The Holocaust
The Ghetto Fighters’ House Talking Memory Series presents: Grossaktion Warsaw: 80 Years Later Join us for the second program on Sunday, August 21st The Road to the Umschlagplatz: The Jewish […]
BY THE GRACE OF THE GAME: A HOLOCAUST SPORTS STORY Join us to hear an amazing basketball story that takes us from Auschwitz to an Olympic gold medal to the […]
Quando comincia la storia? “When does history begin?,” asks the Jewish Museum of Bologna.
In “Ulysses” Alfred, Lord Tennyson said, “I am a part of all that I have met.” Every experience we have a humans shapes us and makes us who we are.
My senses were overloaded by so much wealth and power that was concentrated for centuries in the hands of a small city-state on the northern edge of the Adriatic sea.
Padua is a very ancient city with roots that reach far back into antiquity. It is home to a famous university that at one point was the only one to accept Jewish students.
We learned that at the time the synagogues were built in the 16th century, Jews were not permitted to be architects so they were designed by Christians.
I learned her hopes and dreams and it seemed I knew her.
“And now a prayer—or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all or heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.” – Elie Wiesel, Night
a stark reminder of the 4 million refugees in Poland right now and the importance of making connections to the past to inform our knowledge of the present.