSI this month. What a wonderful way to start the New Year. Welcome to our extended family!
There are many survivor family groups that have the word “generation” in their title and it is easy to get them confused. Generations of the Shoah International (GSI) is an all-volunteer organization that has neither president nor spokesperson. There is no charge for membership or for posting public programs, inquiries or searches. GSI does not request dues or donations and is dedicated to freely sharing information and resources with others. We have participated / assisted with conferences and public events, conducted speaker training seminars to help children and grandchildren learn to speak effectively about the Holocaust and lobbied Congress on behalf of survivors. GSI played a major role to make caring for survivor needs a top priority for the 46 nations involved in the Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague.
Our GSI Facebook group is very international. Membership is open and we welcome you to participate. This group is what you make of it and wonderful people are doing exciting work that they are sharing online. If you wish to communicate with someone in our Facebook group all you have to do is click on their photo or name to be directed to their personal page to speak with them directly. You will not be able to see anyone’s profile unless you are a “friend” of theirs, but you can communicate.
We are introducing a new resource on our website. Peter Landé compiled a “how to” guide for researching Holocaust genealogy and has graciously offered to make it available to everyone. To see this guide, which first appeared in the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington (www.jewishgen.org/JGSGW/) newsletter Mishpacha: www.genshoah.org/pdfs/How_%20to.pdf
The members of the GSI Coordinating Council; Anat Bar-Cohen (MD), Dan Brooks (NY), Dina Cohen (NJ), Ken Engel (MN), Esther Toporek Finder (MD), Klaire Firestone (CA), Sandy Hoffman (WI), Pepi Nichols (TX), Doris Schwarz-Lisenbee (CA), Charley Silow (MI), Bonnie Stein (FL), Barbara Wind (NJ), and webmaster Anna Schiffer wish all of you the best for 2010. Hopefully this will be a year of peace.
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.
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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
From the HSF-USA website: A powerful Friend of the Court brief by eminent constitutional and foreign policy law professors has been filed in the pending Generali appeal. The brief argues in support of plaintiffs-survivors seeking the overturn of a 2004 District Court decision blocking suits against the large Italian insurer accused of failing to honor Holocaust-era policies. http://hsf-usa.org/Brief%20Amici%20Curiae%20on%20Behalf%20of%20Professors%20of%20Constitutional%20Law%20and%20Foreign%20Relations%20Law%20of%20the%20US%2012-18-09.pdf
Attorney Sam Dubbin, who serves as counsel to HSF, filed a response on behalf of plaintiffs in the Generali appeal to the Department of Justice brief in late October. The response challenges basic arguments and omissions made by the government. http://hsf-usa.org/Letter%20Brief%20for%20Plaintiff-Appellant%20Dr.%20Thomas%20Weiss%2012-18-09.pdf
ANNOUNCEMENTSFrom the United Nations (UN)
The 2010 observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust will focus on a central theme that emphasizes the legacy that survivors will pass on to succeeding generations. The theme, “Holocaust Remembrance: the Legacy of Survival”, will highlight the moral messages expressed by those who have suffered from Nazi persecution and denial of basic human rights. As there are fewer survivors to tell their stories today, it is of primary importance that these universal lessons be shared. Only this will ensure that their legacy will continue to promote respect for diversity and human rights for generations to come. [See upcoming events section below.]
From Yad Vashem
A new online exhibit, “Heartstrings, Music of the Holocaust”, highlights music created in the ghettos, camps and partisan camps. A section about composer Shmerk Kaczerginski highlights his work in the Vilna ghetto where he wrote songs; directed theater productions and literary evenings; and was actively involved in partisan activities. Later, while in the forest, he began documenting the stories and songs that he had written and heard. After the war he continued this work and became an expert in the area, recording 60 songs sung by Holocaust survivors. The songs in this exhibition are part of those recordings, which are now preserved in the Yad Vashem Archives.
“Anonymous No Longer:” In creating the permanent exhibition for the new Holocaust History Museum, Yad Vashem sought to introduce an emphasis on the fate of the individual during the Holocaust. Identifying the men, women and children in the photographic display rescues these unknown faces from anonymity. Since the new Museum was inaugurated in 2005, survivors and individuals have come forward and identified themselves, their relatives and acquaintances in the photographs on display. “Anonymous No Longer” presents the names of those who have been identified. In cases where the same individual has been identified differently by different people, all relevant identifications have been included
"Virtual Shtetl" is devoted to the Jewish history of Poland. Currently, our portal is a source of information but future plans include a system by which Internet users will interact with each other. It will create a link between Polish-Jewish history and the contemporary, multi-cultural world. This museum without barriers is a consequent extension of the real Museum. Its main objective is to provide a unique social forum for everyone interested in Polish-Jewish life. The "Virtual Shtetl" re-tells the history of Polish Jews which existed, to a great extent, in a town or a village (Yiddish: shtetl) more>>
From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Now is the time to be included in the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Through its International Holocaust Survivors Outreach Project, the Registry seeks to rescue the evidence worldwide by expanding its search for Holocaust survivors while there is still time. Since 1993, the Meed Registry, which maintains the most comprehensive listing of Holocaust survivors in the world, has provided valuable information to thousands of survivors worldwide, and in some cases has succeeded in re-uniting friends and family members from the Holocaust era. Inclusion in the Registry is voluntary and assures that the names of survivors will be preserved for the historical record and memory. Family members can register survivors posthumously. To protect the privacy of survivors and their families, the Registry’s database is not searchable online. Visit our website at www.ushmm.org/registry for further information and to download registration forms in any of the 19 languages available. For more information, contact Jaime J. Monllor, International Outreach Officer, Tel. 202-488-2692, E-mail: jmonllor@ushmm.org
There are various rumors on the internet regarding Holocaust education in the UK. To learn what is really happening please visit the Holocaust Educational Trust's website: www.het.org.uk , www.het.org.uk/content.php, www.het.org.uk/content.php?page_id=263
Generations of the Shoah Argentina has posted this retrospective of their work from 1997 – 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc-RjTxBBSw
UPCOMING CONFERENCES- 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
Crisis & Credibility in the Jewish Christian World: Remembering Franklin H. Littell - 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
- You are the Messengers to a Time I Will Not See:
A Conversation with Gerda Weissmann Klein Videoconference - Now - March: Student Service Learning Projects
- March 24, 2010 * 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Service Project Celebration: Student Sharing Videoconference Event.
- For more information / registration: www.magpi.net/programs/klein.html. For information: http://kleinfoundation.org/contact/
- 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
- The Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators
- June 27 – 29, 2010
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
- To apply: www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/prodev/belfer/ and fax a letter of recommendation from your supervisor to Nicole Reaves at 202.314.7888. Applications are due no later than June 4, 2010.
- Children and War: Past and Present
- 30 September – 2 October 2010
University of Salzburg, Austria - For more information: 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.
- Creating Character: Moving Beyond Anne Frank to Reach Young Learners
(Elementary Educators) - February 11, 2010 8:00 am-3:00 pm
- Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, Illinois
- No cost to attend. Advance registration required. Deadline to register is January 28, 2010: www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/elementary_educators/287.php
For more information: Call 847.967.4844 or email education@ilhmec.org.
- 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
- Educator’s Workshop
The Creative Use of Film in the Teaching of the Holocaust:
Meeting the Needs of Students in a Visually-Oriented Society - Cumberland County College, Vineland, NJ
- February 25, 2010 3:30 pm – 8:00 pm
- For more information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/022510film.pdf
- Teaching Ethics with the Holocaust
(Secondary Educators) - March 4, 2010 4:00-7:00 pm
- Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, Illinois
- No cost to attend. Advance registration required. Deadline to register is February 18, 2010:
http://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/secondary_educators__evening_workshops/286.php For more information: Call 847.967.4844 or email education@ilhmec.org.
- Online Seminar - Holocaust and Human Behavior
- Facing History and Ourselves, Lesley University, MA
- March 4 – April 28, 2010
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest Educator’s Workshop
- Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- March 9, 2010 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
- Keynote speaker: Shulamit Imber, Yad Vashem Pedagogical Director of the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem and member of the International Task Force on Holocaust Remembrance and Education. Free, professional credits available. For more information and to RSVP: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- Teaching the Holocaust: A 5-Day Study Seminar in Berlin, Germany for American Educators
- March 28, 2010 – April 2, 2010
- Berlin, Germany
- Application Deadline: January 15, 2010. Please send all completed applications as a pdf file, as well as in the body of an email, to: easton-calabria@gedenkstaette-sachsenhausen.de
- Now – January 15, 2010 – Lobby, County of Santa Clara Main Government Bldg on Hedding Street, San Jose, CA
- The US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Schindler.
- Now – January 27, 2010 – Vespasian Warner Public Library, Clinton, IL
- The US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings. For more information: www.ushmm.org.
- Now - January, 2010 – 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 - 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 - February 1, 2010 – University of Louisville, Kornhauser Health Science Library, Louisville, KY
- The US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race.
- Now - February 9, 2010 – Keene State University, Keene, NH
- The US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945.
- Now - February 10, 2010 – Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
- Exhibit: Anne Frank: A History for Today (developed by the Anne Frank House and sponsored by the Anne Frank Center USA), tracing the story of the Frank family alongside the events of World War II, revealing the challenges faced by all Jews and the difficult decisions people were forced to make. For more www.ilholocaustmuseum.org
- Now - February 14, 2010 – South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
- The US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race.
- Now – February 21, 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 – March 21, 2010 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Exhibit: 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 – April 4, 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 – April 25, 2010 – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
- Exhibit: Icons of Loss: Angels and the Warsaw Boy of Samuel Bak (Holocaust survivor). For more information, 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. 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
- January 10, 2010, 11:00 am – Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St, New York, NY
- Symposium/Performance - Imagination and Catastrophe: Art and the Aftermath of Genocide , a discussion of how the imagination wrestles with historically catastrophic events. The program will also include film segments, fiction and poetry readings, and a musical presentation, The Golden Peacock by composer Hugo Weisgall. Fees. For more: www.programs.cjh.org or www.cjh.org/lemkin/events.php. For tickets, call 212-868-4444 or www.smarttix.com.
- January 10, 2010, 1:30 pm – Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
- A Conversation with... Hear from Aaron Elster, an eyewitness to history, whose presentation will be followed by Q&A. Free with Museum admission. Reservations recommended. For more information: 847.967.4889 or email Lillian.gerstner@ilhmec.org
- January 10, 2010, 2:00 pm – Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Los Angeles, CA
- Shoah Enlightenment Series presents Michael Berenbaum: Recent Discoveries in Holocaust Research. For reservations & information: Klara Firestone: 310-277-4438, kfire413@aol.com.
- January 12, 2010, 12:00 pm – Pickford Theater, Madison Building, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
- North African Jewry during WWII: The Holocaust and its Impact with Dr. Maurice Roumani, visiting professor at the American University, Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science & Middle East Studies, and founding director of the Elyachar Center for the Study of Sephardi Heritage at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel. For more information: gshi@loc.gov or 202-707-9897
- January 12, 2010, 7:00 pm – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest Real to Reel Holocaust Film Series: Nowhere in Africa, the true story of a Jewish family who fled the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Light refreshments will follow. For information and to RSVP, contact: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194
- January 13 – 28, 2010 – The Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, 165 West 65 Street (most screenings), New York, NY
- The New York Jewish Film Festival has various films that have Holocaust themes. For information and tickets: www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/nyjff2010
- January 13, 2010, 12 noon – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest Lunch & Learn with speaker Roger Flarety. Please bring a dairy lunch, beverage and cookies provided. For information and to RSVP, contact: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- January 14, 2010, 7:00 pm – Jewish Family Service of Bergen County, 1485 Teaneck Rd, Teaneck, NJ
- Teaneck Second-Generation monthly discussion group. Free of charge, advance registration preferred. For questions or to register, please call 201-837-9090 or email IRA@jfsbergen.org.
- January 17, 2010, 1:30 pm – Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
- Anne Frank: On the Air: GreatWorks Theatre Company portrays a group of 1940s radio actors performing a new script, not realizing the story is true. Recommended for 6th grade and older. Reservations required. Fees. For more: 847.967.4889 or Lillian.gerstner@ilhmec.org
- January 17, 2010, 7:00 pm – Levy Family Campus Lobby, JCC, Los Gatos, CA
- Screening of The Angel of Ahlem. Holocaust survivor Jack Tramiel will be interviewed about the film which is about his liberator. For more and to RSVP (by January 11): diane@jvalley.org.
- January 18 – February 12, 2010 – JCC of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Schindler.
- January 19, 2010, 7:00 pm – Beifield Auditorium, JCC, 21050 95th Ave. S, Boca Raton, FL
- Staged reading of The Interview about Holocaust survivors and their children. For more: ndershaw@yahoo.com and for tickets 561-852-3241.
- January 21, 2010, 10:00 am – Goodwin Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Cherry Hill, NJ
- Performance of Dear Esther , the story of Esther Raab's escape from Sobibor. Fees. For more information: http://www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/esther.
- January 24, 2010, 11:00 am – Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
- Diary-Making Workshop Join us to honor the legacy of Anne Frank and Zlata Filipović and create your own personal diary to take home. This workshop is geared toward families and children ages 8 to 11, and limited to 30 participants. Reservations required. Fees. For more information: 847.967.4889 or email Lillian.gerstner@ilhmec.org
- January 24, 2010, 1:30 pm – Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY
- Panel discussion and memoir writing workshop: How to Write Our Parents' Wars. Fees. For more: www.mjhnyc.org/safrahall/visit_safra_26.htm. Pre-registration for the workshop is required. Please call the box office at 646.437.4202 to sign up for the workshop.
- January 25, 2009 - March 5, 2010 – United Nations Headquarters, Public Lobby, East 46th Street & First Avenue, New York, NY
- Exhibits: Generations: a Life History Exhibition, a joint project of the UK Holocaust Centre, San Diego Jewish Cultural Centre and Conscience Display, and Architecture of Murder: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Blueprints, sponsored by Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority. Both exhibits open January 25 at 6:00 pm. For more information: arnesen@un.org or www.un.org/holocaustremembrance/2010/index.shtml
- January 26, 2010, 1:30 pm – San Jose City Hall, San Jose, CA
- The Mayor and City Council of San Jose will commemorate the5th Annual United Nations Holocaust Remembrance with a proclamation ceremony followed by a reception. For more information: drdschwarz@aol.com or (408) 998-5358 Ext. 4
- January 27, 2010, 4:00 pm – Library Building, 2nd floor, Mercer County Community College, West Windsor, NJ
- Open House and Re-Dedication of the New Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center of Mercer County. For more information, www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/012710open.pdf
- January 27, 2010, 16.30 – Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, Poland
- Holocaust Memorial Day and the 65th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau: Visit the former Kraków ghetto area with candle lighting at Plac Bohaterów Getta to commemorate the Jews murdered during the Holocaust. Followed at 18.30 by Revealing the Degenerated Music: Emanuele Torquati Recital. For more: www.galiciajewishmuseum.org
- January 27, 2010, 6:00 pm – Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St, New York, NY
- Reading and Music in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Free, RSVP to memoria@primolevicenter.org. Full program at: www.primolevicenter.org.
- January 27, 2010, 7:00 pm – General Assembly Hall, United Nations, New York, NY
- International Day of Commemoration in memory of victims of the Holocaust: Holocaust Remembrance: the Legacy of Survival. The ceremony will include remarks by a Holocaust survivor and a representative of the Roma; messages from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and representatives of the governments of Israel and Germany; and musical performances. For more information: www.un.org/holocaustremembrance/2010/index.shtml
- January 27, 2010, 7:00 pm – 49 Grove (near Bleeker), New York, NY
- In honor of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 3GNY is launching - our new initiative that will bring the stories and lessons of the Holocaust to school classrooms. Under the guidance of professional educators, 3GNY will train participants to teach their family stories. Donation requested. All welcome. For more: info@3gnewyork.org.
- January 28, 2010, 10:00 am – TBD, United Nations, New York, NY
- Briefing on the legacy of the Jews of Morocco, where there was a concentration of Sephardic Jews who also suffered internment and deportation during the Holocaust. For more: dpingo.briefings@un.org
- January 28, 2010, 6:00 pm – Conference Structure Room 3, United Nations, New York, NY
- Film screening: Defiance about Jewish partisans battling the Nazis in Belarus. Seating is limited on a first-come, first served basis. For registration: holocaustremembrance@un.org.
- January 28, 2010, 7:30 pm – JCC on the Palisades, 411 Clinton Ave, Tenafly, NJ
- Screening ofBlessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh, the first documentary feature about the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper and resistance fighter. Post screening discussion will be led by Susan Beer, who was incarcerated in the same prison at that time. Free. For information/registration: 201.408.1426, http://jccotp.org/category.aspx?catid=101.
- January 31, 2010, 1:30 pm – Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY
- The Primo Levi Center and the Italian Cultural Institute present Jews in Italy During the Holocaust. Mussolini's Camps: The Internment of Jewish Civilians in Fascist Italy: Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, Alessandro Cassin , and Doris Schechter will discuss the unique situations of Jews in Italy during the Holocaust after a screening of the Italian documentary The Jews of Fossoli. Free. For more: www.mjhnyc.org/safrahall/visit_safra_hall.htm
- February 1 - April 30, 2010 – Holocaust and Intolerance Museum of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
- The US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit, Varian Fry, ASSIGNMENT: RESCUE, 1940-1941.
- February 1, 2010, 3:00 pm – Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St, New York, NY
- Racolin Memorial Lecture - Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in Subcarpathian Rus: The Destruction of Jewish Life in a MultiEthnic Region during World War II. Speaker: Raz Segal of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University. Free, RSVP nkahn@yivo.cjh.org or 917 606-8290. For more about the program: www.programs.cjh.org.
- February 1, 2010, 6:30 pm – Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St, New York, NY
- Panel Discussion - Diplomacy and Genocide: Challenges for the Future. Fees. For more about the program and presenters: www.programs.cjh.org or www.cjh.org/lemkin/events.php. For tickets, call 212-868-4444 or visit www.smarttix.com.
- February 2 – April 25, 2010 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX
- Exhibit: The Book of Memory featuring the work of Mexican artist Bela Gold. For more information: www.hmh.org.
- February 3, 2010, 6:30 pm – Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY
- The Primo Levi Center and the Italian Cultural Institute present Jews in Italy During the Holocaust. Screening of L'Oro di Roma, a fictional cinematic account of actual events chronicling a Gestapo commander's plot to extort gold from members of Rome's Jewish community. Free. For more: www.mjhnyc.org/safrahall/visit_safra_hall.htm
- February 4, 2010, 6:00 pm – Penn State Great Valley, 30 E. Swedesford Rd., Malvern, PA
- Screening of No. 4 Street of Our Lady, a documentary film that tells the remarkable story of Francisca Halamajowa, a Polish-Catholic woman who risked her life to save 15 of her Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers. To register https://crm.orionondemand.com/crm/forms/M0868LM0SA70x6700rxJ
- February 5 - March 28, 2010 – University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN
- The US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings.
- February 6, 2010, 7:30 pm> – Patriots Theater, Trenton War Memorial, Trenton, NJ
- Pre-Broadway preview of WARSAW, an epic musical drama based on the true heroic story of the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis in 1943, performed by Boheme Opera NJ. Fees. For more information, www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/020610warsaw.pdf
- February 9, 2010, 7:00 pm – Weiner Library, London, England
- Rescue and Romance: Love in Word and Deed: a lecture by Anne Sebba celebrating 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 10, 2010, 6:30 pm – Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY
- Book program - Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler. Fees. For more: www.mjhnyc.org/safrahall/visit_safra_hall.htm
- February 11, 2010, 7:00 pm – Jewish Family Service of Bergen County, 1485 Teaneck Rd, Teaneck, NJ
- Teaneck Second-Generation monthly discussion group. Free of charge, advance registration preferred. For questions or to register, please call 201-837-9090 or email IRA@jfsbergen.org.
- February 12 - May 2, 2010 – Penn State University, HUB-Robeson Galleries, University Park, PA
- The US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race.
- February 14 - March 5, 2010 – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Normandy Beach: an exhibit of drawings & paintings done on the day of the Normandy invasion by renowned New Jersey artist Ugo Giannini. His widow, Maxine Giannini, will speak at the opening reception on February 14, 2010 at 2:00 pm. For information and to RSVP, contact: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- February 14 – April 7, 2010 – Thiel College, Greenville, PA
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Schindler
- February 14, 2010, 5:00 pm – Barshop Jewish Community Center of San Antonio, 12500 N.W. — Military Highway, San Antonio, TX
- San Antonio Jewish Film Festival: screening of No. 4 Street of Our Lady, a documentary that tells the remarkable story of Francisca Halamajowa, a Polish-Catholic rescuer. The film's producer Judy Maltz and Holocaust survivor Fran Malkin, featured in the film, will speak. For more information, contact Aliyah Kuchinsky at (210)302-6827
- February 18, 2010, 6:30 pm – Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
- Born in Mauthausen: Eva Clarke’s story: Eva Clarke will share how she owes her life to her mother’s tenacity and the arrival of American GI liberators, when she was only three days old. Reservations required. Fees. For more: 847.967.4889 or Lillian.gerstner@ilhmec.org
- 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 18, 2010, 7:00 pm – 99 SE Mizner Blvd, Palmetto Place Clubhouse, Boca Raton. FL
- In the Shadow of the Nazi Past: Children of Perpetrators and Survivors, presented by Dr. Rose Gatens, Director, FAU Center for Holocaust & Human Rights Education. For more information: www.nextgenerations.org
- February 19 – April 25, 2010 – Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945
- February 21, 2010, 1:30 pm – Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
- A Conversation with... Explore memory, identity and loss from the perspective of Holocaust survivor testimony, social services and theatre. Participants include David Bier, MSW Consultant, Holocaust Community Services; and David Chack, President, Association for Jewish Theatre. Free with Museum admission. Reservations recommended. For more: 847.967.4889 or email Lillian.gerstner@ilhmec.org
- February 22, 2010, 4:00 pm – University Center 104, Drew University, Madison, NJ
- Conversations with Witnesses: Nesse Godin, Holocaust survivor from Lithuania who speaks nationwide on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Approved for 1.5 continuing education credits. For more: ctrholst@drew.edu or 973 408-3600.
- February 24 – April 7, 2010 – Thiel College, Greenville, PA
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Schindler.
- February 24, 2010, 12:00 pm – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest Bagels and Books: discussion of People of the Book, a novel inspired by the true story of the Sarajevo Haggadah, by Geraldine Brooks. RSVP / information: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- February 25, 2010, 10:00 am – Goodwin Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Cherry Hill, NJ
- Performance of Dear Esther, the story of Esther Raab's escape from Sobibor. Fees. For more information, www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/esther.pdf
- February 28, 2010, 1:30 pm – Goodman Auditorium, Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
- Sneak peek of the documentary about Holocaust survivor Sonia Reich, and her son Chicago Tribune journalist Howard Reich’s journey to understand late-onset Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Fees. Reservations required. For more information call 847.967.4889.
- March 2, 9 & 16, 2010, 7:30 pm – JCC on the Palisades, 411 Clinton Ave, Tenafly, NJ
- The Muriel & Matthew Feldman Distinguished Lecture Series: Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust with Prof. Mordechai Paldiel. Fees for individual lectures or series. For more information, or to register, please call 201.408.1458. http://jccotp.org/category.aspx?catid=99
- March 4, 2010, 11:00 am – Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St, New York, NY
- Book discussion:Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, with author Professor Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland. Fees. For more about the program: www.programs.cjh.org. For tickets, call 212-868-4444 or visit www.smarttix.com.
- March 8, 2010, 6:30 pm – Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St, New York, NY
- Panel Discussion: Czernowitz in Jewish Memory. Fees. For more about the program and presenters: www.programs.cjh.org. For tickets, call 212-868-4444 or visit www.smarttix.com.
- March 10, 2010, 6:30 pm – Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St, New York, NY
- Panel Discussion: Genocide and "Responsibility to Protect": The Evolution of International Law. Fees. For more about the program and presenters: www.programs.cjh.org or www.cjh.org/lemkin/events.php. For tickets, call 212-868-4444 or visit www.smarttix.com.
- March 13, 2010, 2:00 pm – Wallingford’s Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA
- Free concert-with-commentary: Composer Lori Laitman drew on the Holocaust poetry of Sri Lankan poet Anne Ranasinghe and Russian poet David Vogel for her song cycle Fathers, a work that explores the father-child relationship through the words of poets whose fathers were murdered by the Nazis. Sparks of Glory: Fathers
- March 14 - April 15, 2010 – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Exhibit: From Memory to History: Faces and Voices of the Holocaust. Created by the Holocaust Council of MetroWest, this exhibit describes the experiences of original eyewitnesses to the Holocaust through photo collages with explanatory test, videotaped interviews, historical artifacts and original artwork. Opening reception on March 14, 2010 at 2:00 pm featuring Songs of World War II performed by Melissa Schaffer and David Sanders. For more information and to RSVP for reception, please contact holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or call 973-929-3194.
- March 15 – June 10, 2010 – National Archives at Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum travelling exhibit Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
- March 16, 2010, 7:00 pm – The Gilman Theater at the Mandell JCC, 335 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford, CT
- Hartford Jewish Film Festival: screening of , a documentary film that tells the remarkable story of Francisca Halamajowa, a Polish-Catholic rescuer. The film's co-directors Judy Maltz and Richie Sherman will speak. For more: harriet@hdobin.com
- March 18, 2010, 10:00 am – Goodwin Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Cherry Hill, NJ
- Performance of Dear Esther, the story of Esther Raab's escape from Sobibor. Fees. For more information, www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/esther.pdf
- March 18, 2010, 7:00 pm – Jewish Family Service of Bergen County, Teaneck, NJ
- Teaneck Second-Generation monthly discussion group. Free of charge, advance registration preferred. For questions or to register, please call 201-837-9090 or email IRA@jfsbergen.org.
FYI: For your information
- FYI… From the American Red Cross Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Service
During 2009 the Tracing Center found 61 people alive, helped more than 150 survivors prove their internment in concentration and forced labor camps and uncovered information concerning the fates of more than 1,500 victims of the Holocaust. Our work is more than just numbers. This year a woman learned that not only did her sister survive the Holocaust but her brother did as well. The result was a family reunion between three generations 66 years in the making. The past year also brought the reopening of more than 10,000 requests that were previously closed due to lack of information. So far, close to 2,000 of those requests have been successfully resolved, and the information has been delivered to the survivors. For more: lklein@ARC-CMC.ORG
Also: Director of the Red Cross Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Linda Klein traveled throughout Palm Beach County recently, to spread word of our free service to community groups: Watch WPBF's coverage of the visit here. - FYI… These are some of the videos of the SS St. Louis Commemoration Event:
Congressman Ron Klein comments YouTube - SS St Louis.wmv or www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dY9qC3tTVw&feature=related
Playwright/Documentarian Robert Krakow and surviving passenger Herbert Karliner discuss the global significance of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the SS St. Louis Voyage YouTube - The SS St. Louis 70th Anniversary Commemoration Introduction
Post B'nai Mitzvah Group Trip to the National Foundation for Jewish Continuity's 70th Anniversary Commemoration December 13, 2009 YouTube - Temple Beth Shira-SS St. Louis Event 12/13/09Temple Beth Shi
SS St. Louis survivors gather at the Eden Roc on Miami - singing YouTube - 70th Anniversary of the Voyage of the SS St. Louis - FYI… As we mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we are reminded of the Auschwitz Album: http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/album_Auschwitz/mutimedia/index.html
- FYI… Holocaust Literature Research Institute
Professor Alain Goldschläger of The University of Western Ontario (Canada) has amassed one of the world’s largest collections of Holocaust testimonials. The Institute currently has a collection of more than 4,000 texts spanning 29 different languages. It is the second largest collection of Holocaust survivor testimonials and witness accounts outside of Israel and especially collects self-published or small-press publications which are often overlooked by the larger collections. If you have texts or references of self-published books or books published by small presses, the Institute would greatly appreciate your cooperation in providing those bibliographical sources or in sending us a hard copy where available. Do not hesitate to contact us for further information. Alain Goldschläger, Director, Holocaust Literature Research Institute; University of Western Ontario; London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7; Telephone: 519 661 3820; e-mail: agold@uwo.ca - FYI… New Shoah Memorial's website dedicated to Helene Berr is available. Parisian Helene Berr was 21 years old in 1942. A student at the Sorbonne, she kept a diary from April 1942 to February 1944. She was deported to Auschwitz in March 1944 and died in Bergen Belsen in April 1945.The website shows, through an interactive map of Paris, the life and stories described by Helene Berr in her diary and, in a wider context, the persecution of Jews in France during WWII. There is a short documentary film telling how Helene's diary was deposited in the archives of the Shoah Memorial. www.memorialdelashoah.org/upload/minisites/helene_berr/index.html
- FYI… One of the goals of the Fortunoff Video Archive is to disseminate our educational programs. Current technology has enabled us to redesign our website to include access to sixteen of our edited programs as streaming video; more will be added in the future. You can view these programs at www.library.yale.edu/testimonies under the heading “View Edited Programs.” Or, you can go directly to the Thematic Programs at www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/education/thematic.html and to the Single-Witness Programs www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/education/singlewitness.html
- FYI… 2010 Leo & Antonia Gershanov Student Essay Contest
One Person Can Make a Difference: Eliminating Genocide in My Lifetime
High school students in Illinois are invited to respond to the contest theme in an essay no longer than 1,200 words. Electronic submission only. The deadline for all entries is March 1, 2010. For more information: Call 847.967.4842 or email contest@ilhmec.org - FYI… The Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation Holocaust Remembrance Project Scholarship is a national essay contest for high school students, designed to encourage and promote the study of the Holocaust. The contest is open to all students age 19 and under who are residents of the United States, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, or are U.S. citizens living abroad. Application Deadline is April 2, 2010. For more information: http://holocaust.hklaw.com/
- FYI… A music video was filmed in Buchenwald by an Italian band called 7 grani.
They created the project Neve diventeremo about the life of a partisan (Rado Zuccon) deported during World War II, including a documentary about his life and the song in the link below. Part of the music video was filmed inside the Buchenwald camp. Right now the documentary and the video clip are available at the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. The link to the video and the translation of the words are posted on our home page.
God Almighty When Will It End? This music video with Subliminal and Miri Ben-Ari (granddaughter of survivors) is on our home page home page or www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVYanQ5r6rw - FYI… Re-visiting this to coincide with the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz:
CBS: 60 Minutes story about the archive at Bad Arolsen, Germany, Parts 1 & 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9cet2_LoJQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g63zTkDsxfM&feature=related …and
In the Name of the Victims is a documentary film by Ilan Ziv focusing on the Claims Conference and survivor poverty. www.tamouzmedia.com/in-the-name_movie.htm - FYI… To watch the video on The Jüdische Kulturbund Project: The Jüdische Kulturbund Project | GFEM - Media Database
- FYI… One by One, Inc. International has been facilitating deeply honest interchanges between members of the Holocaust survivor community and those of the Nazi Regime. Our work is based on that of survivors Dr. Victor Frankl and Primo Levi as well as Martin Buber along with theories of trauma and recovery. We are planning a meeting in the Boston area this April 2010. For more information: www.one-by-one.org
- FYI… Hitler's remains, Hitler's stolen art (CNN, AP) video
- 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.
- Hitler’s remains burned and dumped, archivist says
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/11/1009677/hitlers-remains-were-burned-and-thrown-into-river-says-russian-archivist - Auschwitz death camp sign stolen
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8420053.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/world/europe/19poland.html
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6961672.ece - Auschwitz sign found cut into pieces
www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showFocus/id/38 - 'Ordinary thieves' held in Auschwitz theft - Europe- msnbc.com
- Viewpoint: Why the Auschwitz sign is irreplaceable
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8421787.stm?msource=IMPACT08&tr=y&auid=5751821 - Perplexity After Auschwitz Sign Theft
www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/world/europe/24auschwitz.html?_r=2&th&emc=th - Should We Forgive the Nazis? - Issues
- What the Rebbe Said (and Didn't Say) About the Holocaust
www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/102705/jewish/The-Rebbe-on-the-Holocaust.htm - Pope Benedict pushes controversial Pius XII closer to sainthood
www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8745 - Pope tries to make amends with Jews
- Rome's Jews furious over papal decree extolling Pius' 'heroic virtues'
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1137039.html - Vatican: Pius, John Paul not ‘paired’
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/23/1009874/vatican-pius-wont-be-beatified-with-john-paul - History Held Hostage
http://reformjudaismmag.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=1531 - Israelis' Cancer Is Linked to Holocaust
- Searching for family that survived the Holocaust
www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/12/a_search_for_family_that_survi.html - U.S. Congress must act to help Holocaust survivors
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/20/1009824/us-congress-must-act-to-help-holocaust-survivors - National amnesia
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1259231077305 - BBC News - Auschwitz hero Denis Avey in line for Israeli honour
- For St. Louis passengers, 70th reunion could be their last
- Holocaust survivor, savior reunite 64 years later
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/30/1009451/holocust-survivor-savoir-reunite-after-64-years - Wiesel to Hungary: Make Holocaust denial illegal
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/10/1009648/wiesel-to-hungary-make-shoah-denial-illegal - Ronald Lauder criticizes revisionist theses of Lithuanian justice minister
http://worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showFocus/id/27 - Unions to remember Holocaust
www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/pcs_comment/index.cfm/id/CE67AAFB-5BB5-412A-A6774FAC10D2C7CE - Roundup of Tunisian Jews remembered
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/10/1009642/yad-vashem-paris-shoah-memorial-commemorate-north-african-jewry - Otto Lambsdorff Dies at 82; Shaped Nazi Victims Fund
www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/world/europe/09lambsdorff.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss - Nazi war crimes trial suspended due to new EU law
www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8692 - Former SS member admits murders http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/08/1009597/boere-former-ss-member-admits-murders
- Demjanjuk's lawyer opens trial pointing finger at Germany
- Demjanjuk attorney alleges unfairness of trial
www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8683 - Demjanjuk witness may be guilty of war crimes
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/16/1009768/demjanjuk-witness-may-be-guitly-of-war-crimes - Relatives of Holocaust victims tell of their grief in Demjanjuk trial
- DW-World: Demjanjuk presents German law with an almost impossible problem
- Audio: Demjanjuk trial resumed (21.12.2009)
- Demjanjuk attorney belittles survivors’ testimony
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/21/1009837/demjanjuk-attorney-belittles-survivors-testimony - Australia court grants bail to alleged Nazi
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/16/1009760/alleged-nazi-zentai-granted-bail - Children of 'monsters' (Washington Post)
Note: This website, Hitler’s Children, may be of interest: www.mayapro10.com/ - School Children Learn Twenty to Thirty Hours About the Third Reich
- Controversy erupts over Holocaust revisionism in E. Europe
- Austria to help restore Jewish cemeteries
- Genetic Detectives
www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/genetic-detectives/Content?oid=1624485 - Solving Shoa mysteries with ‘genetic testimony’
http://njjewishnews.com/article/middlesex/solving-shoa-mysteries-with-genetic-testimony/ - Polish Righteous honoured in Canada
http://www.jewishmuseum.org.pl/news.php?miId=3&lang=en&nId=1828 - Kindertransport survivor is knighted
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/31/1009972/kindertransport-survivor-is-knighted - New York - Holocaust Survivor Celebrates 100th Birthday in Brooklyn
www.vosizneias.com/45865/eid/15863631 - 84-year-old founder of Dallas' City Ballet reveals identity she hid for years
www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/performingarts/stories/DN-brown_1220gd.ART.State.Edition2.4bade78.html - Neo-Nazis protest outside Jewish temple in Riverside
- WWII veteran had Hitler's art book on bookshelf
www.newsday.com/travel/wwii-veteran-had-hitler-s-art-book-on-bookshelf-1.1644739 - Holocaust: The Ignored Reality
www.nybooks.com/articles/22875 - Judge orders swastika tattoo of murder trial defendant covered by make-up
www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8710 - Holocaust museum will occupy stretch of Atlantic City boardwalk
www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/12/stretch_of_atlantic_city_board.html - See no evil
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1259831475249 - Stirring tribute for Steven Spielberg
www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i5d459dabd48db3c77353d7d66cd77f27 - Film to be shot about ‘Brazilian Schindler’
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/02/1009494/film-to-be-shot-about-brazilian-schindler - Brazilian teachers to study Shoah
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/15/1009733/brazilian-teachers-to-study-shoah - Sao Paulo sets Shoah Remembrance Day
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/15/1009743/sao-paulo-sets-shoah-remembrance-day - Tarantino to attend JTS screening of ‘Inglourious Basterds’
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/07/1009572/tarantino-to-attend-jts-screening-and-discusison-of-his-nazi-snuff-film - Studying the Holocaust behind bars (Forward)
- Missouri Governor Makes Appointments to Boards and Commissions
- State cuts funding for Shoa education
- Vegas teacher in class after alleged Holocaust denial
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/18/1009805/vegas-teacher-in-class-after-alleged-holocaust-denial - Teacher sent home after alleged Holocaust denial
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/21/1009805/vegas-teacher-in-class-after-alleged-holocaust-denial - Teacher can’t be fired for Holocaust denial
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/30/1009949/teacher-cant-be-fired-for-holocaust-denial - Facebook posting has swastika, peace signs
- Philly students dunked after Holocaust taunts
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/18/1009803/phillie-students-dunked-after-holocaust-taunts
- FYI… The Holocaust Survivor Cookbook is a collection of stories, recipes, and photos from Holocaust Survivors from all over the world which has raised a half million dollars for charities. "The demand for the cookbook has been overwhelming" says cookbook creator Joanne Caras, of Port St Lucie, Florida. “But now we are looking for even more stories so that our second cookbook can be as big and as good as the original. Anyone who is a Holocaust Survivor or who knows a Survivor whom they would like to honor can do so by sending us their story and one or two family recipes to include in the second volume of our cookbook. We would also ask them to send us a photo from the wartime as well as a more recent photo of the Survivor and their family." Stories, photos, and recipes can be sent to: survivorcookbook@aol.com
- FYI… To watch a short film on Coco Chanel during WWII: www.moviestorm.co.uk/community/index.php?page=videos§ion=view&vid_id=102269
- FYI… There are various trips / tours through sites in Holocaust history. These are just some (for informational purposes only):
-In the Footsteps of the Holocaust tour: June 12 – 24, 2010. Contact: kbrown@westga.edu
-Jewish-Christian Journey to Italy, July 5– July 13, 2010. Contact alukas@ursuline.edu
-Teens from around the world for Shalhevet: a Journey to Poland and Israel, April 7 -21, 2010.
Participants: 11th and 12th grade students. For more: mailto:ralperin@bjesf.org or go to http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102880166852&s=4615&e=001WpcnaWjl-vsCahFQTJtCJJhlgVYbSoUV2M3sVAEgGq5aXMMs47yRPzsBFeETVYEwsWKGCEMbMsSuzimIABFW1wNnfHfN2ImbtyymCXzPQaHQ76nG6zLgDGIjwqFyQximZwnBCjWOL-Y= - FYI… Zachor means remember...Our organization is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust. We provide students of Holocaust education programs with a ZACHOR pin, as a tangible reminder of what they have learned. For more info: (702) 949-9887, ZACHORFOUNDATION@AOL.COM, WWW.ZACHORFOUNDATION.ORG
- FYI… Project Alladin: A cultural and educational initiative to promote Jewish-Muslim dialogue based on mutual knowledge, mutual respect, and rejection of Holocaust denial and trivialization: www.tarikh.org and Aladdin Online Library www.aladdinlibrary.org .
- FYI… Second Generation Israel is an English speaking group for Children of Holocaust Survivors in the UK; a growing community meeting and maintaining contact with one another as well as actively participating in remembering the past through events, educational activities and fundraising. The group provides opportunities to connect with others with similar backgrounds. If you are interested, please contact: Nina Hecht & Tricia Wermuth at 972 (0) 54 245 4026 or secondgenerationisrael@yahoo.com. More at www.facebook.com/l/a040e;www.2ndgeneration.org.uk
- FYI… I am searching for the existence of a Hungarian version of a book by Eugene Heimler, about his experiences in Buchenwald called The Night of The Mist, published in English by Bodely Head in 1959. If you know of any journals which may have carried a Hungarian version of such a memoir or can suggest how I might find those who know of Mr. Heimler, please let me know. Any suggestions would be gratefully received. Simon O'Corra socorra@mac.com
Also: A gentile author with a keen interest in presenting a balanced view of the events of the middle of the twentieth century as they impacted on gay men is seeking funds and sources for his research. The project focuses on the Nazi Holocaust and the Gulags of Stalin's Russia. For more: socorra@mac.com - FYI… I am a journalist from Berlin tracking the fate of Mr. Alfred Traub (b. July 7, 1904) who died in a concentration camp in Poland. I am searching for his brother Edmund (b. 1894) who emigrated to Australia in 1938 and also for eyewitnesses from Majdanek, where Alfred was incarcerated from April-June 1942. Edmund lived on Gloucester Str., Prospect South Australia and could have children and grand children. I want to set a memorial stone in Berlin for the Traub family but many details are still unknown. ---Wolf Thieme WolfThieme@t-online.de
- FYI… From Noah Lederman, a 3G: For the past few years I've been writing my grandparents' story. It's called My Grandparents' Holocaust and it is the story of their survival intertwined with my efforts to uncover the past they had kept so secret. I have a blog, which features videos and excerpts from the book: www.mygrandparentsholocaust.blogspot.com
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