The Holocaust

The Ghetto Fighters’ House Talking Memory Series presents: ‘Gross Aktion’: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto’s Great Deportation 80 Year Later

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, July 26, 2022 / Comments Off on The Ghetto Fighters’ House Talking Memory Series presents: ‘Gross Aktion’: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto’s Great Deportation 80 Year Later

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

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, July 26, 2022 / Comments Off on BY THE GRACE OF THE GAME: A HOLOCAUST SPORTS STORY

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 […]

Day 4: What Bologna Asks Us? by Kate Lukaszewicz

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, July 19, 2022 / Comments Off on Day 4: What Bologna Asks Us? by Kate Lukaszewicz

Quando comincia la storia? “When does history begin?,” asks the Jewish Museum of Bologna.

Discovering Italy: July 15th by Melody Meadows 

By Ellen Resnek / Saturday, July 16, 2022 / Comments Off on Discovering Italy: July 15th by Melody Meadows 

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.

Venice by Avi Ben Hur

By Ellen Resnek / Friday, July 15, 2022 / Comments Off on Venice by Avi Ben Hur

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.

Discovering Italy: Crossroads of Culture, Heritage and History Italy Day 2: Padua and Ferrara

By Ellen Resnek / Friday, July 15, 2022 / Comments Off on Discovering Italy: Crossroads of Culture, Heritage and History Italy Day 2: Padua and Ferrara

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.

Discovering Italy: Crossroads of Culture, Heritage and History: Venice July 12th by Meg Frank

By Ellen Resnek / Thursday, July 14, 2022 / Comments Off on Discovering Italy: Crossroads of Culture, Heritage and History: Venice July 12th by Meg Frank

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.

Ghetto Wall- Warsaw by Starlo Galetta

By Ellen Resnek / Sunday, July 3, 2022 / Comments Off on Ghetto Wall- Warsaw by Starlo Galetta

I learned her hopes and dreams and it seemed I knew her.

Reflection by Teresa McCombs

By Ellen Resnek / Sunday, July 3, 2022 / Comments Off on Reflection by Teresa McCombs

“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

Reflection by Michael Shaughnessy

By Ellen Resnek / Sunday, July 3, 2022 / Comments Off on Reflection by Michael Shaughnessy

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.

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