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Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter
March 2010
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Dear Members and Friends,
GSI continues to grow thanks to your help and support. Welcome to all our new members!

We would especially like to welcome the many new members of our GSI Facebook group. As that group grows it will offer the survivor community yet another way to network and communicate. Members can ask questions, look for friends and relatives, post recommendations for books and films, or just talk to each other directly. Join the over 500 members of our online group! Help us spread the word about this to other members of the survivor community. It is free and easy to participate. For information on joining see the box below. Please sign yourself up rather than asking us to “friend” you. We sincerely thank Aaron Biterman, Administrator of the Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors Facebook group, for all his help and support.

The FYI section below contains information about an exciting new program developed by 3GNY called We Educate (WEDU). We are proud of the pioneering work these grandchildren of survivors are doing and also proud of the contributions made by Dan Brooks, Coordinator of 3GNY and member of the GSI Coordinating Council.

Please remember to send in your Yom Hashoah commemoration program information as soon as possible. There are instructions for submissions in the box below.

Generations of the Shoah International (GSI)

Membership in our interactive leadership listserv is open to leaders / representatives of landsmanschaft groups. If your local survivor, second generation or third generation group has not yet delegated a representative to join the GSI interactive online discussion / listserv group, please join us now. We already have dozens of members throughout the US and from other countries. This global interactive listserv is the fastest way to reach the survivor community should issues / concerns arise: gsi@genshoah.org.

For event submissions: www.genshoah.org/contact_gsi.html. Please fill out the information requested in the text areas and submit it to us at gsi@genshoah.org. Kindly do not to wait until the last minute. Send us your information later than the 23^rd of the month month if you wish for it to appear in the upcoming month’s issue.

Visit our GSI website at www.genshoah.org for updated information on new books, films, helpful links to Holocaust-related organizations and institutions, etc. Survivors, their children and grandchildren are welcome to post contact information for their local groups on our website.

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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ANNOUNCEMENTS

From the Claims Conference
Announcement Regarding the Hardship Fund
www.claimscon.org/?url=hardship/annoucement-021110
Note: There are articles on this story in the FYI section below.

From the International Tracing Service (ITS)
in Bad Arolsen, Germany Digitisation of Correspondence Underway
Work has commenced on the digitalisation of case correspondence. Around three million files of correspondence between the tracing service, public authorities and the victims of national socialist persecution as well as their family members are to be digitised over the next few years. “Together with the original documents from the Nazi era, the correspondence cases offer a concise account of individual fates,” said Udo Jost, Head of the Archive Division at ITS. “They take the puzzle pieces from the documents, which are often only fragmentary, and assemble them to an overall picture.” For more: www.its-arolsen.org/en/press/press_releases/index.html

The latest ITS newsletter is online: http://www.its-arolsen.org/index.php?L=1&id=144

From the Holocaust Era Assets Conference (Prague)
The website has been updated. To read the panel presentations during the Special Session Caring for Victims of Nazism and Their Legacy go to www.holocausteraassets.eu/en/working-groups/special-session/ and click on the topic of your choice. Note: the only person from the survivor community speaking on behalf of the survivors was GSI’s Esther Toporek Finder, President of The Generation After in Washington, DC. See panel 3 on this site. From Yad Vashem
The new issue of "Teaching the Legacy: e-Newsletter for Holocaust Educators" includes articles on women and resistance and women who served as couriers. A teacher's guide on Dan Pagis' most famous poem is also included. As always, we carry updates on what's new at Yad Vashem and at the International School for Holocaust Studies.

From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States’ 2010 Holocaust Days of Remembrance are April 11-18. Mandated by Congress to lead the nation in Holocaust remembrance, the Museum has designated Stories of Freedom: What You Do Matters as this year’s theme. Explore how you can organize a Holocaust Remembrance Day in your community. Learn more »

A 65-year search ends in a tearful reunion:
http://web.ushmm.org/site/c.fuIXLbMSJxE/b.5763141/k.9D1C/Renate_Grossman.htm?auid=5850737

The Power of Film and the Holocaust: More »

Police learn from Holocaust history

Podcasts: Speaking to the World about Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Genocide
READ MORE »

The Mantello rescue mission: Businessman turned diplomat creates El Salvadoran citizenship certificates to save Jews during the Holocaust. MORE »

From the US Congress
A Holocaust Insurance bill was introduced in Congress by Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: http://foreignaffairs.republicans.house.gov/apps/list/press/foreignaffairs_rep/020410HolocaustBill.shtml To see the full text of HR 4596: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.4596

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

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

40^th 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/

29^th 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

Seventh International Conference on Holocaust Education: June 12 – 13, 2010
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
For more: international.conference@yadvashem.org.il

The Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators: June 27 – 29, 2010; US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
To apply see: www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/prodev/belfer/

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/

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS

Seminar – The White Rose Resistance: German Youths Protest Against the Third Reich: March 4, 11, 18, and 25, 2010 4 – 6 p.m.
University Center Room 104, Drew University, Madison, NJ
Facilitator: Ruth B. Melon, D.Litt. Registration fee. 8 professional development credits. For more information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/030411182510wr.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: Call 847.967.4844 or email education@ilhmec.org. www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/secondary_educators__evening_workshops/286.php

Online Seminar - Holocaust and Human Behavior: Facing History and Ourselves, Lesley University, MA; March 4 – April 28, 2010

Echoes and Reflections Workshop: March 8, 2010 9:00 am - 2:30 pm
Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center (2nd floor library)
Richard Stockton College of NJ, Pomona, NJ
Presenter: Shulamit Imber of Yad Vashem. Free, including copy of Echoes and Reflections guide and video testimonies for classroom use. For more information and registration, see www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/030810echoes.pdf

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. No charge, includes a free copy of Echoes and Reflections: a Multi-Media Curriculum on the Holocaust and dinner. 4 professional credits available. For more 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
Includes free copy of Echoes and Reflections. Advance registration by March 4: www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/secondary_educators__full_day_workshops/285.php No charge. 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

Educator’s Workshop The Creative Use of Film in the Teaching of the Holocaust: Meeting the Needs of Students in a Visually-Oriented Society: March 25, 2010 3:30 p.m. – 8:00 pm
Cumberland County College, Vineland, NJ
For more information: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/032510film.pdf

Teaching the Holocaust: A 5-Day Study Seminar in Berlin, Germany for American Educators: March 28, 2010 – April 2, 2010; Berlin, Germany
For more information: easton-calabria@gedenkstaette-sachsenhausen.de

Teaching and Learning About Genocide Perpetrated in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Content, Approaches, Resources (Secondary Educators): April 15, 2010 8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
Advance registration required. Deadline to register is April 1, 2010: www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/secondary_educators__full_day_workshops/285.php Contact for more information: 847.967.4844 or email education@ilhmec.org.

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

Gumpert Teachers’ Workshop Rescue & Resistance in Genocide: Ramapo College, Trustees Pavilion, Mahwah, NJ
May 17, 2010 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Keynote speaker: Mordecai Paldiel, Former Director of the Department of the Righteous at Yad Vashem. No charge, 5 professional credits available. For information: holgen@ramapo.edu

2010 Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for University Faculty Jewish Responses to the Holocaust: Teaching the Victims’ Perspective: June 2 – 15, 2010
US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
For more information: www.ushmm.org/research/center

Workshop for Educators: June 7 – 11, 2010
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, Abilene, KS
For more: www.eisenhower.archives.gov/Teacher_Workshop_2010/Workshop.html

Committee on Churches and the Holocaust 2010 Seminar for Seminary Faculty and Professors of Religious Studies Rescuers and Bystanders during the Holocaust: The Historical Significance of Morality and Complicity: June 21- 25, 2010
US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

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 .

UPCOMING EVENTS

Now – 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.

Now – March 21, 2010 – Marjorie S. Dean Little Theatre, 5 W. 63rd Street, New York, NY: Play: Signs of Life about Theresienstadt, Hitler’s “City for the Jews”. For information and tickets: 212-352-3101

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 - 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.

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 7, 2010 – Thiel College, Greenville, PA: US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Schindler

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 25, 2010 – Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN: US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945.

Now – April 25, 2010 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX: Exhibit: The Book of Memoryfeaturing the work of Mexican artist Bela Gold. For more information: www.hmh.org.

Now – April 30, 2010 – ITOW Veterans Museum, 805 W. Main, Perham, MN: Questionable Issue: Currency of the Holocaust. The Nazis made it illegal for residents of the camps and ghettos to have hard currency and required that money be “exchanged” for scrip. For information call 218-346-7676 or visit www.ITOWmuseum.org.

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 2, 2010 – Penn State University, HUB-Robeson Galleries, University Park, PA: The US Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibit: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race.

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. 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. 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

March 1, 2010 – United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY: Exhibits: Generations: a Life History Exhibition and Architecture of Murder: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Blueprints. For more: www.un.org/holocaustremembrance/2010/index.shtml

March 1, 2010, 1:00 pm – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

March 1, 2010, 7:00 pm – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX: From Swastika to Jim Crow with filmmaker Stephen Fischler followed by personal commentary from Dr. Sarah Trotty, Associate Professor of Art, Texas Southern University. Registration required: www.hmh.org/RegisterEvent.aspx.

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 – 6, 2010 – Film Forum, 209 W Houston St, New York, NY: Film: Harlan: In The Shadow of 'Jew Süss', a portrait of the one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious filmmakers and an examination of World War II film history. For more information: www.filmforum.org; www.zeitgeistfilms.com/

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, 6:00 pm – 657 Mission Street #300, San Francisco, CA: Commemorating the homosexual victims of the Holocaust, The Pink Triangle Project: Suppressed, Silenced and Shunned: The story of the Pink Triangle Prisoners in Hitler's Reich. Public lecture presented by Dr. Susan Eischeid GLBT Historical Society. For more: info@hcnc.org.

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. Free with Museum admission. Reservations recommended. For more information: Call 847.967.4889 or email Lillian.gerstner@ilhmec.org

March 4, 2010, 7:00 pm – Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St, New York, NY: Goebbels in Arabia: How Nazi Antisemitism Found a Home in the Middle East. Professor Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland, discusses his new book, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World. Fees. For more about the program: www.programs.cjh.org. Tickets at: 212-868-4444 or www.smarttix.com.

March 4, 2010, 7:00 pm – Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission St, San Francisco, CA: Lecture: Shanghai’s Jews: Art, Architecture and Survival. For more: http://www.thecjm.org /

March 6 – 30, 2010 – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL

March 6, 2010, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm – International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen, Germany

March 6, 2010, 8:00 pm – Cooperman JCC, 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ

March 7, 2010, 12:00 noon – Poynter Institute, 801 Third St South, St. Petersburg, FL: Annual Survivor Luncheon to honor the Tampa Bay Holocaust Survivors, hosted by Generations After and the Florida Holocaust Museum. Free for Survivor plus one guest, fees for other guests. Entertainment by the Jammin’ Jews and more. RSVP by March 3. Contact Shelly Nadler Shellibabe@aol.com or 727-530-7484

March 7, 2010, 2:00 pm – Museum of Jewish Heritage: Edmond J. Safra Hall, New York, NY: Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt with Nazis, about Rezso Kasztner who negotiated with Adolf Eichmann to rescue 1,700 Jews. Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Gaylen Ross. Fees. Call 646.437.4202 for tickets. www.mjhnyc.org/safrahall/visit_safra_27.htm

March 8, 2010 – Axelrod Performing Arts Center, 100 Grant Ave, Deal NJ

March 8, 2010, 5:30 pm – Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, IL

March 8, 2010, 6:00 pm – Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL: The Hunt for the "Angel of Death" with guest speaker Howard Safir who led the US effort of a tri-country task force formed by Israel, Germany and the U.S. to search for Dr. Joseph Mengele. For more: www.flholocaustmuseum.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 8, 2010, 7:00 pm – Jewish Community Center of the East Bay, Berkeley, CA: For Memory is Life Itself: with Holocaust survivor Ben Stern. Stern later led the fight in 1977 to prevent Nazis from marching in Skokie, IL. For more: (510) 848-0237.

March* 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. *date changed from February 8.

March 9, 2010, 4:00 pm – Warren Auditorium, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA: As part of a lecture series Holocaust Survivor Panel: Hans Angress and Lucille Eichengreen. For more: myrna.goodman@sonoma.edu

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, 8:30 am-3:00 pm – Walsh Library, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ: Study Day: Music and Art in Holocaust Education with presenters Dr. Tamara Freeman and Dr. Susan Leshnoff. Fee. For more: www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/programs/031010art.pdf

March 10, 2010, 6:30 pm – Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St, New York, NY

March 11, 2010, 7:30 pm> – AMC Rockaway, 363 Mt. Hope Ave, Rockaway, NJ: New Jersey Jewish Film Festival screening of Berlin ‘36, based on the true story of Jewish high jumper Gretel Bergmann, who was the favorite to win the gold medal for Germany at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. Discussion will follow. For information/tickets: www.njjff.org.

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, 10:30 am - 1:00 pm – Chai House, St. Elizabeth Drive, San Jose, CA: Monthly Holocaust Survivor Brunch: discussion with Child Survivor Eva Maiden, LFMC and Second Generation Doris Schwarz-Lisenbee, Ph.D. on New Trends in Mental Health- Positive Growth After Difficult Life Experiences. For more contact Joe Sorger js95120@gmail.com or Doris Schwarz-Lisenbee drdschwarz@aol.com

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 14, 2010, 18.00 (6 pm) – Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków, Poland: Program: Mordechai Gebirtig – the Poet with discussants: Edyta Gawron, Ilona Cousin, Magdalena Ruta. In Polish with English translation. Followed at 19.30 by Monuments and the Holocaust with Batya Brutin. For more: www.galiciajewishmuseum.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 15, 2010, 12 noon – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ: Holocaust Council of MetroWest Lunch & Learn with a Holocaust survivor/eyewitness. Please bring a dairy lunch, beverage and cookies provided. For information and to RSVP, contact: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.

March 16, 2010 – Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY: Opening of Traces of Memory: A Contemporary Look at the Jewish Past in Poland, featuring images by photographer Chris Schwarz with research and texts by Jonathan Webber. The exhibit is a lament to the destroyed Jewish civilization, a record of the annihilation of the Jews, and an exploration of commemorative efforts now taking place. From the permanent exhibition of the Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków. www.mjhnyc.org/exhibitions_special.htm

March 16, 2010, 4:00 pm –Warren Auditorium, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

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 16, 2010, 7:30 pm – Cooperman JCC, 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ: New Jersey Jewish Film Festival screening of Look Into My Eyes, an investigation by Naftaly Gliksberg into contemporary anti-Semitism in Poland, France, Germany, and the U.S. Discussion will follow. For information/tickets, please call 973 530-3444 or see www.njjff.org

March 17, 2010, 6:30 pm – Museum of Jewish Heritage: Edmond J. Safra Hall, New York, NY: Film: Yiddish: The Mother Tongue, a portrait of a unique and tenacious language told through interviews, music, humor and film. Post-screening discussion with Pierre Sauvage, Aaron Lansky, Isaiah Sheffer and Joshua Fishman. Fees. Call 646.437.4202 for tickets. www.mjhnyc.org/safrahall/visit_safra_27.htm

March 17, 2010, 7:30 pm – Cooperman JCC, 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ

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, 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, 6:30 pm – Museum of Jewish Heritage: Edmond J. Safra Hall, New York, NY

March 18, 2010, 7:00 pm – Jewish Family Service of Bergen County, Teaneck, NJ

March 18, 2010, 7:00 pm – US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC: “Jewish Revenge”? Soviet Jewish officers’ encounters with Germany, 1945 with Oleg Budnitskii, 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 20, 2010 – locations in Krakow, Poland: Programming celebrating the release of The Guide to Oskar Schindler's Kraków, the Galicia Jewish Museum's newest publication: 14:00 (2:00 pm). Oskar Schindler's Kraków – a tour of Kraków meets at Kraków Philharmonic, ul Zwierzyniecka 1). 17:00 (5:00 pm) Oskar Schindler: the Unknown History – Lecture by Dr. Edyta Gawron (Jagiellonian University) at Galicia Jewish Museum, ul Dajwor 18. In Polish. For more information: www.galiciajewishmuseum.org

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 21, 2:00 pm – Museum of Jewish Heritage: Edmond J. Safra Hall, New York, NY: Double Feature: preview of work in progress And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille, and Not Idly By: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust. Fry helped 2,000 people escape from France and Bergson led a group that tried to make saving the Jews of Europe an American objective. Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Pierre Sauvage and Vanity Fair writer-at-large Marie Brenner. Fees. Call 646.437.4202 for tickets. www.mjhnyc.org/safrahall/visit_safra_27.htm

March 21, 2010, 7:30 pm – Gratz College, 7605 Old York Road, Melrose Park, PA

March 23, 2010, 7:00 pm – Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St, Milwaukee, WI: Elizabeth Bettina, author of It Happened in Italy, will talk about her search for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust from her grandparents' town of Campagna and the Italian people who helped save them. For more: www.holocaustcentermilwaukee.org

March 24, 2010, 4:00 pm – University Synagogue, 3400 Michaelson Drive, Irvine, CA: Mark it with a Stone: Sandy Rubenstein, daughter of Holocaust survivor Joseph Horn, will present a multi-media program incorporating video clips from her late father’s Shoah testimony and excerpts from his memoir, Mark It With a Stone. For more, contact Sue Penn at 949 553-3535, ext 241 or spenn@universitysynagogue.org.

March 24, 2010, 7:00 pm – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ: Holocaust Council of MetroWest Real to Reel Holocaust Film Series: Against the Tide: the Story of America during the Holocaust highlighting how a young activist, Peter Bergson, challenged Washington and the establishment Jewish organizations to demand that the rescue of Europe’s Jews become a top priority for American Jews. Light refreshments will follow. For information and to RSVP, contact: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.

March 25, 2010, 7:00 pm – 99 SE Mizner Blvd, Palmetto Place Clubhouse, Boca Raton, FL: Panel discussion: Heroes of the Holocaust – Three Stories of Triumph”. Presenters: Lawrence Bodner and Howard Herskowitz, children of Holocaust survivors, and Albin Irzyk, concentration camp liberator. For more: ngnewz@gmail.com.

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. Few Americans 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, written by Louise Borden, illustrated by Allan Drummond. For more: 847.967.4889 or email Lillian.gerstner@ilhmec.org

March 29 – April 19, 2010 – Angelo State University, 2601 W Ave N, San Angelo, TX: Lives Remembered: Photographs of a Small Town in Poland 1897-1939: reproductions of more than 100 photographs of the small town of Szczuczyn. For more information, call 325-942-2164 or visit www.angelo.edu

April 1 – April 30, 2010 – Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA: Jehovah’s Witnesses - Faith Under Fire, created by the Arnold-Liebster Foundation, this traveling exhibit chronicles the Nazi persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Witnesses’ nonviolent resistance to Nazi terror inside and outside the camps. For more information: 319-368-6465, www.mtmercy.edu/hoth or www.alst.org/pages-us/traveling-exhibitions.html

April 1, 2010, 7:30 pm – University Center, Little Theater, Kean University, Union, NJ

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 6, 2010, 7:00 pm – University Center Room 107, Drew University, Madison, NJ: The Myth of Silence: American Jewry in the Decade Following the Holocaust, with speaker Professor Hasia Diner, Director, NYU Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History. Free and open to the public. For more information: 973/408-3600 or ctrholst@drew.edu.

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, 7:00 pm – Museum of Jewish Heritage: Edmond J. Safra Hall, New York, NY: An Evening with Acclaimed Israeli Author Sayvon Liebrecht. Liebrecht was born in Munich to Holocaust survivors and will discuss growing up in a home of survivors. Fees. Call 646.437.4202 for tickets

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 8, 2010, 12:00 p.m. – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ: Holocaust Council of MetroWest Bagels and Books: discussion of Trapped Inside the Story by Leslie Cohen. The author will be our guest and share her insights into this biography of Naomi Kalsky, born Sonya Hebenstreit, a child survivor from Lvov. RSVP / information: Gail Herman at gherman@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3069.

April 8, 2010, 8:00 pm – Gratz College, 7605 Old York Road, Melrose Park, PA: At the Gates of Hell: Liberation of the Camps. Professor Thomas Childers discusses how nothing could have prepared the American liberators of the concentration camps for what they found or the mixture of emotions they experienced. Light refreshments preceding lecture (7-8 pm). GIs Remember: Liberating the Concentration Camps, an exhibit of photos and commentary will also be on display to complement the presentation. For more: 215-635-7300, ext. 154, mblechman@gratz.edu or www.gratzcollege.edu

April 9 – May 23, 2010 – Sayle Gallery, Douglas, Isle of Man, UK

April 10, 2010, 8:00 pm – Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, Mahwah, NJ: Yom Hashoah Commemoration featuring Ruth Kohn, a survivor of the Shoah who found refuge in Sosua, Dominican Republic. For more: holgen@ramapo.edu

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, 2:30 pm – Community Hall, Harry and Rose Sampson Family JCC, Milwaukee, WI: Annual Community-Wide Yom Hashoah Memorial Observance - Keynote speaker: Miriam Brysk, a child survivor and biochemist, is also an artist, writer, and lecturer on the Holocaust. For more information contact Dorene at DPaley@JCCMilwaukee.org

April 11, 2010, 3:00 pm – Temple Emanu-El, Fifth Ave & 65th St, New York, NY: Annual Gathering of Remembrance in observance of Yom Hashoah. Contribution requested. For information/tickets, call 646 437-4227 or see www.mjhnyc.org/annualgathering.

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, 6:15 pm – Congregation Shir Hadash, 20 Cherry Blossom Lane, Los Gatos, CA

April 11, 2010, 7:00 pm – JCC on the Palisades, 411 Clinton Ave, Tenafly, NJ

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 – Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, 89 Ridge St, 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, 7:00 pm – Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL: Yom Hashoah Observance: A community program of remembrance in cooperation with the North Shore Fellowship of Rabbis to mark the 65^th anniversary year of Liberation and Return to Life. Space is limited. Reservations recommended. For more information: 847.967.4889, Lillian.gerstner@ilhmec.org

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 – County Government Center, 70 West Hedding Street, San Jose, CA: Annual Santa Clara County Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony: . Almost Vanished? Jewish Culture of Poland with Jewish Survivors of the Warsaw and Lodz Ghettos plus student interviews and commentary. Also honoring Mr. Adam Cintz in his 100th year and for contributions to Holocaust Education. For more: Hong.Cao@BOS.SCCGOV.ORG

April 13, 2010, 4:00 pm – Warren Auditorium, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA: As part of a lecture series Becoming Evil with James Waller, Ph.D., Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. For more: myrna.goodman@sonoma.edu

April 13, 2010, 6:30 p.m. – Our Lady of Sorrows Church, 217 Prospect St, South Orange, NJ: South Orange/Maplewood Annual Interfaith Yom HaShoah Commemoration with keynote speaker Clara Kramer and memorial candle-lighting ceremony. Free, community welcome. For information, please contact Nancy Janow at rememberandtell@yahoo.com

April 13, 2010, 6:30 pm – Theater Arts Arena, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD: Holocaust Commemoration with guest speakers Mark Hanis, grandson of survivors and founder / director of Genocide Intervention Network, and Holocaust survivors Louise Lawrence-Israels and Manya Friedman. For more: etfinder@juno.com.

April 14, 2010, 10:00 am – Baldwin Gym, Drew University, Madison, NJ: Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Screening of Blessed 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. Guest speaker: producer/director Roberta Grossman. For more: ctrholst@drew.edu

April 14, 2010, 12 noon – Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany, NJ: Holocaust Council of MetroWest Lunch & Learn with a Holocaust survivor/eyewitness. Please bring a dairy lunch, beverage and cookies provided. For information and to RSVP, contact: holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org or 973-929-3194.

April 14, 7:00 pm – Museum of Jewish Heritage: Edmond J. Safra Hall, New York, NY: We Are Going to Pick Potatoes: Norway and the Holocaust, the Untold Story. Irene Levin Berman was one of 1,200 Norwegian Jews who escaped to Sweden. She will tell her family’s story of rescue. Fees, tickets: 646.437.4202, www.mjhnyc.org/safrahall/visit_safra_27.htm

April 15, 2010, 7:30 pm – University Center, Little Theater, Kean University, Union, NJ

April 16 – October 3, 2010 – Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX: Exhibit: Never Let It Rest! An Art Project by Hans Molzberger. A concentration camp for women was erected in Salzwedel in 1944 as a satellite to Neuengamme. Included in the exhibit is historical documentation of events of the time and an art installation created to address specific issues of persecution, war propaganda and the concentration camps. For more: www.hmh.org

April 17, 2010, 2:00 pm – Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA: Free concert with commentary: Sparks of Glory: Rodas Recordada

April 18, 2:30 pm – Museum of Jewish Heritage: Edmond J. Safra Hall, New York, NY: Way to Heaven (Himmelweg), by Juan Mayorga, directed by Matthew Earnest, is a play inspired by the true story of the elaborate deception that took place at the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Fees, tickets: 646.437.4202, www.mjhnyc.org/safrahall/visit_safra_27.htm

April 19 – May 31, 2010 – Garland County Public Library, Hot Springs, AR

April 19, 2010, 12:00- 4:00 pm – State Assembly Chambers, California State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA: Annual State of California Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony followed by a reception for Survivors and guests. For more: Nicole.Fernandez@asm.ca.gov

April 20, 2010, 7:30 pm – Ramapo College Trustees Pavilion, Mahwah, NJ: The True Story of the Bielski Partisans with Zvi Bielski, Son of Zus Bielski, hero of the movie "Defiance". For more: holgen@ramapo.edu

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.

May 2, 2010, 11:00 am – Broken Sound Club, Yamato Rd & St. Andrews Blvd., Boca Raton, FL: NEXTGENERATIONS closing meeting brunch: Holocaust Survivor Cookbook, A Tribute to Survivors & their Families, Stories & Recipes from around the World with presenter, Joanne Caras, author & publisher. For more information: mgnewz@gmail.com.

May 4, 2010, 4:00 pm – Warren Auditorium, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA: As part of a lecture series Inheriting the Holocaust: A 2ND Generation Memoir with Paula Fass, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. For more: myrna.goodman@sonoma.edu

May 10, 2010, 8:00 pm – Benaroya Hall, Seattle WA: For Holocaust Commemoration: Spring Concert & Gala Evening: VEDEM tells the story of the boys at Terezin and their clandestine journal Vedem.

May 24 – December 31, 2010 – Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, Abilene, KS

YOM HASHOAH COMMEMORATIONS

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 10, 2010, 8:00 pm – Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, Mahwah, NJ: Yom Hashoah Commemoration featuring Ruth Kohn, a survivor of the Shoah who found refuge in Sosua, Dominican Republic. For more: holgen@ramapo.edu

April 11, 2010, 2:30 pm – Community Hall, Harry and Rose Sampson Family JCC, Milwaukee, WI: Annual Community-Wide Yom Hashoah Memorial Observance - Keynote speaker: Miriam Brysk, a child survivor and biochemist, is also an artist, writer, and lecturer on the Holocaust. For more information contact Dorene at DPaley@JCCMilwaukee.org

April 11, 2010, 3:00 pm – Temple Emanu-El, Fifth Ave & 65th St, New York, NY: Annual Gathering of Remembrance in observance of Yom Hashoah. Contribution requested. For information/tickets, call 646 437-4227 or see www.mjhnyc.org/annualgathering.

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, 6:15 pm – Congregation Shir Hadash, 20 Cherry Blossom Lane, Los Gatos, CA: Yom Hashoah Community Service: special showing of the 50 minute version of Blessed Is the Match, the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh followed by service at 7:30 pm. For more: http://shirhadash.org/calendar/e/01004

April 11, 2010, 7:00 pm – JCC on the Palisades, 411 Clinton Ave, Tenafly, NJ

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 – Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, 89 Ridge St, 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, 7:00 pm – Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL: Yom Hashoah Observance: A community program of remembrance in cooperation with the North Shore Fellowship of Rabbis to mark the 65^th anniversary year of Liberation and Return to Life. Space is limited. Reservations recommended. For more information: 847.967.4889, Lillian.gerstner@ilhmec.org

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 – County Government Center, 70 West Hedding Street, San Jose, CA: Annual Santa Clara County Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony: . Almost Vanished? Jewish Culture of Poland with Jewish Survivors of the Warsaw and Lodz Ghettos plus student interviews and commentary. Also honoring Mr. Adam Cintz in his 100th year and for contributions to Holocaust Education. For more: Hong.Cao@BOS.SCCGOV.ORG

April 13, 2010, 6:30 p.m. – Our Lady of Sorrows Church, 217 Prospect St, South Orange, NJ: South Orange/Maplewood Annual Interfaith Yom HaShoah Commemoration with keynote speaker Clara Kramer and memorial candle-lighting ceremony. Free, community welcome. For information, please contact Nancy Janow at rememberandtell@yahoo.com

April 13, 2010, 6:30 pm – Theater Arts Arena, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD: Holocaust Commemoration with guest speakers Mark Hanis, grandson of survivors and founder / director of Genocide Intervention Network, and Holocaust survivors Louise Lawrence-Israels and Manya Friedman. For more: etfinder@juno.com.

April 14, 2010, 10:00 am – Baldwin Gym, Drew University, Madison, NJ: Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Screening of Blessed 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. Guest speaker: producer/director Roberta Grossman. For more: ctrholst@drew.edu

April 19, 2010, 12:00- 4:00 pm – State Assembly Chambers, California State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA: Annual State of California Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony followed by a reception for Survivors and guests. For more: Nicole.Fernandez@asm.ca.gov

FYI: For your information

FYI… The Blue Card was established by the Jewish community in the early 1930s, in Germany, to help Jews already being affected by Nazi persecution through loss of jobs and other forms of oppression. After the Holocaust, the mission of the organization was expanded to help survivors of the Shoah from all European countries. It continues its work to this very day. For more information: www.bluecardfund.org/home.html
FYI… On the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, over 200 came to celebrate life, and support "WEDU" (We Educate) – our new education initiative that will bring our family stories and lessons of the Holocaust to school classrooms. Developed under the guidance of professional educators, WEDU will prepare participants to learn and teach. The strong turnout was a true indication of our community's commitment to Holocaust education and commemoration. On our website, www.3gnewyork.org, you can find details on how to get involved with WEDU.
FYI… The Florida Holocaust Museum will host its first annual Genocide and Human Rights Awareness Month (GHRAM) beginning April of 2010. The goal of GHRAM to build public awareness about the current genocide in Darfur and past genocides including the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the Cambodian Killing Fields, the Rwandan Genocide and the genocide in the former Yugoslavia. Programming during GHRAM will include exhibitions, commemorative events, events focused on public education and advocacy and student workshops. For exhibit and program information: www.flholocaustmuseum.org, 727-820-0100.
FYI… A film is being made in England about Dutch rescuer Corrie ten Boom. The film's producer is looking for survivors rescued by her. If you were rescued by her, or know someone who was, please contact Carla at the Hidden Child Foundation/ADL: 212-885-7902 or hiddc@adl.org.
FYI… A new film that deals in part with the Holocaust is being produced in the UK and will be shot in Italy over the summer. The film, Charlie, is not based on an actual person, but the event that inspired it took place in Naples in 1943 as the Allies were invading. A group of children formed a barricade and, with stolen weapons, fought the Germans. Ultimately they were captured and hanged. For more information about this film: www.charliefilm.com/
FYI… Eight middle and high school students from Indiana went to Poland to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. To see their blog; http://btvpoland2010.ning.com/video/january-29th
FYI… … For information on Stones of Remembrance, an effort to keep the memory of the Jews from Vienna who were killed in the Shoah: http://www.steinedererinnerung.net/
FYI… For information on the exhibit More Than Just Games: Canada & the 1936 Olympics: www.vhec.org/
FYI… From the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance in Belgium This Museum is located in the Kazerne Dossin (Dossin military barracks) in Mechelen which functioned as an SS-Sammellager from 1942-1944. This was the point of departure for more than 25000 Jews and 351 Gypsies to Auschwitz. The museum has more than 30,000 visitors a year. The museum has space; therefore a new museum is being built. Even though the international context will get a lot of attention, the main focus will be on the very particular Belgian situation.
We plan to expand our collection and are looking for photographs, objects (toys, cultural objects, etc.), letters, diaries, stories, and family films from Jewish families who lived in Belgium during the 1930s and 1940s. By showing recognizable images, objects and stories we want to show the pupils visiting the museum that Belgian Jews or Jews living in Belgium were very normal and lived lives very similar to their lives. Do you still have amateur films from your childhood in Belgium, or from your parents’ or grandparents’? I can assure you that the films and the families involved will be treated with the greatest care and discretion. Please contact me at liesbeth.vantorre@ua.ac.be or Liesbeth Vantorre, University of Antwerp, Prinsstraat 13 / S.L.102, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium.
FYI… From The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, in New York, New York: The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation (IRWF) is searching for people who survived the Holocaust through the effort of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg saved approximately 100,000 people by giving them protective passports and sheltering them in "safe houses", buildings he acquired and maintained under the protection of the Swedish government.
If you were in Budapest in 1944-45 and survived the Holocaust, it is possible that you were saved by Wallenberg. We are currently gathering testimonies as part of "Documenting Wallenberg," a project to be used for educational purposes. We have completed more than 20 interviews so far; but since there is no official list of survivors, we believe there are many more who we have not reached. If you (or anyone you know) were in Budapest in 1944-45 and would like to contribute to this archive, please contact us at 212-737-3275 or email: irwf@irwf.org.
FYI… Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust has a new website: www.lamoth.org
FYI… One by One, Inc. is holding a Dialogue Group between descendants of the Holocaust and the Nazi Regime in Berlin, Germany this summer... We are interviewing participants from both sides who would like to consider this deeply moving encounter. Please contact: info@rosaliegerut.com
FYI… Of possible interest to grandchildren of survivors: Interreligious Outreach trip May 6 - 16, 2010 hosted by Germany Close-Up. This trip will focus on Christian-Jewish relations. Highlights include a seminar at Humboldt University in Berlin, a preview of the most important Passion Play in the world at Oberammergau - held only once every ten years, and a chance to speak at Kirchentag, a major gathering of young Christians (anticipating 100,000 this year) in Munich. Fees. Application: www.germanycloseup.de, Application Deadline: March 12, 2010; About the Oberammergau Passion Play ; About the Munich Jewish community
FYI… Israeli Postage Stamp Honors Holocaust Remembrance Day: On January 27th, officials of Israel Post released a special sheetlet of nine different horizontal 6.70 shekel postage stamps to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, highlighting the heroism of those Sharei Hapleitah, survivors of the Holocaust, who uniquely utilized their collective memories of their horrible past to contribute to the dynamic future of the Jewish State of Israel that we all enjoy today. For more: ipana@igpc.net or phone (212) 629-7979
FYI… … For updates on anti-Semitism in the Baltics: www.holocaustinthebaltics.com/38401.html
FYI… During the Shoah, the Germans desecrated Jewish cemeteries in order to build roads, fortifications and other structures. Today, there are an estimated 1400 devastated Jewish cemeteries plus thousands of unmarked mass graves in Poland. To date, only a handful of the cemeteries have been reconstructed, mostly paid for by survivors and descendants. Poland Jewish Cemetery Restoration Project estimates the total restoration costs to be $200 million and has created a petition to the German government requesting financial assistance. PJCRP seeks letters of support from organizations and individuals. Please visit www.pjcrp.org to add your voice to our petition, e-mail letters of support to aimeefogg@yahoo.com or call Dr. Norman Weinberg, executive director, at 716-912-9378.
FYI… Click here to view the Auschwitz Album
FYI… PBS Honors Holocaust Remembrance with a slate of new programming April 11-14, 2010: www.pbs.org/aboutpbs/news/20100113_holocaustremembrance.html

FYI... Articles in the news...

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Claims Conf. Fraud Put At $350,000; No Survivor Funds Bilked www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c37_a17895/News/National.html
Fake Holocaust claims discovered at Claims Conference http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/12/1010613/claims-conference-fires-three-over-fraud-allegation
3 Fired In Holocaust Claims Conference Fraud Scheme http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2010/02/3-fired-in-holocaust-claims-conference-fraud-scheme-567.html
End of an era at OSI
Vatican to put some WWII-era documents from secret archive online
Holocaust survivors sue Hungarian railway company in Chicago court
US: Mengele's journal bought by Holocaust survivor's grandson http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3843623,00.html
Yugoslav partisan who saved Jews in Holocaust dies in Israel
It's our last chance to help survivors
US lawmakers push insurers on Holocaust claims
The silver lining of Eichmann (Ha'aretz)
March of the Living to honor survivors
Alleged middleman in Auschwitz sign theft arrested http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/11/1010588/alleged-middleman-in-auschwitz-sign-theft-arrested
German prosecutors consider new evidence in Nazi war crimes trials
Demjanjuk trial again delayed as defendant feels indisposed
Demjanjuk trial extended until at least September
Alleged Nazi Zentai appeals extradition http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/24/1010783/alleged-nazi-charles-zentai-appeals-extradition
Documents suggest Pope Pius XII more concerned about Soviets than Nazis
Polish bishop clarifies Shoah statements http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/03/1010451/polish-bishop-clarifies-shoah-statements
Catholic scholars ‘implore’ pope to delay Pius sainthood
Jewish groups condemn sale of Mussolini speeches for Apple iPhone
Arrest of ex-Neo-Nazi sought in Auschwitz theft - SFGate
Czech soldier under investigated for Nazi tattoos
Fighting a new breed of Holocaust revisionists www.statepress.com/node/10362
French 'Nazi hunter' talks about Holocaust in Middle Eastern countries www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8959
Some Good News in Tumultuous Times http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/harris/entry/some_good_news_in_tumultuous
Raptors player's family helped Jews during Holocaust www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3839721,00.html
ADL Honors Woman as Teenage Rescuer of Jews During Holocaust www.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/5709_52.htm
Polish Righteous in PaduaPolish Righteous in Padua
How to teach about Gentile/Jewish relations in Poland?
Ukraine chief rabbi protests nationalist’s honor http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/02/1010440/ukraine-chief-rabbi-protests-nationalists-honor
The Hero of the Orange Revolution Poisons Ukraine www.thenation.com/doc/20100301/ames
Russia to build Holocaust museum; Israel to erect memorial to Soviet Army
Hungary tries again to outlaw Holocaust denial http://jta.org/news/article/2010/01/31/1010400/hungary-tries-again-to-outlaw-holocaust-denial
Hungarian parliament votes in favor of penalizing Holocaust denial
Court OKs neo-Nazi march in Hungary http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/16/1010646/court-oks-neo-nazi-march-in-hungary
Wiesel: I’d shed no tears if Ahmadinejad killed http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/09/1010550/wiesel-wouldnt-cry-if-ahmajinejad-assasinated
Nazi-looted Klimt painting auctioned http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/04/1010484/nazi-looted-klimt-painting-auctioned
Riefenstahl Footage In Video Causes Stir http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/sports/olympics/04rings.html
Olympic video with Berlin footage withdrawn http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/04/1010480/olympic-video-with-berlin-footage-withdrawn
Berlin Holocaust Memorial architect wins Wolf Prize http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/03/1010458/american-architect-awarded-wolf-prize
Revamped Jewish Museum of London to open its doors
Sixth-formers visit Auschwitz www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/homenews/Sixth-formers-visit-Auschwitz/article-1823101-detail/article.html
Cardin urges survivors to preserve their stories http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/21/1010718/cardin-to-survivors-preserve-your-stories
Holocaust survivor awarded high school diploma http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/07/1010494/holocaust-survivor-awarded-high-school-diploma
Italy's prime minister links Gaza war to Holocaust - CBS 21 News
iMussolini app flap restirs debate on Il Duce’s legacy
Jewish cemetery in Poland returned to Jewish community
Limits of free speech http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2010/02/11/1010591/limits-of-free-speech
“Images of Normandy Beach” http://njjewishnews.com/article/videos/video-images-of-normandy-beach/
New Milford teacher aids effort to build Holocaust memorial
From Skinhead to Orthodox Jew
Colorado Nazi Group Adopts a Highway
Freud-owned Hitler painting to be auctioned
Rock and Wrap It Up! How Syd Mandelbaum Fights Hunger
Rosa Rein, world’s oldest Jew, dies http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/16/1010644/rosa-rein-worlds-oldest-jew-dies
Heirs of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Reach Settlement Agreement www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=35498
Shooting a German-Israeli relationship

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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