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Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
February 2010
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Dear Members and Friends,
We want to thank the members of the Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO) who have been so supportive of GSI. AHO members regularly send us program and other information and also share this newsletter with people interested in Holocaust education, commemoration and remembrance. Working together we are connecting the survivor community and the major Holocaust institutions / organizations / memorials / university programs. We have connected people who are searching for others and helped those who are looking for specific resources.
We have received several requests for speaker training information to help children and grandchildren of survivors speak publicly about the Shoah. The Generation After in Washington, DC has posted some information on its website that is freely available to everyone at www.genafterdc.com/GenAfterSpeakers.html. See the FYI section below for more.
Please remember to send in your Yom Hashoah commemoration program information as soon as possible. There are instructions for submissions in the box below.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
From the International Tracing Service (ITS)
The International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen has now finished digitising its documents from the post-war era concerning displaced persons and emigration after the end of World War II. “This part of the ITS archives has hardly been explored so far,” said Udo Jost, Head of the Archive Division. “It offers excellent insights into life after survival, as well as the wave of migration which resulted from the war.” The ITS forwarded copies of the documents to its partner organisations in Israel, the US, Poland, Luxembourg and Belgium.
The documents provide information on the fate of those who were rescued from concentration camps, forced labor and, in some cases, war captivity. This inventory specifically comprises documents from displaced persons camps in Germany, Austria, and Italy, as well as emigration lists, files and dossiers from refugee organizations such as the UNHCR, and lists of Holocaust survivors compiled by Jewish organizations. For more information: www.its-arolsen.org/en/press/press_pictures/index.html and www.its-arolsen.org/index.php?L=1&id=144
From Yad Vashem
From Yad Vashem
A new exhibition, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, opened at Yad Vashem on January 25, 2010 in the presence of the Prime Minister of Israel and diplomats of some 80 countries. Displayed alongside the original architectural sketches of Auschwitz are an aerial photo of the massive complex; the Vrba-Wetzler Report, written by two Jewish escapees from Auschwitz in 1944; an album displaying pictures of the camp’s construction and quotes from SS men and Jewish inmates describing the site and its murderous purposes. The exhibit will be on display in the Exhibitions Pavilion through February 28, 2010, after which parts of the exhibit will be displayed in the foyer of the Archives and Library Building. A traveling version of the exhibition opened at the UN Headquarters in New York on January 26, 2010 and will run through March 1st.
From the White House
www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/president-obama-65th-anniversary-liberation-auschwitz-and-birkenau
From the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission):
Statement on the 65th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
www.csce.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContentRecords.ViewDetail&ContentRecord_id=858&ContentRecordType=P&ContentType=P&CFID=27840939&CFTOKEN=25831672
From the USC Shoah Foundation Institute
Charles University Brings Testimonies to the Czech Republic
On Jan 29, Charles University hosted an event to launch the availability of the Visual History Archive. With the addition of Charles University, there are now 25 sites across the world where visitors can search and view all of the nearly 52,000 Holocaust eyewitness testimonies in the Institute’s Visual History Archive. Find an access site near you.
- Resources for Teachers
Testimony Clip Viewer
Explore 12 video clips from interviews with Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. The videos are organized by topics that include Hiding, Ghettos, and Liberation. - Pyramid of Hate classroom exercise
Help students understand how prejudice and intolerance can lead to genocide. This easy-to-use exercise integrates video testimony with the Pyramid of Hate exercise, a curricular tool developed by the Anti-Defamation League to encourage students to think about the impact their choices may have on the lives of others. The Pyramid of Hate exercise includes an online activity for students.
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Living Histories: Seven Voices from the Holocaust
Each of these video testimonies has been edited down to 30 minutes to fit in the classroom timeframe. Stream them directly from our website, or download them to your computer. Accompanying lessons, student activities, and discussion questions are included. -
Witnesses for Change: Stories of Liberation
Survivors and liberators share their personal stories of liberation in these short video clips, which can be streamed from our website or downloaded to your computer. -
Auschwitz: The Final Witness at Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles
International Holocaust Remembrance Day event organized by the Italian Consulate General and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles in collaboration with the President of the Council of Ministers of Italy, American Jewish Committee, USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, and COM.IT.ES, Los Angeles.
- Twelfth Annual Professional Development Conference
No Child’s Play - February 21, 2010 8:30 am – 3:00 pm
Pratt Mansion /Marymount School, New York, NY
1027 Fifth Avenue (between 83rd and 84th Streets) - Free but registration required: RSVP Tel: 212.220.4304, IApelker@yadvashemusa.org
- 11th Annual Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Conference for Educators:
Memory and Legacy: Memoirs and Diaries in Teaching History - March 4, 2010 4:00 – 8:00 pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY - Free of charge but reservations required. For more information, please see www.mjhnyc.org/teach_teachers_c.htm. RSVP by Feb. 18 to 646.437.4200 ext. 4505
- 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/
- 29th Annual Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference
- April 11-15, 2010
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana - For more: www.glhrc.org
- 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
- World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust
Annual Conference - November 5 – 7, 2010
Skokie, IL - For more information: www.wfjcsh.org/
- 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.
- 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.
- Using Eyewitness Testimonies—Echoes and Reflections:
A Multi-Media Curriculum (Secondary Educators) - March 11, 2010 8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, IL - Participants receive a FREE copy of Echoes and Reflections. No cost to attend. Advance registration required. Deadline to register is March 4, 2010:
www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/secondary_educators__full_day_workshops/285.php
Contact for more information: Call 847.967.4844 or email education@ilhmec.org.
- Moral Courage: A Workshop for Educators
- March 12, 2010 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Twin Lights I, Warner Student Life Center
Brookdale Community College, Lincroft NJ - For more information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/031210courage.pdf
- The Wannsee Conference: Planning the Holocaust
- March 15, 2010 8:30 am – 2:00 pm
Daly's, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ - For more information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/031510spring.pdf
- 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
- How to Identify & Deal with Stereotyping: A Workshop for Educators
- April 27, 2010 8:30 am – 3:00 pm
Busch Campus Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ - For more information: http://www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/042710st.pdf
- Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute for Educators
- July 6-9, 2010
Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX - To apply, download the application form at www.hmh.org/ed_kaplan.shtml. For more: www.hmh.org .
- Now - February 9, 2010 – Keene State University, Keene, NH
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945.
- Now - February 12, 2010 – of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Schindler
- Now - February 14, 2010 – South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
- The US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit:
- The United States 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 – February, 2010 – Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, Poland
- Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photographs of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman
Exhibition of photographs taken during two and half years as a partisan serving in eastern Poland (now Belarus) during the Second World War by Faye Schulman. www.galiciajewishmuseum.org
- Now - February, 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 - March 1, 2010 – United Nations Headquarters, 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. For more: www.un.org/holocaustremembrance/2010/index.shtml
- 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 – April 30, 2010 – Holocaust and Intolerance Museum of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Varian Fry, ASSIGNMENT: RESCUE, 1940-1941
- 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
- February 1, 2010 – University of Louisville, Kornhauser Health Science Library, Louisville, KY
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
- 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 2, 2010, 7:30 pm – Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
- Film: Pizza in Auschwitz follows Israeli Holocaust survivor Danny Chanoch as he attempts to brave a night in his old Auschwitz barracks with his reluctant adult children. Chanoch uses his unique brand of dark humor to relate his personal triumphs over adversity to his children and the generations that follow. Fees. For more information: www.sfjff.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, 5:00 – 7:00 pm—Hooray for Books, 1555 King Street, Alexandria, VA
- Eva Mozes Kor, co-author of Surviving the Angel of Death, will be signing books and giving a presentation at 6:00 pm. For more: www.hooray4books.com/ or 571-218-2066.
- 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 4, 2010, 7:00 pm – Weiner Library, London, England
- John Boyne on The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, chaired by Paul Salmons. The second lecture in the Library's Writing Wrongs: The Nazi Era in Fiction series. Admission is free, but spaces are limited. To reserve a place, please email the Library or call 020 7636 7247.
- February 4, 2010, 7:00 pm – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
- Irène Némirovsky and the “Jewish Question” in Interwar France: with Harvard professor and author Susan Rubin Suleiman. RSVP online at www.ushmm.org/events/shapirolecture.
- February 4, 2010, 7:30 pm – JCC East Bay Theater, Berkeley, CA
- Film: Pizza in Auschwitz follows Israeli Holocaust survivor Danny Chanoch as he attempts to brave a night in his old Auschwitz barracks with his reluctant adult children. Fees. For more: www.sfjff.org
- February 5 - March 28, 2010 – University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings.
- February 5, 2010, 9:30 am – Aaron Family JCC, Dallas, TX
- A Day to Remember: Elliott Dlin, Dallas Holocaust Museum Director, presents this special program about Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day. For more: Web site of the Center for Jewish Education
- 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 8 - 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 8, 2010, 7:00 pm – Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
- Two Plays by Ari Roth, directed by Will Pomerantz: Born Guilty and The Wolf in Peter. Born Guilty is a play based on the renowned book by the Austrian Jewish journalist Peter Sichrovsky. Roth adapted Sichrovsky's interviews with children of Nazi's / SS Officers, and chronicled the impact of this experience on Peter himself. RSVP: JillSeplowitz.Epic@gmail.com.
- February 8, 2010, 7:30 pm – Congregation Bnai Shalom, Walnut Creek, CA
- A Strategy for Combating the Phenomena of Holocaust Denial: Ephraim Kaye, Director of International Seminars at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, will lead a seminar to develop a strategy to combat what he terms the new anti-Semitism - Holocaust denial. For more: riva@jfed.org.
- February 9, 2010, 12 noon – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest Lunch & Learn with Holocaust survivor Ilka Sommer. Please bring a dairy lunch, beverage and cookies provided. For information and to RSVP, contact: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- 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 9, 2010, 8:15 pm – 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
- Philip Gourevitch and Jan Gross: Those Who Trespass Against Us: A Dialogue on Murderous Neighbors. For more: www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T-BL5CM11
- 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 – Room B35, Malet Street, London, England
- Italy's Divided Memory: World War Two 1940-1945. Professor John Foot (University College London) will be investigating the status of fascism, the war and the Holocaust in post-war Italian culture. First come, first seated basis. For more information visit our website.
- 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 – April 7, 2010 – Thiel College, Greenville, PA
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Schindler
- February 14, 2010, 10:30 am—Chai House – 814 Saint Elizabeth Drive, San Jose CA
- Silicon Valley Holocaust Survivor Association (San Jose, California) Monthly Brunch Free of charge- bring some food or a small donation. Volunteer and student Community Service opportunities are available. For more: drdschwarz@aol.com
- 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 17, 2010, 7:00 pm – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Holocaust Council of MetroWest Real to Reel Holocaust Film Series: About Face: The Story of the Jewish Refugee Soldiers of World War II, a documentary about German and Austrian refugees from the Nazi regime who fought with the Allied forces against Hitler. Light refreshments will follow. For information and to RSVP, contact: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.
- 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 18, 2010, 7:00 pm – Daniel M. Soref Community Hall, Marcus Pavilion, Harry & Rose Samson Family JCC, Milwaukee, WI
- Film: The Counterfeiters, based on the true story of the counterfeiting operation set up by the Nazis in 1936 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In German with subtitles. Neil Shafer, author and authority on world paper money, will lead a discussion and exhibit paper currency used in concentration camps during the Holocaust. For more: www.holocaustcentermilwaukee.org
- February 19 – April 25, 2010 – Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945.
- February 20 – 26, 2010 – San Francisco, CA
- 15th Annual East Bay International Jewish Film Festival. For more: info@hcnc.org or www.eastbayjewishfilm.org/.
- February 21, 2010, 1:30 pm – Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
- The Arts Meets Social Services: David Chack, President, Association for Jewish Theatre and David Bier, MSW, Consultant, Holocaust Community Services, discuss excerpts from Number of People by Emilie Beck, as performed by Bernard Beck of the Piven Theatre. Attendees will receive a voucher for a complimentary ticket to see the premiere production of the play. Free with Museum admission. Reservations recommended. For more: 847.967.4889 or email Lillian.gerstner@ilhmec.org
- February 21, 2010, 7:00 pm – Studio Movie Grill, 11170 North Central Expressway, Dallas, TX
- Dallas Holocaust Museum Survivor/Speaker Max Glauben will be recognized for his lifelong efforts to educate our youth about the Holocaust. The event will feature a screening of Max's new half-hour documentary, Plagues of the Soul, which follows him on his mission of talking with school children about the Holocaust. For information: March of the Living web site.
- 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 23, 2010, 7:00 pm – Hughes-Trigg Student Center, SMU, Dallas, TX
- History to Move Texans Forward: This free public forum will explore the purpose and passion behind the creation of the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission. For more information call 214-741-7500, or visit us on the web at www.dallasholocaustmuseum.org
- 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, 11:00 am – Wiener Library, London, England
- The Wiener Library at Jewish Book Week: Ben Barkow, Director of The Wiener Library, and Dr Klaus Leist will discuss their new publication, As If It Were Life: A WWII Diary From the Theresienstadt Ghetto. For more information: Jewish Book Week website.
- 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 1, 2010, 1:00 pm – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
- Reading the Signs of the Time: Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–38. Editors Jürgen Matthäus and Mark Roseman and Museum survivor volunteers will present a reading and discussion of the diaries, letters, and other materials gathered in the first volume. RSVP online at www.ushmm.org/events/jewishresponses .
- 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 3, 2010, 7:00 pm – Daniel M. Soref Community Hall, Marcus Pavilion, Harry & Rose Samson Family JCC, Milwaukee, WI
- Film: The Ritchie Boys, a documentary that follows the lives of an elite group of German Jewish immigrants who formed a U.S. intelligence unit to fight the Nazis during World War II. Retired Col. Philip Freund, child survivor from Germany, will lead a talk back after the film. For more: www.holocaustcentermilwaukee.org
- 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 4, 2010, 6:30 pm – Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
- Dr. Elliot Lefkovitz, Loyola University and Spertus Institute faculty member, discusses The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner, by Dina Porat, the 2009 recipient of the Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg Memorial Award in Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir. Free with Museum admission. Reservations recommended. For more information: Call 847.967.4889 or email Lillian.gerstner@ilhmec.org
- March 6 – 21, 2010 – Essex & Morris counties, NJ
- 10th Annual New Jersey Jewish Film Festival. For more: www.njjff.org
- March 6 – 30, 2010 – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
- Multimedia exhibition: Art Not Hate. Public reception March 14th from 4 – 6 pm. Fees. For more: www.flholocaustmuseum.org/
- March 8, 2010, 5:30 pm – Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, IL
- 2010 Humanitarian Awards Dinner Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center welcomes keynote speaker Tom Brokaw, NBC News Special Correspondent, and honors Jeffrey S. Aronin, Chairman & CEO, Paramount Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Fritzie Fritzshall, Holocaust survivor, educator and activist; and David B. Speer, Chairman & CEO, ITW. Dietary laws observed. Reservations required. For more information 847.967.4852 or www.ilholocaustmuseum.org
- 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 9, 2010, 7:00 pm – Navesink Room, Warner Student Life Center, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ
- Performance: Etty. Using only Etty Hillesum’s words, Susan Stein’s adaption brings us to 1943 when Etty, a 29-year-old Dutch Jew, is about to be deported to Auschwitz. Etty’s words reach out from the Holocaust and allow us to see the power of hope and individual thought in the most extreme circumstances. Fees. For more: nsherman@brookdalecc.edu, www.holocaustbcc.org
- 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 11, 2010, 7:30 pm – Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center, New Brunswick, NJ
- Hollywood and the Holocaust with Steven Alan Carr, Department of Communication, Indiana University–Purdue University; Stuart Klawans, Film critic, The Nation and Alan Mintz, Chana Kekst Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature, The Jewish Theological Seminary. Free and open to the public. Please RSVP by March 1 to csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu or call 732-932-2033. For more information, please see http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/
- 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 14, 2010, 2:00 pm – Daniel M. Soref Community Hall, Marcus Pavilion, Harry & Rose Samson Family JCC, Milwaukee, WI
- Film: Defiance, drama depicts the incredible but true story of the Bielski brothers, who against all odds during World War II survived in the forest, fought the Germans, and saved almost 1,200 Jewish lives. For more: www.holocaustcentermilwaukee.org
- 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 16, 2010, 7:00 pm – Daniel M. Soref Community Hall, Marcus Pavilion, Harry & Rose Samson Family JCC, Milwaukee, WI
- Film: Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans tells the true stories of those brave men and women whose circumstances enabled them to make the decision to fight back. Following the film, meet local Holocaust survivors who escaped the Nazis by living with the partisans. For more: www.holocaustcentermilwaukee.org
- 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.
- March 18, 2010, 7:00 pm – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
- “Jewish Revenge”? Soviet Jewish officers’ encounters with Germany, 1945 with Oleg Budnitskii of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Academic Director of the International Center for Russian and Eastern European Jewish Studies in Moscow, and Professor of History in the Department of Jewish Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University. RSVP online at www.ushmm.org/events/levinelecture.
- March 21, 2010, 1:30 pm – Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
- Film: Miracle at Moreaux, the story of children helping Jewish children flee France during the Holocaust, and an introduction to related subject matter in the exhibit, Saving the Little Brown Monkey: The True Wartime Escape of Margret & H.A. Rey. Free with Museum admission. Reservations recommended. For more call 847.967.4889 or email Lillian.gerstner@ilhmec.org
- March 26 – June 20, 2010 – Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
- Exhibit: Saving the Little Brown Monkey: The True Wartime Escape of Margret & H.A. Rey. Many Americans are familiar with the characters of Curious George and the Man With the Yellow Hat, but few know that the Jewish creators of these stories had to flee Paris to escape the Nazi invasion. The exhibit is based in part on the 2005 book, The Journey that Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey, written by Louise Borden, illustrated by Allan Drummond. For more: 847.967.4889 or email Lillian.gerstner@ilhmec.org
- April 1, 2010, 7:30 pm – University Center, Little Theater, Kean University, Union, NJ
- Conversation with architect Daniel Liebeskind and Samuel Norich, Publisher, The Forward. Free and open to the public. Suggested donation. For more information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/0401041510Libeskind.pdf
- April 5, 2010, 11:00 am – Temple Solel, 3575 Manchester Ave, Cardiff by the Sea, CA
- Holocaust Survivor, Rita Ross, Author of Running from Home, describes how her heroic mother saved her and her young brother from the Nazis. For more www.ritabross.com
- April 7 – June 2, 2010 – The National World War II Museum, New Orleans, LA
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings.
- April 7, 2010, 7:00 pm – East Brunswick Performing Arts Center in
Hammarskjold Middle School, 200 Rues Lane, East Brunswick, NJ - Performance by Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company featuring selections from the Legacy Project commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) and celebrating Jewish culture. For tickets and information, call (732) 613-6985 or email Jeff Lesser at jlesser@ebnet.org.
- April 8, 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.
- April 11, 2010, 2:00 pm – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ
- Screening of No. 4 Street of Our Lady, a documentary film depicting 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 and to RSVP, please contact holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or call 973-929-3194.
- April 11, 2010, 3:00 pm – Wilkins Theater, Kean University, Union, NJ
- Performance by Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company: The Legacy Project, a celebrated body of works that honors Dorfman’s Eastern European Jewish roots as a daughter of Holocaust survivors. For more: www.cddc.info. For tickets: http://keanstage.com/buytickets.html
- April 11, 2010, 4:00 pm (Dor L'Dor, 3:00 pm) – B'nai Israel Congregation, Rockville, MD
- Preceded by Dor L’ Dor Youth Program and for adults Unto Every Person There is a Name. Community-Wide Memorial Observance: Yom Ha Shoah v'Hagvurah Holocaust Heroes and Martyrs Day with guest speaker Eli Rosenbaum, Director of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations. For more: 301-77-0881
- April 11, 2010, 7:00 pm – JCC on the Palisades, 411 Clinton Ave, Tenafly, NJ
- Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration with keynote speaker Professor Mordechai Pakliel. Free. For more information, or to register, please call 201.408.1458. www.jccotp.org/category.aspx?catid=101#2926
- April 11, 2010, 7:00 pm – Beth El Hebrew Congregation, Alexandria, VA
- Preceded by Dor L’ Dor Youth Program and for adults Unto Every Person There is a Name. Community-Wide Memorial Observance: . April 11, 2010: Yom Ha'Shoah v'Hagvurah: Holocaust Heroes and Martyrs Day
- April 11, 2010, 7:00 pm – Congregation Shearith Israel, Dallas, TX
- Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day. Directions
- April 12, 2010, 12:00 noon – Newark, NJ
- State of New Jersey Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration, Continuing the Legacy, featuring state dignitaries and memorial candle-lighting ceremony, sponsored by The New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education and The Office of the Governor. Free; community welcome. For information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/041210yom.pdf
- April 12, 2010, 7:15 pm – Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, New Brunswick, NJ
- Middlesex County Annual Commemoration of the Holocaust & Heroism: Children of the Holocaust. For more information call 732 432 7711 ext. 23 or see: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/030910essay.pdf
- April 13, 2010, 4:00 – 5:00 pm – Santa Clara County Government Building- Board of Supervisors Chambers, San Jose, CA
- Santa Clara County Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony. For more: drdschwarz@aol.com
- April 15, 2010, 7:30 pm – University Center, Little Theater, Kean University, Union, NJ
- Not a Silent Generation: Post-War American Jews and the Memory of the Holocaust, a lecture by Professor Hasia Diner, Director, NYU Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History. Free and open to the public. Suggested donation. For more information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/0401041510Libeskind.pdf
- April 17, 2010, 2:00 pm – Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
- Free concert with commentary: Sparks of Glory: Rodas Recordada
- April 19 – May 31, 2010 – Garland County Public Library, Hot Springs, AR
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Schindler.
- April 22, 2010, 6:00 pm – Mortara Building, 3600 N Street, NW, Washington, DC
- Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World with Professor Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland. The ideological collaboration between pro-Nazi Arab exiles and German officials in Berlin was part of the longer history of radical Islamism and the shift in the center of gravity of anti-Semitism after World War II from Europe to the Middle East. RSVP required.
- April 7, 2010, 7:00 pm – East Brunswick Performing Arts Center in
Hammarskjold Middle School, 200 Rues Lane, East Brunswick, NJ - Performance by Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company featuring selections from the Legacy Project commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) and celebrating Jewish culture. For tickets and information, call (732) 613-6985 or email Jeff Lesser at jlesser@ebnet.org.
- April 11, 2010, 4:00 pm (Dor L'Dor, 3:00 pm) – B'nai Israel Congregation, Rockville, MD
- Preceded by Dor L’ Dor Youth Program and for adults Unto Every Person There is a Name. Community-Wide Memorial Observance: Yom Ha Shoah v'Hagvurah Holocaust Heroes and Martyrs Day with guest speaker Eli Rosenbaum, Director of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations. For more: 301-77-0881
- April 11, 2010, 7:00 pm – JCC on the Palisades, 411 Clinton Ave, Tenafly, NJ
- Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration with keynote speaker Professor Mordechai Pakliel. Free. For more information, or to register, please call 201.408.1458. www.jccotp.org/category.aspx?catid=101#2926
- April 11, 2010, 7:00 pm – Beth El Hebrew Congregation, Alexandria, VA
- Preceded by Dor L’ Dor Youth Program and for adults Unto Every Person There is a Name. Community-Wide Memorial Observance: . April 11, 2010: Yom Ha'Shoah v'Hagvurah: Holocaust Heroes and Martyrs Day
- April 11, 2010, 7:00 pm – Congregation Shearith Israel, Dallas, TX
- Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day. Directions
- April 12, 2010, 12:00 noon – Newark, NJ
- State of New Jersey Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration, Continuing the Legacy, featuring state dignitaries and memorial candle-lighting ceremony, sponsored by The New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education and The Office of the Governor. Free; community welcome. For information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/041210yom.pdf
- April 12, 2010, 7:15 pm – Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, New Brunswick, NJ
- Middlesex County Annual Commemoration of the Holocaust & Heroism: Children of the Holocaust. For more information call 732 432 7711 ext. 23 or see: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/030910essay.pdf
- April 13, 2010, 4:00 – 5:00 pm – Santa Clara County Government Building- Board of Supervisors Chambers, San Jose, CA
- Santa Clara County Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony. For more: drdschwarz@aol.com
FYI: For your information
- FYI… The family of Rachel Margolis released to the media a letter from five members of the US Congress to the Prime Minister of Lithuania concerning the continuing defamation of Holocaust Survivors who joined the anti-Nazi resistance. The letter can be read here: www.holocaustinthebaltics.com/2009Dec3USCongressProtestsOnMargolis.pdf
- FYI… For information on these websites:
Holocaust in the Baltics: www.holocaustinthebaltics.com
Museum of Family History (a virtual museum): www.museumoffamilyhistory.com
Footnote is a history site. The Holocaust section is a collaboration of the National Archives and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Information is searchable by name and content.
Note: there are fees for some of the services provided and only a fraction of the existing documentation is available online. For more: http://go.footnote.com/holocaust/ - FYI… From 2G Martin Kent: The purpose of my website is to inspire others to dig into their family histories, and discover their own legacies. http://yearslaterwewouldremember.com/
- FYI… The New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, after conversations with many survivors, has decided to establish a Virtual Wall of Remembranceon our web site (www.state.nj.us/njded/holocaust ) which will list those who perished during the Holocaust, those who survived, along with stories and photographs. This will be a “Virtual Wall” in the modern technological world, with the ability to be viewed by the thousands of people who enter our site. For more information and to participate: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/wall/
- FYI… The latest edition of the Remember Newsletter, published by the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education is available at: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/news_topics_issues/newsletter/win09-10.pdf
- FYI… The Monuments Men year end newsletter is online: www.monumentsmen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Monuments-Men-Newsletter-Year-End-2009.pdf
- FYI… The Generation After in Washington, DC has a new web address: www.genafterdc.com. There is some very basic information on 2G / 3G speaker training available at www.genafterdc.com/GenAfterSpeakers.html. This site will be updated periodically.
- FYI… Silicon Valley Holocaust Survivor Association has monthly brunches on the 2nd Sunday of every month from 10:30 am until 1:00 pm at the Chai House, 814 Saint Elizabeth Drive, San Jose CA. Programs include music, lectures, dancing, movies, holiday celebrations, parties, family stories and connecting with people from your country of origin. Bring food or a small donation. For more information: js95120@gmail.com , (408)268-6865 or drdschwarz@aol.com
- FYI… The Normandy Invasion, also known as D-Day, took place on June 6, 1944. It was very welcome news to the Jews in Europe. Those who heard of this action, including Anne Frank and her family, were elated. After the German defeat at Stalingrad, this major decisive action by the Allies encouraged the belief that the war would finally end in their favor. The Holocaust Council of MetroWest is interested in knowing what, if anything, survivors knew about that event at the time. Please answer these specific questions: Where were you on D-Day? When and how did you learn of it? Who were you with? What was your reaction and the reaction of those around you? Did knowing the Allies landed help you believe you would survive? Did this knowledge encourage you to resist the terrible conditions? Please send your answers, along with your name and country of origin, to: ljdranikoff1@verizon.net or ebearg@aol.com
- FYI… From Yad Vashem: Veronica Zer (nee Rudas) last saw her second cousin Lili Reiter in 1945 when she returned to Hungary after surviving Auschwitz, where her mother and younger sister perished. The two cousins, who had lost touch with one another soon after, when they went their separate ways to rebuild their lives, were recently reunited thanks to a Page of Testimony. The two cousins had an emotional reunion in Israel where they visited Yad Vashem's Hall of Remembrance and Valley of the Communities. Click here to read the article.
- FYI… To watch the video of Holocaust survivor Helen Covensky's exhibition at the Arts Club of Washington, go to http://helencovensky.org/video.php
- FYI… The theme for the 2010 Sister Rose Thering Endowment Essay Contest for New Jersey high school students is How does Sister Rose’s Passion relate to an Experience in your Life? The deadline for all entries is March 1, 2010. For more information and application: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/030110thering.pdf
- FYI… The deadline for the Middlesex County, NJ Annual Commemoration of the Holocaust & Heroism 2010 Essay Contest for students in grades 7-12 is March 9, 2010. For more information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/030910essay.pdf
- FYI… Jason Marquis of the Washington Nationals baseball team is a grandchild of Holocaust survivors. “My mother was stricter with our Jewish upbringing," said Marquis, “given that her parents were Holocaust survivors." For more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Marquis#Early_life
- FYI… … Legacy is an organization whose stated purpose is to try to help people recover property in Poland and Eastern Europe. Meetings will be held in the New York area in February and March. For more: property.retrieval@gmail.com, staub@actcom.com or www.polishlegacy.org
- 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. Contact for more information: Call 847.967.4842 or email contest@ilhmec.org - FYI… … Jack Tager, retired UMass Professor, has an online Holocaust art exhibit: http://jacktager.org/default.aspx
- FYI… Opening off-Broadway in February: Signs of Life, the story of a young girl who comes of age in the Czech ghetto Terezin, rechristened Theresienstadt by the Nazis. Once she and her friends and family realize what lies in store for them, they begin to discover that some truths might be worth dying for. For tickets: www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/425, promo code AMAS for discount. For more about Signs of Life, please see terezinsings.org and / or terezinmusical.com. To hear music from the show, go to joelderfner.com/music and check the sidebar on the right.
- 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.
- Don't let Holocaust be rewritten out of history
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- Claims Conference: Half of old-age Holocaust survivors live in poverty
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- Leading Dutch Ministers Look Back on End-of-Century Holocaust-Assets Restitution
- The Neediest Cases: Surviving the Camps but Struggling in Brooklyn
- Leader of German anti-Nazi resistance dies at 98
- Freya von Moltke, Part of a Core of Nazi Resistance, Is Dead at 98
- Czech government in new attempt to have neo-Nazi party banned
- Anne Frank’s helper, Miep Gies, dies aged 100
- LETTER: A legacy sure to inspire for years, 01-15-10
- Dr. Henry P. David, 86
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR201... - Influential German Jewish journalist Ernst Cramer dies at 97
- Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Jewish Poet and Partisan, Dies
- Holocaust museum shooter dies
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- Survivors, World Leaders Mark 65th Anniversary of Liberation of Auschwitz
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- Can Auschwitz be Saved?
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- Auschwitz victims mourned on 65th anniversary
www.unitedjerusalem.org/index2.asp?id=1326315 - Kor’s return to Auschwitz shows ‘human spirit cannot be defeated’
www.tribstar.com/local/local_story_025233254.html - Auschwitz Trip: Remembering Not to Forget
- For Mengele survivor Eva Kor, forgiveness is freedom
- Evolution of Int'l Holocaust Day reflects changing times
- Bibi at Auschwitz: Ready to fight new Amalek
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- Added Issue in Recalling Holocaust in Italy
- British TUC calls for end to discrimination and hatred on Holocaust Memorial Day
www.tuliponline.org/?p=1461 - Turkey vows to stop anti-Semitism
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http://jta.org/news/article/2010/01/28/1010378/brazils-lula-impossible-to-deny-holocaust - The Holocaust's untended graves
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012903406_pf.html - Wiesel warns on Iran, raps wartime pope
http://jta.org/news/article/2010/01/28/1010385/wiesel-warns-against-iran-pope - Auschwitz Sign Theft Linked to Far-Right Terrorist Plot
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/01/01/auschwitz-sign-theft-linked-to-far-right-terrorist-plot - Poland requests Sweden’s help in Auschwitz case
http://jta.org/news/article/2010/01/05/1010009/poland-requests-swedens-help-in-auschwitz-case - Former Swedish neo-Nazi confirms involvement in Auschwitz sign robbery
- Report: British collector commissioned neo-Nazis to steal Auschwitz sign
- Auschwitz Museum dismisses security guard over theft of ‘Arbeit macht frei’ sign
- Auschwitz remains a symbol
- Catholic bishop from Poland accuses Jews of exploiting Holocaust
- After Pius move, Pope Benedict practices delicate Jewish dance
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/31/1009976/pope-dances-with-the-jews - Report: Misinformation Campaign by Pope Pius XII Apologists
www.adl.org/main_Interfaith/Campagna_Bishop_Archives_O%27Shea.htm - Former Israeli chief rabbi urges Pope Benedict to stop Pius XII beatification
- Law.com: 9th Circuit Rejects Holocaust Survivors' Suit Against Vatican
- Holocaust survivors want chief rabbi to raise Pius XII beatification with Pope Benedict
- Jewish leaders confront Pope over Vatican's Holocaust 'silence' - Telegraph
- At Rome's Great Synagogue, Pope Benedict says Vatican helped Jews during Shoah
- Pope seeks to mend ties in synagogue visit
- Holocaust-denying bishop sheds doubts on Israel’s legitimacy
- Bishop Williamson charged with Holocaust denial in Germany
- Israel turns down bid to honor Poland’s Catholic nuns-rescuers
www.polishnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1231:israel-turns-down-bid-to-honor-polands-catholic-nuns-rescuers-&catid=83:wiadomoci-ze-wiata-news-from-around-the-world&Itemid=200 - Open the Vatican archives
- Rabbi to the rescue: Recovering and restoring the Torahdt>
- Is the Holocaust Torah rabbi a fraud?
http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2010/01/25/1010309/is-the-holocaust-torah-rabbi-a-fraud- Op-Ed Contributor: Liberation From Auschwitz
- Arab Israeli's Auschwitz Visit Raises Criticism
- Jerusalem - Institute Presents 36 Short Video Interviews with Holocaust Survivors
www.vosizneias.com/45940/eid/68010665- 'Voyage of Damned' survivors remember
- Dutch couple posthumously honored for sheltering Jews
- Demjanjuk defense lawyers call for another postponement of Munich trial
- Sobibor survivor testifies in Demjanjuk trial
http://jta.org/news/article/2010/01/19/1010230/sobibor-survivor-testifies-in-demjanjuk-trial- Is justice possible? Survivors say it's not so simple
- Surviving Mengele
- Refuge in the Krakow Ghetto
http://www.jewishmag.co.il/140mag/krakow_ghetto/krakow_ghetto.htm- Out of Auschwitz
www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/opinion/29pisar.html- Engrossing memoir details harrowing story of survival
http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=27&SubSectionID=25&ArticleID=12038&TM=20533.77- A Very Special Visit Home (A Return to Germany)
www.pass.to/tgmegillah/nfeatures.asp?id=283- Holocaust survivor dies, leaves 2,500 descendants
http://jta.org/news/article/2010/01/05/1010014/holocaust-survivor-leaves-2500-descendants- Rights group: Barring women’s event recalls Berlin Games
http://jta.org/news/article/2010/01/06/1010036/rights-group-barring-womens-event-recalls-berlin-games- Crete’s only synagogue nearly burnt down in anti-Semitic attack
- Attack on Crete synagogue carries special meaning
- Evil in the everyday With Fiennes as guest, Holocaust museum explores the Shoah as subject of film
- Introducing the Shoah
- UPDATE: Rabbi cites pattern of bias after discovery of swastika at library in Edison
www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200912301221/NEWS/91230028- Troubling issues in schools
- Holocaust expert down the hall
- Library that helped bring Nazis to justice to relocate
- Documentary reveals Auschwitz horror through survivors' memories
www.kansascity.com/637/story/1707357.html- Long march to freedom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8475000/8475370.stm- Auschwitz Survivor Teams up With Rap Band - ABC News
- Auschwitz Survivor Drops Hip-Hop Beats
- Holocaust-themed book being distributed to Russian teens
http://jta.org/news/article/2010/01/25/1010298/jeiwsh-themed-book-distributed-to-russian-youth- Teen's book tells grandmother's Holocaust tale
- Study: Teaching Holocaust common denominator in Israel
http://jta.org/news/article/2010/01/27/1010350/study-teaching-holocaust-common-denominator-in-israel- Collecting Jewish stories (Wall Street Journal)
- A book's inscription and Jewish tragedy
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-serrota27-2010jan27,0,3195213.story- Holocaust teaching must address human rights, EU agency says in new report
- Make Holocaust teaching relevant
- Holocaust exhibit comes to Georgetown library
- Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg vandalized
- A bizarre choice?
- Neo-Nazis Use Deceptive Music Downloads to Attract Young People to White Supremacy
www.adl.org/PresRele/NeoSk_82/5681_82.htm - Is the Holocaust Torah rabbi a fraud?
- FYI… To watch video news stories:
Auschwitz survivors try to save crumbling concentration camp http://www.kens5.com/news/world/Survivors-try-to-save-crumbling-concentration-camp-82724062.html - Auschwitz: 65 Years Later - AOL Video
- FYI… To read a paper on the penetration of Iran by Nazi antisemitism in the 1940s: Iranian Antisemitism: Stepchild of German National Socialism by Matthias Küntzel http://israelcfr.com/documents/4-9-Matthias-Kuntzel.pdf
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