BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Classrooms Without Borders - ECPv6.11.2.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Classrooms Without Borders X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Classrooms Without Borders REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T220000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230414T213957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230414T214833Z UID:10000879-1682107200-1682114400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Etty adapted and performed by Susan Stein at the Carnegie Stage DESCRIPTION:Etty Hillesum’s life ended at Auschwitz when she was only 29 years old. In the play\, Etty\, drawn entirely from Hillesum’s diaries and letters of 1941 to 1943\, we meet a remarkable young Dutch woman: insightful\, determined\, poetic\, sensual. \nThrough the voice of actress Susan Stein\, Hillesum speaks directly to her audience\, frankly\, and with compassion–even for the enemy. Seeking the meaning of her life–and all life–during the terror of Nazi occupation\, Hillesum discovers a reality she calls God and opens herself to the power of being fully alive and present\, bearing witness to the catastrophe unfolding around her. \nIn her gentle yet forthright way\, Hillesum asks us not to leave her at Auschwitz\, but to let her have a “little bit of a say” in what she hopes will be a new world. \n \n\nSusan Stein\, Author & Performer \n\n\nSusan Stein is the author of Etty\, an adaptation of Etty Hillesum’s diaries and letters. Susan picked up the diaries in 1994 for fifty cents at a yard sale after her friend\, Joan\, recommended it. After reading the diaries\, Susan wanted to give something back to Etty. She wanted to make a play of Etty’s words and bring her to people who might not read the diaries themselves. \nShe began distilling the diaries and letters in 2006 meeting weekly with New York director and actor\, Austin Pendleton to bring her adaptation to the stage. Etty has been performed in black box theatres\, studios\, libraries\, schools and major theatres around the country and internationally. Some of these venues include: Yad Vashem\, Israel; 59e59 Theaters\, New York; Next Theatre\, Illinois; Philly Fringe Festival\, Pennsylvania; Edinburgh Festival Fringe\, Scotland; Smith College\, Massachusetts; Boston College; Boston University; University of Ghent\, Belgium; Bowery Poetry Club\, New York; Fort Monmouth Army Base\, New Jersey; The Museum of Jewish Heritage\, New York; Anne Frank Center USA\, Peekskill Performing Arts Center\, New York; and the Etty Hillesum Center in Deventer\, The Netherlands. \nSusan Stein appeared in Arthur Miller’s American Clock\, directed by Austin Pendleton. She was seen at Luna Stage in A Parent’s Evening. Susan studied acting at NYU Graduate School of Arts & Science and Purchase College\, SUNY. She served for thirteen years on the faculty of Princeton Day School in Princeton\, NJ teaching Dramatic Literature\, playwriting and the history and literature of the Holocaust. \nStudent Matinees April 19\, 20 & 21 at 10 AM \nContact ellen@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net to schedule Student Matinees \nPublic Performances \n\nApril 21 & 22 at 8:00 pm \nApril 23 at 3:00 pm URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/etty-adapted-and-performed-by-susan-stein-at-the-carnegie-stage/2023-04-21/ LOCATION:off the WALL productions\, 25 West Main Street\, Carnegie\, 15106\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/4.25x5.5-Flyer-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230308T172737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T175159Z UID:10000868-1682002800-1682008200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Air Born DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Air Born:\nwith Liat Eini-Netzer & moderator Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nA fascinating little-known historical tale is stirringly recounted in Air Born\, an inspiring documentary that brings the story of the children who grew up in Israeli air force bases housing projects of the 1960s and 1970s. \nIn a civilian housing complex surrounded by a bustling military base where his father served\, director Yoram Ivry recalls his childhood protected by a fence and a guard with an endless feeling of freedom and security\, full of dramatic events that influenced his life and the lives of so many other children who grew up in the shadow of wars. \nCelebrating the heroism and derring-do attitude of Israeli pilots\, Air Born also touchingly conveys a valuable history lesson that is both informative and inspirational. \nLiat Eini-Netzer is a senior partner at B. Levinbook & Co. \n \nMs. Eini-Netzer lives in Tel Aviv\, married and mother of 3 children. \nMs. Eini-Netzer has 30 years of experience in every aspect of civil and commercial litigation\, in all courts\, and in all areas of substantive law. She has represented clients including leading corporations in Israel and abroad\, the majority of banks in Israel\, overseas banks\, various financial bodies\, institutions\, public companies\, and more. \nMs. Eini-Netzer also possesses outstanding specialist expertise and experience in banking regulation. In addition\, her unique skills ideally position her to advise service providers\, primarily banks\, and represent them in standard form contracts. \nFurthermore\, Ms. Eini-Netzer provides pro bono legal representation and assistance for non-profit organizations that strive to advance worthy causes. She also lectures at various forums and seminars on a range of subjects\, including banking law. \nAvi Ben-Hur \nScholar in Residence \n\n\n\nAvi Ben-Hur is an Israeli-American scholar and guide who has been living in Jerusalem since 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi directed a national guiding school for Archaeological Seminars. Avi is a lecturer and field guide in the University of Haifa’s Tourism school and has taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. \nAs a scholar in residence\, Avi has run seminars for Classrooms Without Borders and the Florence Melton School for Adult Jewish Education in Greece\, Berlin\, Prague\, Israel and Poland. \nAvi’s expertise lies in the geo-political issues underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict\, Interfaith encounters and in Holocaust studies. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-air-born/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/14596f1d3f430f58d767546f7dd0fe22-hZeHfl.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230208T184439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T193514Z UID:10000856-1681743600-1681747200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Liberation and Return to Life: An American liberator's story DESCRIPTION:Liberation and Return to Life: An American liberator’s story\n  \nAs the Allied forces liberated war-torn Europe\, what did they bear witness to as their units entered unfamiliar territory? John L. Withers of Greensboro\, North Carolina\, was commander of the U.S. Army’s all-black Quartermaster Truck Company 3511 that had been tasked with supplying emergency provisions to the German town of Dachau in May 1945. Victims of racial abuse themselves\, they were shocked to discover Jewish survivors of the Dachau concentration camp. Today’s webinar is presented by John L. Withers’ own son\, John L. Withers II\, who penned his father’s experiences in Balm in Gilead.  \nThis webinar connects to Lesson Plan Unit 6 on the Echoes & Reflections website. \n  \n \n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/liberation-and-return-to-life-an-american-liberators-story/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T133000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230403T152007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T154541Z UID:10000875-1681732800-1681738200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Yom HaShoah online lecture “Early Israeli and American Artists: Re-visioning the Holocaust” DESCRIPTION:“Early Israeli and American Artists: Re-visioning the Holocaust”\n\n\nThis online talk focuses on three Israeli and three American familiar and unfamiliar artists working in very diverse styles and not typically thought of as focusing on the Holocaust. Each of them\, however\, has offered powerful reflections on the defining catastrophe of the twentieth century. \n\nBarnett Newman\, the foremost verbal spokesman for the chromatic side of the abstract expressionist movement redefining American painting in the early 1950s\, offers an unexpectedly intense reflection on the question of theodicy. Mordecai Ardon\, in the process of assuming leadership of the Bezalel school in Jerusalem at around the same time\, balances between abstraction and figuration in depicting the Nazi-engendered chaos. Ygal Tumarkin’s sculpture turns Holocaust chaos into upside-down order and Mauricio Lasansky’s drawings turn stridently to Nazi malfeasance to ask how evil can be envisioned. Micha Ullman’s installation addresses the void after the aftermath of Nazi destruction—and Geoffrey Laurence questions how we can and must shape the post-Holocaust future. Each of these artists contributes to the endlessly complex dialogue—between Jews and Christians\, humans and humans\, and humans and God—that is the ongoing legacy of the Holocaust.\n\n\nOri Z Soltes\, PhD\, teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines\, from art history and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the former Director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum\, and has curated more than 90 exhibitions across the country and overseas. He has authored or edited 25 books and several hundred articles and essays. Recent volumes include Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish\, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; The Ashen Rainbow: Essays on the Arts and the Holocaust; and Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art & Architecture; and Growing Up Jewish in India: Synagogues\, Ceremonies\, and Customs from the Bene Israel to the art of Siona Benjamin.\n\n\nThis event is organized by The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, New York. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/yom-hashoah-online-lecture-early-israeli-and-american-artists-re-visioning-the-holocaust/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230330T130921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230418T162456Z UID:10000872-1681657200-1681662600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Israel at 75 Reflections for Yom Ha'atzmaut DESCRIPTION:A celebration of Israel’s accomplishments\nsince its founding in 1948\n\n\n\nRabbi Jonty Blackman \n \n\n\n\n\nJonty has led many seminars and missions in Poland and Israel and is a gifted educator and a fascinating storyteller. Jonty has a unique way of connecting his teachings to his audience\, such that their experience of learning leaves a deep and enduring impact on their lives. He weaves together Jewish history with philosophy\, culture with archaeology\, and the tragedy of the Holocaust with probing\, source-based theological questions. His intricate knowledge of Jewish history and the Holocaust\, combined with his analytical and sensitive approach to challenging philosophical questions offers students a profound educational experience. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/israel-at-75-reflections-for-yom-haatzmaut/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/bbffb73347ceb5a210972da732483d1d-ElOVNu.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T170000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230330T152503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T155049Z UID:10000873-1681227000-1681232400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Poland Personally and Holocaust Remembrance: Experiences of Students and Faculty Touring Holocaust Remembrance Sites in Poland DESCRIPTION:On April 11\, please join CWB Participant Alumni from Carnegie Mellon University for a presentation featuring Stephen Brockmann:\n\nPoland Personally and Holocaust Remembrance: Experiences of Students and Faculty Touring Holocaust Remembrance Sites in Poland\n \nTuesday\, April 11\n3:30 PM – 5:00 PM\nPosner Hall 340\n\n\nIn summer 2022\, Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate Talia Oliver and professor of German Stephen Brockmann traveled to Poland to visit Holocaust memorial sites with Classrooms Without Borders. During their trip\, they were joined by Holocaust survivor Howard Chandler and a large group of students and teachers from Pittsburgh and elsewhere. At this talk\, they will talk about their experiences in Poland as well as their encounters with Ukrainian refugees. \nFree and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/poland-personally-and-holocaust-remembrance-experiences-of-students-and-faculty-touring-holocaust-remembrance-sites-in-poland/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230208T183757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T193549Z UID:10000855-1681138800-1681142400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING DESCRIPTION:THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING\n  \nThe Warsaw Ghetto uprising in April 1943 is an iconic symbol of heroic resistance during the Holocaust. Who were the members of the youth movements that participated in this uprising? How were they able to resist\, after years of oppression\, starvation and persecution? In honor of Holocaust Memorial Day\, Yad Vashem educator Liz Elsby will present this astonishing example of armed resistance\, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the uprising. \n  \n  \nThis webinar connects to Lesson Plan Unit 7 on the Echoes & Reflections website. \n \n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T133000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230214T152751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230309T213645Z UID:10000860-1680091200-1680096600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:“Sweet Kitsch\, I can’t do that.” Maria Luiko (1904-1941) With Wolfram P. Kastner and Mascha Erbelding\, both Munich (Germany) DESCRIPTION:“Sweet Kitsch\, I can’t do that.”\nMaria Luiko (1904-1941)\nWith Wolfram P. Kastner and Mascha Erbelding\, both Munich (Germany)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe artistic work of Maria Luiko (1904-1941)\, born Marie Luise Kohn in Munich\, is characterized by an impressive diversity. In addition to drawings\, watercolors and oil paintings\, she created prints using various printing processes and paper cuts\, and designed book illustrations\, stage sets and marionettes. Already during her studies at the local Academy of Fine Arts and her training at the School of Applied Arts she was included in exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace (Münchner Glaspalast).\nHer career was brutally cut short by the Nazi regime. In 1933 Luiko was expelled from the Reich Association of Fine Artists and was banned from exhibiting. Until 1939 she contributed to the Jewish Cultural Association and the Marionette Theater of Munich Jewish Artists. A large part of her graphic works\, in which she critically deals with the current living conditions and everyday situations\, were created during this time. On November 20\, 1941 Maria Luiko was deported to Kaunas in Lithuania together with her sister Dr. Elisabeth Kohn\, her mother Olga Kohn (nee Schulhöfer) and 996 other Jews and murdered there. \nPresentations by Wolfram P. Kastner\, curator and artist\, and Mascha Erbelding\, director of the Puppet Theatre / Fairground Attractions Collection at Münchner Stadtmuseum (Munich City Museum)\, will be followed by a moderated discussion and Q&A. Introduced by Rachel Stern\, director and CEO of the Fritz Ascher Society. \nImage above: Maria Luiko\, Beggar (Bettlerin)\, ca. 1935. Paper; Woodcut\, 30 cm x 38\,5 cm. Jewish Museum Munich (Jüdisches Museum München)\, Collection Maria Luiko \nMaria Luiko (1904-1941) was a daughter of the grain wholesaler Heinrich Kohn and Olga Schulhöfer\, her slightly older sister was the lawyer Elisabeth Kohn. The daughters lived in the Neuhausen district of Munich with their mother\, who was widowed in 1935. \nFrom 1923 Kohn studied eight semesters at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the same time at the Munich School of Applied Arts\, where she also had her studio for a while. In 1924 she participated for the first time in an exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace\, this was followed by regular participations until 1931 and after the fire in the Glass Palace in 1931 she participated in the Munich Juryfreie. \nMarie Luise Kohn adopted the artist name Maria Luiko and was creatively active in a variety of ways. She was represented at local exhibitions with drawings\, watercolors and oil paintings as well as silhouettes\, lithographs\, woodcuts and linocuts. She also created book illustrations\, such as Ernst Toller’s Hinkemann in 1923 and Shalom Ben-Chorin’s 1934 book of poems The Songs of the Eternal Well. \nIn 1933 Luiko was expelled from the Reich Association of Fine Artists and was banned from exhibiting. Until 1939 she contributed to the Jewish Cultural Association and the Marionette Theater of Munich Jewish Artists. A large part of her graphic works\, in which she critically deals with the current living conditions and everyday situations\, were created during this time. Luiko made her studio available for exhibitions and theater rehearsals. In 1934\, she took part in the “Graphic Exhibition of Bavarian Jewish Artists” in Munich\, and in 1935/36 she designed the stage set for Semen Yushkevich’s play “Sonkin and the Main Hit”. In April 1936 she took part in the “Reich Exhibition of Jewish Artists” at the Berlin Jewish Museum.\nShe designed and created the puppets for the Munich Marionette Theater of Jewish Artists. \nMaria Luiko\, Munich Marionette Theater of Jewish Artists\, Marionette “Israelite” (1/2) (Marionette “Israelitin” (1/2))\, 1935. Papier-Mâché laminated\, colored; Textile\, wire\, 42 cm. Münchner Stadtmuseum\, Sammlung Puppentheater / Schaustellerei (Munich City Museum\, Puppet Theatre / Fairground Attractions Collection) \nOn November 20\, 1941\, Luiko was deported “to the East” from Munich\, together with her mother and sister\, and 998 other Jewish people. The passenger train originally destined for Riga was diverted by the SS to Kovno (Kaunas). On November 25\, 1941\, all prisoners of Kaunas Fort IX were murdered. \nMascha Erbelding is the director of the of the Sammlung Puppentheater / Schaustellerei des Münchner Stadtmuseums (Puppet Theatre / Fairground Attractions Collection). She studied dramaturgy\, comparative literature and history at the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding / Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich\, at the FU Berlin and at the Université Rennes II. Her diploma thesis on „Mit dem Tod spielt man nicht. Funktion und Gestalt des Todes im Figurentheater des 20. Jahrhunderts“ (One Does Not Play with Death. Function and Form of Death in Twentieth-Century Century Puppet Theatre) was published in 2006. She is the artistic and organisational director of the Munich International Puppet Theatre Festival “Wunder.” and the „KUCKUCK“ festival for children 0-5. Since 2007 she has been a member of the editorial board of the puppet theatre magazine double. She contributed to the „Compendium of German artistic puppet theater 1900-1945“ (edited by Manfred Wegner in 2019). \nWolfram P. Kastner is an independent artist\, researcher and and curator. He studied art\, psychology\, history and politics at the Munich university. He shows art in public spaces\, which interferes and sometimes disturbs: art that makes visible what is otherwise invisible. His art usually causes reflection and discussion\, contradiction\, but also bans\, death threats and court processes. In addition to interventions and actions in public on current and historical topics such as exclusion\, violence and war\, installations\, objects and satirical\, beautiful and sometimes angry pictures\, drawings\, objects\, photos\, etc. Exhibitions\, installations and actions since 1980 between Berlin and Vienna\, Budapest\, Hamburg\, Munich\, Salzburg\, Rotterdam. 2005 German Jewish History Award/Arthur Obermayer Foundation/Boston\, 2005 “Nothing to see?”against the so-called “Judensau” sculptures at German churches\, 2007 “Terrible Paths” project to commemorate the death march of Hungarian Jews in April 1945\, 2008 “Unheard Music”\, art project in memory of Jewish musicians and composers\, 2011 Prize of the International Auschwitz Committee\, 2022 Upright Walk Award\, Humanist Union Germany \nIn 2022\, Michaela Melián’s temporary installation “Maria Luiko\, Mourner\, 1938” played with opposites: On the one hand\, there is the veiled statue of Neptune\, which was erected by the National Socialists in 1937 as part of the redesign of the Old Botanical Garden in Munich. The sculptor\, Joseph Wackerle\, was later included in Adolf Hitler’s list of “God-gifted”. On the other hand\, Maria Luiko’s “Mourner”\, the woodcut of an anonymous mourning woman\, was created just one year later. “This anonymous mourning woman is now supposed to cover the powerful male Neptune body in the ruler’s pose\,” writes Melián. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganized by the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art in New York\, in cooperation with the Cultural Department of the Jewish Community in Munich. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is part of our monthly series Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/sweet-kitsch-i-cant-do-that-maria-luiko-1904-1941-with-wolfram-p-kastner-and-mascha-erbelding-both-munich-germany/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T193000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230309T211401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230309T211401Z UID:10000869-1680027300-1680031800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Framing Identity: The Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar/Burma DESCRIPTION:The Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University is hosting a community program entitled\n“Framing Identity: The Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar/Burma”\nFeaturing Dr. Alexis Herr and Shwe Maung. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/framing-identity-the-rohingya-genocide-in-myanmar-burma/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230326T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230326T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230228T131940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230228T131940Z UID:10000866-1679839200-1679844600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Victimization of Jewish Women Survivors by Their Soviet Liberators DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new four part series:\nViolated!:  Sexual Abuse During and After the Holocaust\nVictimization of Jewish Women Survivors by Their Soviet Liberators\n  \nGuest Speaker: Dr. Daina S. Eglitis \nDr. Eglitis’s talk discusses the phenomenon of sexual violence at liberation\, specifically\, assaults committed by Soviet Army liberators against Jewish women survivors. Testimonies and memoirs reveal that survival of Nazi captivity was perceived by some Soviet troops as evidence of complicity\, which fostered a thirst for revenge\, and that soldiers sometimes sought to exact payment for freedom from women survivors. Evidence from these sources also points to continuing brutality against survivors seeking to return to homes in the USSR in Soviet filtration camps. \n \nThis program is in partnership with the Remember the Women Institute\, Women in the Holocaust – International Study Center (MORESHET)\, Wagner College Holocaust Center\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Rabin Chair Forum Washington University\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/victimization-of-jewish-women-survivors-by-their-soviet-liberators/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/3-26-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230220T121648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230412T202732Z UID:10000864-1679580000-1679585400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry DESCRIPTION:An 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\n  \nMarch Session  \nAchieving Legal Accountability for WWII Nazi Crimes: Experiences of the Israel National Police and US Department of Justice\n  \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah International (GSI) and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”. \nThis 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nEli M. Rosenbaum will be talking about some of the experiences he has had prosecuting Nazis in the US.  He would explore some of the challenges the US Department of Justice has had to deal\, such as finding documents\, witnesses\, and more years and decades after the crimes were committed\, in another country and continent. \nEli M. Rosenbaum \n Photo credit: US Holocaust Memorial Museum\n \nEli M. Rosenbaum is the longest serving investigator and prosecutor of Nazi war criminals and other human rights violators in world history.  He has served since 2010 as Director of Human Rights Enforcement Strategy and Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP).  In June 2022\, he was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to serve concurrently as Counselor for War Crimes Accountability\, tasked with coordinating efforts across the Justice Department and with other federal agencies and authorities abroad to hold accountable persons responsible for war crimes and other atrocities committed in Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s unprovoked invasion.  Those efforts are spearheaded by DOJ’s newly created War Crimes Accountability Team\, which he heads and which draws on the extensive expertise of HRSP staff\, supplemented by contributions of professionals in other Justice Department components.  A veteran 37-year Justice Department prosecutor\, Rosenbaum served initially as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI)\, eventually serving as OSI’s Director from 1995 to 2010\, when OSI was merged into the newly created HRSP.  OSI was responsible for identifying\, investigating\, and taking legal action against perpetrators of World War II-era Nazi crimes of persecution\, and its mission was later expanded to include persons complicit in human rights crimes committed in post-WWII conflicts.  He is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania\, where he earned undergraduate and MBA degrees\, and Harvard Law School.  He has received numerous awards for his work\, including the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award and the “Heroes in Blue” award of the Anti-Defamation League. \nTamir’s focus will be on Israel Police Unit for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes – Holocaust Survivors’ Legal Retribution.  \nIn 1958\, the Central Office of Judicial Administration for the investigation of Nazi crimes was established in Germany. Documenting the actions of Nazi criminals in preparation for their trial brought the bureau’s representatives to contact the Israeli Police in order to help them gather evidence from Holocaust survivors residing in the country. Consequently\, a police unit was needed to deal with the increasing number of inquiries from Germany. For that purpose\, the unit for the investigation of Nazi crimes was established in the Israeli Police. Two years later\, Adolf Eichmann was captured and brought to Israel. This event deeply affected the sentiments of Israeli society toward the Holocaust. One of the impacts was Holocaust survivors who contacted the unit requesting to provide their testimonies. \nMany of the appeals included names of Nazi criminals who could potentially be located and prosecuted. The special police unit comprised almost completely of Holocaust survivors. The survivors played an important role in collecting and documenting the historical records available to us today. Many of the unit members had lost their families in the Holocaust. It may be conjectured that they sought vengeance upon those who committed the crimes. Nonetheless\, if indeed they had such feelings\, they were translated into long hours of detailed legal work that would lead to proper legal procedures through which it would be possible to bring the perpetrators to justice. \nDr. Tamir Hod \n \nDr. Tamir Hod is a historian in the field of World War II and the Holocaust\, as well as the impact of Holocaust remembrance on Israeli society. The topic of his doctoral thesis was the Demjanjuk trial case in Israel\, under the guidance of Prof. Hanna Yablonka. Dr. Hod researched the role the Ukrainian collaborators played in the Treblinka extermination camp. These days\, Tamir is working on a book about the Nazi Crimes Investigations Unit in the Israeli Police. The unit\, which was founded in 1960\, was mainly composed of Holocaust survivors and contributed greatly to various trials in different places around the world against Nazi criminals and their collaborators. Dr. Tamir Hod teaches at Tel Hai Academic College and Western Galilee Academic College. \nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners\n \n \n \n \n \nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23\, 2023 Dr. Robert Krell Discussion on Psychiatry and the Holocaust\n\nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nApril 27 2023 Education\nMay 18 2023 Film\nJune 15 2023 Police and Military\nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 TBC URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-3/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/22-2-web-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230319T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230319T140000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230210T182418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230210T182759Z UID:10000857-1679216400-1679234400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Barbara G. Arfa Annual Professional Development Conference on Holocaust Education “From Documentation to Social Media: Empowering Students to Analyze (Mis)Information" DESCRIPTION:BARBARA GUTFREUND ARFA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE ON HOLOCAUST EDUCATION 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe face many challenges in Holocaust education: raising awareness of its lessons\, honoring\, and memorializing the victims\, sustaining the relevancy of this event\, and addressing the challenges of those who maintain it never happened. As educators\, we are also responsible to teach our students critical thinking. They must develop information and media literacy and be equipped to identify and expose Holocaust denial and distortion of all kinds. Holocaust denial has become a significant issue. As a further challenge\, our students must learn to expose it without restricting freedom of speech. \nJoin us for this opportunity to hear remarks given by Dr. Michael Berenbaum on the urgency to give these challenges immediate attention and address these issues through education represented in museums\, memorials\, cinema\, and historical documentation. This program will empower educators to safeguard students who might be exposed to manipulation and indoctrination through social media platforms. This program includes a panel presentation\, Q and A\, and professional development workshops led by experts in the field. \nBOTH IN PERSON AND VIA ZOOM \nOur annual Barbara Gutfreund Arfa Professional Development Conference on Holocaust Education provides educators with innovative resources and techniques to teach students about the Holocaust and sustain the lessons of this event for present and future generations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFEATURING:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMICHAEL BERENBAUM\, PHD\n\n\nKeynote Speaker \n\nMichael Berenbaum\, Ph.D: Michael Berenbaum is the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust and a Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University. He is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher. He consults internationally on the conceptual development of museums and the development of historical films about the Holocaust. In the past\, he has served as a distinguished visiting professor at universities across the nation and beyond. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened\, and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. He was also a contributing editor to the Encyclopedia of Genocide. \nDr. Berenbaum’s professional distinction and recognition in establishing\, sustaining\, and developing major Holocaust institutions spans the globe. He also served as historical consultant for numerous documentaries and films about the Holocaust and is the author and editor of twenty-two books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journal articles. He is also the recipient of numerous awards and is recognized as a pillar and pioneer in multiple areas of Holocaust research\, documentation\, education\, and memory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFELICE COHEN\n\n\nWorkshop Presenter \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFelice Cohen\, the grandchild of two Holocaust survivors\, is the author of the award-winning book “What Papa Told Me\,” a memoir about her grandfather’s life before\, during\, and after the war. The book has been endorsed by Elie Wiesel and Yad Vashem\, translated into Polish\, won three honorable mention book awards\, and has sold 35\,000 copies around the world. Aside from having spoken to thousands about her grandfather since 2010\, she is featured in two documentaries focusing on the grandchildren of survivors. Felice’s book has given her the opportunity to speak to nearly 7\,000 students to date and her speaking engagements include libraries\, bookstores\, and book clubs nationally. Felice also facilitates workshops and seminars to train other grandchildren of Holocaust survivors to develop their stories about their own grandparents to share in classrooms around NYC since 2012. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTEVEN FISHER\n\n\nWorkshop Presenter \n\nSteven Fisher is the playwright of The Last Boy…A New Play with Music\, which made its debut Off-Broadway in July of 2021. It tells the story of the 100 boys in Terezin Concentration Camp who fought the Nazis with poetry\, and the one boy who saved them. It won 4 Broadway World Awards for Best New Play\, Best Production\, Best Director\, and Best Performance. In April of 2022\, the play was seen by a sold-out crowd on Broadway at a Yom HaShoah one-night-only benefit performance. A veteran educator\, Steve is honored to be in several schools across New York City as a Holocaust educator. For 25 years\, he was a choral director\, traveling the world and making music with young people. His ensemble was the first in history to perform on all seven continents – including Antarctica. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKAREN KRUGER\n\n\nWorkshop Presenter \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Kruger is a seasoned educator with an MS degree in Education from Bank Street College of Education. She is the Producer and writer of Letters From Brno – a documentary that describes a powerful personal story of parental love and unspeakable tragedy. The film uses personal interviews along with archival footage\, photographs\, documents\, and letters from her grandparents during the years 1939-1941. Karen is the daughter of Holocaust survivor\, Erika Stefanie Turkl Neumann. Karen serves as her family’s historian. It has taken her more than 45 years to piece together this family history and the result has been the documentary film\, Letters From Brno. \nThe Conference’s impact is effective and dramatic: over the years\,  the Conference\, through its thousands of participants\, has touched more than 100\,000 students. \nThe Conference\, which was organized by Marlene Warshawski Yahalom\, PhD\, Director of Education of the American Society for Yad Vashem\,  represents a continued collaborative effort among the American Society for Yad Vashem\, the Association of Teachers of Social Studies of the United Federation of Teachers\, the Educators’ Chapter of the UFT Jewish Heritage Committee\, and Manhattanville College School of Education. \nFor the Conference and its other educational works\, the American Society for Yad Vashem received the 2015 President’s Award for its contributions to social studies education nationally. The award commends the American Society for Yad Vashem for implementing best educational practices in using documents\, inquiry\, critical thinking and action for studying the Holocaust. The Conference is one of many educational programs developed by the American Society for Yad Vashem. \nThe Conference is named in memory of Barbara Gutfreund Arfa\, z’l\, a longstanding supporter of the American Society for Yad Vashem and is sponsored by the Barbara Gutfreund Arfa Endowment Fund for Holocaust Education. This fund was created by Harvey Arfa and Caroline and Morris Massel as a tribute to Barbara Arfa’s commitment to Holocaust education. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/from-documentation-to-social-media-empowering-students-to-analyze-misinformation/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/arfa-conference-website.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T173000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230129T012425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T160003Z UID:10000845-1678896000-1678901400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nMarch 15th 2023\nRefuge Must Be Given\,\nEleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust\n  \nFeaturing: John Sears \n \nJohn Sears’s special interests include landscape history as well as the lives and times of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. \nSears served as executive director of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute from 1986 until 1999 and as associate editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers from 2000–2007. The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Vol. I appeared in 2007. Before joining the Roosevelt Institute\, he taught at Tufts\, Boston University\, and Vassar. \nSears divides his time between Northampton\, MA and Hawley\, a hilltown in Western Massachusetts where his paternal ancestors settled in the late 1700s. He grows trees and produces maple syrup on the land he owns. As a board member of the Sons & Daughters of Hawley\, the town’s historical society\, he helped create Hawley’s Old Town Common historic site. Sears served on the Hawley selectboard from 2013 until 2017. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Disability History Museum. \nBOOK SUMMARY: \nJohn F. Sears\, Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt\, the Jewish Plight and the Founding of Israel (West Lafayette\, IN: Purdue University Press\, 2022) pp. 327. \nThroughout Ken Burns\, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein six hour documentary America and the Holocaust one name kept being mentioned time and again\, Eleanor Roosevelt who in her column My Day\, public statements\, public activities and private exchanges was a fierce advocate of admitting Jewish refugees to the United States in the years when their admission was the difference between life and death. John Sears who has directed the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in the 1980s and 90s and edited Eleanor Roosevelt’s papers\, which were published in 2007 has written an important book detailing her work on behalf of Jewish refugees during her years as First Lady and then\, perhaps more importantly and more effectively in her public career after the death of her husband on April 12\, 1945\, when no longer constrained by the limitations of her role and her marriage she could speak her mind\, lend her name and energies to the post-war refugee crisis. Eleanor Roosevelt then became a fierce advocate for the creation of the Jewish State and was an integral part of the efforts 75 years ago this week to pass the November 19\, 1947 United Nations Resolution supporting the establishment of a separate Jewish and Arab State in Mandate Palestine. \nIt wasn’t supposed to happen quite that way. Judging from her childhood upbringing and the antisemitism that characterized elite\, monied WASP society\, Eleanor Roosevelt was a young antisemite. One can go through her early writings\, family history and see a hatred of Jews shared by her social class\, freely expressed\, seldom condemned\, widely assumed. Ironically\, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s family was far more accepted of Jews who were business colleagues of his father as well as neighbors in Hyde Park. Yet by the time that FDR became Governor – Jews were an essential part of his coalition – and well before he became President Eleanor’s views had changed and as her social circle widened  and her experience broadened\, she enjoyed enduring and close friendships with Jews\, most especially Jewish women\,’ \nUnlike her husband who say things in political terms\, Eleanor Roosevelt saw things in deeply personal terms\, perhaps a reflection of their genders\, perhaps also a reflection of her innate shyness. FDR was outgoing and gregarious. He talked more than he listened. ER visited many places he could not go because of his physical limitations \, she not only saw more but listened more and reflected upon what she heard. \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nApril\, May and June Guests COMING SOON\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring’s Session: A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht:The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews”  Featuring: Rick Richman\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies-4/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0a31904c77b769bccb7c0611a06f41fb-2E98Gt.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230312T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230312T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230225T123317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230225T123519Z UID:10000865-1678629600-1678635000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Violated!:  Sexual Abuse During and After the Holocaust Betrayed: Child Sex Abuse and the Holocaust DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new four part series:\nViolated!:  Sexual Abuse During and After the Holocaust\nBetrayed: Child Sex Abuse and the Holocaust\nGuest speaker: \nDr. Beverley Chalmers \nAlthough rarely mentioned\, sexual assault of children during the Holocaust occurred far more often than we would like to acknowledge. Children were sexually abused in ghettos\, camps\, on transit trains\, while in hiding\, and even when sent to safety outside Europe. They were betrayed by the Nazis\, their rescuers\, their peers\, by those who discounted their experiences after the war\, and by Holocaust scholars who do not acknowledge these events and prefer to keep this a closely guarded secret. The challenges involved in studying child sex abuse during the Holocaust will be addressed. Issues relating to maintaining confidentiality\, and the value of testimony if it is not made available for study\, will be considered. Seeking methods that allow researchers to access and report on such sensitive testimonies remains an essential task if we are to acknowledge the full extent of women’s and children’s lives and honour their experiences. \n \nThis program is in partnership with the Remember the Women Institute\, Women in the Holocaust – International Study Center (MORESHET)\, Wagner College Holocaust Center\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Rabin Chair Forum Washington University\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center \nATTENTION: TIME CHANGE IN ISRAEL\, EUROPE AND SOUTH AFRICA \n2 PM EST | 7 PM CET | 8 PM SAST | 8 PM Israel URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/violated-sexual-abuse-during-and-after-the-holocaust-betrayed-child-sex-abuse-and-the-holocaust/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/12.3-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230130T152054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230312T143024Z UID:10000849-1678374000-1678379400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Speer Goes to Hollywood DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion: With Director Vanessa Lapa and Producer Tomer Eliav moderated by Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nSpeer Goes to Hollywood \nAlbert Speer is an enigma. The highest-ranking Nazi in Nuremberg to be spared the death sentence\, Speer was one of Hitler’s closest confidants and his chief architect\, tasked with rebuilding Berlin as the capital of a global empire. Appointed Minister of Armaments and War production in 1942\, Speer was responsible for 12 million slave laborers. And yet\, even now\, he has the reputation of being the ‘good Nazi’ – a myth he carefully constructed himself. The film meets its protagonist in 1971\, while Speer was working on a screenplay for Paramount Pictures\, based on his memoir “Inside the Third Reich”. \nBased on forty hours of previously unheard audio cassettes\, recorded by screenwriter Andrew Birkin\, it features Speer’s callous attempt to whitewash his past with a feature film. The audio narrative is supplemented by rare archival footage\, from before and during World War II\, during the Nuremberg Trials and later\, during Speer’s retirement as a semi-reclusive country gentleman. At times juxtaposed and at times interwoven\, those three timelines form the narrative of the film that provides ironic and chilling tension. Speer Goes to Hollywood is the film that Speer never made. Thanks to the cassettes\, he is the narrator of his own life story\, but in a way that he never imagined. The rare archival materials selected to illustrate his account offer us a chance to look beyond his words to ponder whether this eloquent but ultimately self-serving narcissist was recording history or recording his story? \n\n\nPress Note\nSpeer Goes to Hollywood offers an intriguing look at the inner workings of a man responsible for the deaths of millions\, yet who consistently strove to be portrayed as an innocent amongst the guilty. This new film by director Vanessa Lapa\, award-winning director of The Decent One (2014)\, is a cautionary tale of how media such as film can be manipulated easily to shape the way that history is remembered. \nAbout the Director Vanessa Lapa \nVanessa Lapa is an Israeli Academy-winning director and producer. She started as an accomplished journalist\, who produced and directed over 100 news reports for Israeli TV. In 2006 she founded Realworks Ltd.\, an independent production company\, specializing in documentary film. Her first TV documentary\, Olmert: Concealed Documentary (2009)\, about Israel’s former Prime Minister was hailed as a uniquely insightful achievement in cinéma verité. Eight years in the making\, the award- winning documentary The Decent One (2014) – a glimpse into the mind of SS chief Heinrich Himmler\, based on his personal diaries – was officially selected for Panorama at the Berlinale. \nVanessa returned to the Berlinale in 2020\, officially selected for “Berlinale Specials”\, with Speer Goes to Hollywood: a feature documentary aboutanother Nazi official – Reichsminister Albert Speer\, one of Hitler’s closest confidants – told in his own words. She was awarded “Best Director” from the Jerusalem Film Festival 2021. Moreover\, the film won “Best Documentary” at the Israeli Academy Awards (“Ophir Awards”) that same year. \n\n\n\nTomer Eliav\, Israeli Academy Award Winning producer. \nBorn and raised in Israel\, graduated as a sound engineer and worked as a sound designer and re-recording mixer at the Mixroom\, the only Dollby Mix stage in Israel for the last 25 years. \nTomer designed and mixed more than 100 features\, documentaries and short films\, lectured for cinema students\, and is a member of the Israeli Academy. Tomer is a co-owner at Realworks Studios\, a production company and post production studio in Tel Aviv. \n\n\n\nAvi Ben-Hur \nScholar in Residence \nAvi Ben-Hur is an Israeli-American scholar and guide who has been living in Jerusalem since 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi directed a national guiding school for Archaeological Seminars. Avi is a lecturer and field guide in the University of Haifa’s Tourism school and has taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. \nAs a scholar in residence\, Avi has run seminars for Classrooms Without Borders and the Florence Melton School for Adult Jewish Education in Greece\, Berlin\, Prague\, Israel and Poland. \nAvi’s expertise lies in the geo-political issues underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict\, Interfaith encounters and in Holocaust studies. \n\n\n\n \n\n \nThank you to our partners:\n\n\n\n\nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-speer-goes-to-hollywood/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/898393a623bb8f2ab03e03b5f043ce76-P4nFjE.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T210000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230216T180307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230216T180448Z UID:10000863-1678300200-1678309200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:“Give us our husbands back” - Civil Resistance Born out of Love in Nazi-Era Berlin DESCRIPTION:“Give us our husbands back”\nCivil Resistance Born out of Love in Nazi-Era Berlin\n  \nThe German Embassy\, the Rosenstrasse Foundation\, and the Goethe-Institut have dedicated an exhibit to the Rosenstrasse Protest\, the largest public demonstration against the deportation of Jews in the Third Reich. The exhibit highlights the courageous women at the center of the protest who fought for their husbands. \nAt the end of February 1943\, the Nazis arrested thousands of Jews in Berlin for deportation to concentration camps. Among those arrested were 1\,800 Jewish men who were married to “Aryan” women. These men were held in a building at Rosenstrasse 2-4 in Berlin-Mitte. Their wives and family members protested in front of the building on Rosenstrasse from late February into early March of 1943\, demanding the men’s release. The imprisoned men eventually returned home. To this day\, the women of Rosenstrasse are inspiring role models for civic engagement. \nBackground: During the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945\, 6 million Jews were murdered across Europe. In 1933\, there were over 500\,000 Jews living in Germany. More than 165\,000 of them were murdered in the years leading up to 1945. The vast majority of the Jewish people who survived in Germany were married to “Aryan” Germans in so-called “mixed marriages”\, including the husbands of the women who protested on Rosenstrasse. \nFrom March 8th -16th\, 2023\, an exhibit depicting these women’s civil courage and their family stories will be on display at the Goethe-Institut Washington. Accompanying the physical display\, a collection of articles will be available online. \nWe cordially invite you to celebrate the exhibit opening with us on March 8th\, International Women’s Day. (Doors open at 6:00 pm. The event will begin at 6:30 pm.) \nOpening Night Program \n\nOpening remarks from the Director of the Goethe-Institut Washington Klaus Krischok\nKeynote speech from the German Ambassador to the United States Dr. Emily Haber\nSpeech from Dr. Susan Neiman\, Rosenstrasse Foundation\nSpeech from Dr. Edna Friedberg\, USHMM\n\nPanel Discussion \n\nRuth Wiseman\, daughter of Rosenstrasse Protest survivors\nDr. Nathan Stoltzfus\, historian and author of the book Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany\nModeration: Dr. Michael Brenner\, LMU Munich & American University\n\nQ&A \nFollowing the panel\, historian Dr. Mordecai Paldiel will offer a guided tour through the exhibit. \nThis event is a cooperation between the German Embassy\, the Rosenstrasse Foundation\, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum\, and the Goethe-Institut Washington. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/give-us-our-husbands-back-civil-resistance-born-out-of-love-in-nazi-era-berlin/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230208T183306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T193616Z UID:10000854-1678287600-1678291200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:WOMEN IN THE HOLOCAUST: THEIR DAY-TO-DAY STRUGGLES DESCRIPTION:WOMEN IN THE HOLOCAUST: \nTHEIR DAY-TO-DAY STRUGGLES\n \n  \nAs the Holocaust escalated\, conditions worsened in the ghettos and camps. Women and mothers were preoccupied with daily survival\, providing food for their families\, and staving off illness. Using diaries\, memoirs\, and testimonies\, this session will look at the life-and-death dilemmas that women faced during the Holocaust\, and their attempts to resist dehumanization and death. Yad Vashem’s Project Director for Echoes & Reflections\, Sheryl Ochayon\, will present this webinar in honor of Women’s History Month. \n  \n  \n  \nSheryl Silver Ochayon \n \nSheryl Silver Ochayon holds a law degree from Harvard Law School\, a BA in History from the State University of New York at Binghamton\, and a Certificate in Genocide Studies from Stockton University. After a long legal career\, she followed her passion for Holocaust education. In 2005 she began working for the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem as a guide in the Holocaust history Museum\, writing and developing online courses for educators around the world\, and creating educational videos. \nCurrently\, Sheryl is Yad Vashem’s Program Director for Echoes & Reflections\, a program that empowers American middle and high school educators to confidently teach the Holocaust with dynamic classroom materials and professional development. Sheryl has represented Yad Vashem in different contexts both in the US and in Israel at seminars and international conferences\, and at the United Nations. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/women-in-the-holocaust-their-day-to-day-struggles/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T173000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230131T205536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230312T142852Z UID:10000851-1678204800-1678210200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:DISCOVERING THE "JEWISH JESUS" DESCRIPTION:In this three-session course\, we will seek to uncover the figure of “Jesus the Jew” from the pages of the New Testament.\n\n\nPresumably\, this should not be difficult. After all\, the New Testament contains a great deal of information about the life and teachings of Jesus. \nHowever\, according to most academic scholars of the New Testament\, there is a chronological gap which spans some forty to seventy years between the death of Jesus and the writing of the Four Gospels\, the primary record of his life and teachings. This can be an obstacle in our quest to uncover\, as Amy-Jill Levine\, a prominent Jewish scholar of the New Testament puts it\, “the man from Nazareth as he was understood in his own context and as he understood himself.” \nWe will begin by recreating the Jewish milieu of Jesus’ world – in other words\, the period of late Second Temple Judaism. Against this backdrop\, we will draw on the Gospel material to examine the nature of Jesus’ relationship to Judaism. \nIn the second session\, we will explore the vexed question of the Gospel writers’ portrayal of Jesus’ relationship to the Jews of his day and consider whether\, as some would argue\, the New Testament is an anti-Jewish document. \nThe final session will take place a month or so before the advent of Passover and Easter. Accordingly\, we will closely examine whether there is any substance to the commonly held view that Jesus’ Last Supper was a Passover meal \n\nPaul Forgasz \n\n\nFor more than a decade\, Paul Forgasz was principal of the secondary (grades 7-12) campus of Mt Scopus College\, a large K-12 Jewish day school in Melbourne\, Australia. He also lectured in Bible and Jewish history at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and taught about Jewish education\, as well as school leadership\, in the university’s Faculty of Education. Since 2010\, Paul has also curated and led Jewish study tours to various European destinations under the auspices of the Jewish Museum of Australia. For most of his professional life\, Paul has also been actively involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue and he also works closely with teachers in the Catholic education sector. \n\n1st Session February 7th 2023\n2nd Session February 21 2023\n3rd Session March 7 2023\n\nThis is a 3 session course: You only need to register ONCE and will be sent the ZOOM link before each session. \nWe are offering PA Educators 5 Professional Development hours for attending the entirety of this course. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/discovering-the-jewish-jesus-3/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/7aa4b18aa071bf33161e37b9a8dccd0f-uAHbFL.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230305T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230305T183000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230214T130200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230214T130247Z UID:10000858-1678035600-1678041000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY: Something Beautiful Happened DESCRIPTION: Something Beautiful Happened\nA Virtual Evening with Author and Producer\nYvette Manessis Corporon\nin Conversation with\nDr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff\n  \n \nSeventy years after her Greek Orthodox grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during the Holocaust\, her granddaughter\, Yvette\, sets out to track down the Jewish family’s descendants and discovers a new way to understand tragedy\, forgiveness\, and the power of kindness. \n\n\nYvette Manessis Corporon\, today a famous TV producer\, grew up listening to her grandmother’s stories about how the people of the small Greek island\, named Erikousa\, hid a Jewish family from the Nazis during the Holocaust.\nYears later\, Yvette couldn’t get the story of the Jewish tailor out of her head. She decided to track down the man’s descendants and eventually found them in Israel.\n\nDon’t miss this riveting history and its powerful unexpected ending!\n\n  \nAbout Yvette Manessis Corporon\nYvette Manessis Corporon is an Internationally Best-Selling author and Emmy Award winning producer. She is the author of When the Cypress Whispers (Harper\, 2014) and Something Beautiful Happened (Howard\,\n2017) and Where The Wandering Ends (coming 2022\, Harper Muse). To date\, Yvette’s books have been translated into 16 languages. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY with her husband\, two children\, and the sweetest little white lab you’ve ever seen. \nYvette is three-time Emmy Award winning journalist who has traveled the world covering the biggest stories in news and entertainment. She is currently a Senior Producer with EXTRA. Yvette is also a recipient of the Silurian Award for Excellence in Journalism and the New York City Comptroller and City Council’s Award for Greek Heritage and Culture. A native New Yorker and daughter of Greek immigrants\, Yvette studied Journalism and Classical Civilizations at NYU. She loves combining both of her passions and crafting stories from little known moments in history and mythology. \nAll Sunday Salon Series Programs are In Honor of Hidden Child Survivor\, Judy Rodan \n  \n \n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/something-beautiful-happened/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/U-OF-M.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230305T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230305T143000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230215T182235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T182537Z UID:10000862-1678021200-1678026600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:A Community Lecture by Prof. Dr. Albert Lichtblau DESCRIPTION:You are invited to join our Vienna/Prague Study Seminar 2024 Participants for an In Person Lecture by \nDr. Prof. Dr. Albert Lichtblau\n\n\n\n\nProf. Dr. Albert Lichtblau \nDeputy Director\, Center of Jewish Culture History\, University of Salzburg\, Austria \nAlbert Lichtblau is the vice-chair of the Centre for Jewish Cultural History and a university professor in the Department of History at the University of Salzburg. Prior to this he was a research associate at the Center for Research on anti-Semitism at the Technische Universität Berlin\, Germany\, and at the Institute of Jewish History\, St. Pölten\, Austria. His fields of scholarly expertise are Jewish studies\, genocide and migration studies\, oral history and audiovisual history. Professor Lichtblau holds degrees in History and Political Science from the University of Vienna. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/a-community-lecture-by-prof-dr-albert-lichtblau/ LOCATION:1435 Bedford Ave suite A\, Pittsburgh\, PA 15219\, 1435 Bedford Avenue\, #suite A\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15219\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/20e1a5c47e7e294dbab4c445fd70352b-fCrlqG.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230208T172629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T193645Z UID:10000853-1677682800-1677686400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:My Father Was A Nazi DESCRIPTION:My Father Was A Nazi\nArthur Wollschlaeger was a decorated German tank commander during the Second World War and was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler. After the war\, Arthur and his wife concealed his role in the Holocaust and constructed a new narrative of his activity during those years. But to their teenage son Bernd\, the story didn’t quite add up\, and Bernd started a search for the truth. In this webinar\, Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger – today a Jewish convert\, veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces\, and physician – shares the story of his spiritual journey coming to terms with his father’s past. \n \n \n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/my-father-was-a-nazi/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T133000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230214T152134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230214T182853Z UID:10000859-1677672000-1677677400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:DOROTHY BOHM (B. 1924): A WORLD OBSERVED Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen\, London (UK) DESCRIPTION:DOROTHY BOHM (B. 1924): A WORLD OBSERVED\nLecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen\, London (UK)\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDorothy Bohm was born Dorothea Israelit in Königsberg\, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad\, Russia) in 1924 into an assimilated\, affluent and cultured Jewish milieu. In 1932 her father chose to move the family to Memel (now Klaipeda) in Lithuania\, but following the Nazi occupation of Memelland in March 1939\, her parents decided to send their daughter\, aged 14\, to the safety of England\, where she arrived in June 1939. She wasn’t to see her parents and sister again for over twenty years. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage above (appears as detail): Dorothy Bohm\, Venice Carnival\, 1987 © Dorothy Bohm Archive\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDorothy Bohm\, Ascona\, 1948. © Dorothy Bohm Archive      Dorothy Bohm\, Self-Portrait\, 1942\, age 18. © Dorothy Bohm Archive \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter a year at school in Sussex\, she studied photography in Manchester and opened her own portrait studio in the city at the age of 21. In the late 1940s a visit to Switzerland prompted her to start working outside the studio\, and by the late 1950s she had abandoned studio portraiture for street photography\, working in black and white until the early 1980s before moving totally to colour. Her first exhibition\, People at Peace\, was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts\, London\, in 1969\, and her first book\, A World Observed was published in 1970. Closely involved in the founding of The Photographers’ Gallery in the early 1970s\, she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2009. \nWith a career spanning over seven decades and numerous exhibitions and publications to her name\, Dorothy Bohm is widely regarded as one of the doyennes of British photography. Now aged 98\, she remains deeply engaged with her photographic practice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDorothy Bohm\, Cairo\, 1986. © Dorothy Bohm Archive      Dorothy Bohm\, Market Stall\, Islington\, London\, 1960s. © Dorothy Bohm Archive\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLondon-based art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen will give her personal insights into the life and work of her mother\, photographer Dorothy Bohm\, who as a girl of fourteen found sanctuary from Nazi Europe in the UK\, and in due course established herself as one of the leading figures in post-war British photography. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonica Bohm-Duchen is a freelance writer\, lecturer\, and curator. Based in London\, the institutions she has worked for the Courtauld Institute of Art\, Sotheby’s Institute of Art\, Tate\, the National Gallery\, the Royal Academy of Arts and the University of London. She has been acting as the curator of her mother Dorothy Bohm’s photographic archive since the late 1990s\, and in 2010 curated the first retrospective exhibition of her work\, A World Observed 1940-2010: Photographs by Dorothy Bohm. A version of this exhibition is currently touring eastern Europe. Monica is the founding Director of Insiders/Outsiders\, an ongoing celebration of  the contribution of refugees from Nazi Europe to British culture (https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/) and contributing editor of the companion volume\, Insiders/Outsiders\, Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Culture (Lund Humphries\, 2019). She is currently co-editing a special issue of History of Photography journal dedicated to the women émigré photographers who came to the UK after 1933. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDorothy Bohm by Rick Stoller\, 2015 © Dorothy Bohm Archive \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMORE INFORMATION ON DOROTHY BOHM WEBSITE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is part of our monthly series Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression. \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/dorothy-bohm-b-1924-a-world-observed-lecture-by-monica-bohm-duchen-london-uk/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230130T185522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T023403Z UID:10000850-1677160800-1677166200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry DESCRIPTION:A NEW 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\n  \nOur 1st Session will feature Dr. Robert Krell Discussion on Psychiatry and the Holocaust \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”.  \nThis 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nDr. Robert Krell \n \nRobert Krell C.M.\, M.D.\, F.R.C.P.(C)\nProfessor Emeritus\, Department of Psychiatry\, University of British Columbia \nDr. Robert Krell was born in Holland and survived the Holocaust in hiding. The Krell family moved to Vancouver\, Canada where he obtained an MD from the University of British Columbia and eventually became professor of psychiatry. Dr. Krell was Director of Child Psychiatry and also treated Holocaust survivors and their families as well as Dutch survivors of Japanese concentration camps. \nHe established a Holocaust education program for high school students in 1976\, an audio-visual documentation program recording survivor testimony in 1978 and assisted with the formation of child survivor groups starting in 1982. Dr. Krell served on the International Advisory Council of the Hidden Child Gathering in New York in 1991.\nHe founded the Vancouver Holocaust Education Center which opened in 1994 and which teaches 20\,000 students annually. \nFor his activities in Holocaust education and remembrance\, human rights and social justice\, he has received the State of Israel Bonds Elie Wiesel Remembrance Award\, the Boston University Hillel Lifetime Achievement Award\, the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal\, the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award as well as special recognition from the World Federation of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors and Descendants. On December 30\, 2020 he was awarded Canada’s highest civilian honour\, the Order of Canada. \nHe has authored and co-edited ten books\, twenty-one book chapters and over fifty journal articles. His memoir Sounds from Silence: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor\, Psychiatrist and Teacher was published in 2021. \nPresently his interests remain the psychiatric treatment of aging survivors of massive trauma and participating in programs against racism and prejudice. Dr. Krell is married and has three children and nine grandchildren. \nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners\n \n \n \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nMarch 23 2023  Ethics and Law \nApril 27 2023 Education\nMay 18 2023 Film\nJune 15 2023 Police and Military \nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 TBC URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/22-2-web-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T173000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230131T205700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230223T080238Z UID:10000852-1676995200-1677000600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:DISCOVERING THE "JEWISH JESUS" DESCRIPTION:In this three-session course\, we will seek to uncover the figure of “Jesus the Jew” from the pages of the New Testament.\n\n\nPresumably\, this should not be difficult. After all\, the New Testament contains a great deal of information about the life and teachings of Jesus. \nHowever\, according to most academic scholars of the New Testament\, there is a chronological gap which spans some forty to seventy years between the death of Jesus and the writing of the Four Gospels\, the primary record of his life and teachings. This can be an obstacle in our quest to uncover\, as Amy-Jill Levine\, a prominent Jewish scholar of the New Testament puts it\, “the man from Nazareth as he was understood in his own context and as he understood himself.” \nWe will begin by recreating the Jewish milieu of Jesus’ world – in other words\, the period of late Second Temple Judaism. Against this backdrop\, we will draw on the Gospel material to examine the nature of Jesus’ relationship to Judaism. \nIn the second session\, we will explore the vexed question of the Gospel writers’ portrayal of Jesus’ relationship to the Jews of his day and consider whether\, as some would argue\, the New Testament is an anti-Jewish document. \nThe final session will take place a month or so before the advent of Passover and Easter. Accordingly\, we will closely examine whether there is any substance to the commonly held view that Jesus’ Last Supper was a Passover meal \n\nPaul Forgasz \n\n\nFor more than a decade\, Paul Forgasz was principal of the secondary (grades 7-12) campus of Mt Scopus College\, a large K-12 Jewish day school in Melbourne\, Australia. He also lectured in Bible and Jewish history at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and taught about Jewish education\, as well as school leadership\, in the university’s Faculty of Education. Since 2010\, Paul has also curated and led Jewish study tours to various European destinations under the auspices of the Jewish Museum of Australia. For most of his professional life\, Paul has also been actively involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue and he also works closely with teachers in the Catholic education sector. \n\n1st Session February 7th 2023\n2nd Session February 21 2023\n3rd Session March 7 2023\n\nThis is a 3 session course: You only need to register ONCE and will be sent the ZOOM link before each session. \nWe are offering PA Educators 5 Professional Development hours for attending the entirety of this course. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/discovering-the-jewish-jesus-2-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/7aa4b18aa071bf33161e37b9a8dccd0f-uAHbFL.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230124T195949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T195949Z UID:10000843-1676815200-1676820600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters' House invites you to a new four part series: Violated!: Sexual Abuse During and After the Holocaust: 2nd Session DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new four part series: Violated!: Sexual Abuse During and After the Holocaust\nThe second program will take place on Sunday\, February 19th: Birth\, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices under Nazi Rule \n\nGuest Speaker: \nDr. Beverley Chalmers \nThe Nazis abused reproduction and sexuality to create an ideological ‘Master Race.’ They prohibited those deemed ‘Life unworthy of life’ from having sex or reproducing while promoting these among those deemed ‘worthy of life.’ Holocaust literature gives exhaustive attention to ‘direct’ means of exterminating Jews\, by using gas chambers\, torture\, starvation\, disease\, and intolerable conditions in ghettos and camps\, and by the Einsatzgruppen. Manipulating reproduction and sexuality – as a less ‘direct\,’ but also abusive\, method of genocide of Jews\, or its antithesis – geno-coercion among ‘Aryans\,’- has not yet received the same attention\, and will be examined in this presentation. \nThis program is in partnership with the Remember the Women Institute\, Women in the Holocaust – International Study Center (MORESHET)\, Wagner College Holocaust Center\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Rabin Chair Forum Washington University\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-ghetto-fighters-house-invites-you-to-a-new-four-part-series-violated-sexual-abuse-during-and-after-the-holocaust-2nd-session/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/19.2-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T173000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230129T012425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T160651Z UID:10000844-1676476800-1676482200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring’s Session\nA Discussion Surrounding \n“Ben Hecht:The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews”  Featuring: Rick Richman\n  \nBen Hecht was a journalist\, author\, essayist\, screenwriter\, polemicist\, Zionist — and a prophet. Learn how this one-man multimedia operation sent the English language into battle on behalf of the European Jews\, at their moment of greatest peril — and forced the Roosevelt Administration to respond. \nFeaturing: Rick Richman \nRick Richman is a resident scholar at American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He has written for Commentary\, Mosaic\, The New York Sun\, The Jewish Journal\, The Jewish Press\, The New York Post\, PJ Media\, and other publications\, and is the author of Racing Against History: The 1940 Campaign for a Jewish Army to Fight Hitler (Encounter Books\, 2018). \nBOOK SUMMARY: \nAnd None Shall Make Them Afraid recounts the story of how Zionism\, supported by Americanism\, created a modern miracle—told through the little-known stories of eight individuals who collectively changed history. \nThe book presents eight historic figures—four from Europe (Theodor Herzl\, Chaim Weizmann\, Vladimir Jabotinsky\, Abba Eban) and four from America (Louis D. Brandeis\, Golda Meir\, Ben Hecht\, Ron Dermer)—who reflect the intellectual and social revolutions that Zionism and Americanism brought to the world. \nIn some cases\, the stories have been forgotten; in other cases\, misrepresented; in still others\, not yet given their full due. But they are central to the miraculous recovery of the Jewish people in the twentieth century. Taken together\, they recount both a people’s return to its place among the nations and the impact on history that a single individual can make. \nMore than a century ago\, after studying the early Zionist texts\, Louis Brandeis concluded that Jews were the “trustees” of their history\, charged to “carry forward what others\, in the past\, have borne so well.” The stories in this book—recording the extraordinary efforts of extraordinary individuals that created the modern state of Israel and then sustained it—reinforce Brandeis’s observation for our own time. \nThe story of Zionism\, and its interaction with Americanism\, is a continuing one. The book is thus not only about the past\, but the present and future as well. \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nMarch 15th 2023 John Sears: Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust. \nApril\, May and June Guests COMING SOON\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies-5/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0a31904c77b769bccb7c0611a06f41fb-2E98Gt.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20221222T132603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221222T132829Z UID:10000699-1676300400-1676304000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Love After Loss DESCRIPTION:Love After Loss\nIn time for Valentine’s Day\, this webinar\, facilitated by Sheryl Ochayon\, will reveal the love stories behind survivors’ attempts to “return to life” after the Holocaust. Just as love often allowed survivors to retain their humanity during the Holocaust\, love after liberation also helped them recover their humanity in the face of destruction. We will tell their stories and discover lessons about resilience and the human spirit.\n\nThis webinar connects with Echoes & Reflections’ Unit 6: Liberation. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/love-after-loss/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230212T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230212T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230112T184404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230118T215501Z UID:10000710-1676210400-1676215800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:My First Sony DESCRIPTION:A one-man play featuring Israeli actor-director Roy Horovitz\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders in partnership with Rodef Shalom Congregation present My First Sony\, an award-winning monodrama\, which has toured Israel and the globe to great acclaim and rave reviews for more than 20 years. Based on Benny Barbash’s bestseller by the same name\, the play tells the story of Yotam\, an eleven-year-old child\, who becomes obsessed with documenting his life after receiving a children’s tape recorder\, his “First Sony.” Yotam records events involving his family\, and we hear their voices\, their struggles and heartbreak. He presents his findings with naïve honesty and humor\, which help to soften the painful coming-of-age played so expertly. \n\n\nTHIS IS AN IN PERSON EVENT \nRodef Shalom Congregation \n4905 Fifth Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA 15213 \nLevy Hall \nSuggested Donation is $10. Reserved Seating $25\n \nPlease make a donation and support CWB to keep transformational educational programming free to the schools and students. \nMake your donation to reserve your seat now! \nhttps://secure.givelively.org/donate/jewish-federation-of-greater-pittsburgh/suggested-donations-my-first-sony \nAND DON”T FORGET TO ALSO REGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE \nOn The Left Hand Side Panel \n \n\n\nMasks may be required at this performance depending on the COVID levels in Allegheny County. We will inform you of any requirements by February 10\, 2023. \n\n\nIN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\nAcclaim for My First Sony: \n” A beautiful and very well acted play… Not a dull moment. Horovitz is sensitive\, natural and convincing. He successfully plays a child without falling into childishness\, and gains sympathy without gushing ‘shmaltz’ ” (The Daily Yediot Aharonot\, Israel) \n“A pleasant surprise. It is beautifully crafted and performed” (Judy Unwin\, Global T.V.\, Canada) \n“A document of real emotion. Affecting production\, performed with sensitivity by Roy Horovitz… ‘MY FIRST SONY’ is not a soap opera. The story feels genuine\, Yotam is every 11-year-old you’ve ever met and the story-teller avoid milking his story for cheap emotions and tears. There will be tears but they will be very real” (Colin Maclean\, EdmontonSun) URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/my-first-sony/ LOCATION:Rodef Shalom Congregation: Levy Hall\, 4905 Fifth Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Roy-Horowitz-w-hyperlink-WEBPAGE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20230109T202329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T143224Z UID:10000707-1675954800-1675960200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Sabotage: A SNEAK PEAK DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Sabotage: with Director Noa Aharoni\, Illustrator Avi Katz\, moderated by Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nJanuary 1945\, less than two weeks before the evacuation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp\, four forced laborers women\, Estusia Wajcblum\, Rosa Robota\, Ella Gartner\, and Regina Safirstein were hanged in public\, accused of sabotaging the Nazi war machine. \nUnder the horrific inferno of Auschwitz\, Anna Wajcblum Heilman\, Estusia’s sister and the youngest member of the women’s resistance underground writes a diary\, describing how over thirty Jewish women\, forced laborers of the “Union” munition factory\, took part in a dangerous smuggling operation\, stealing small portions of gunpowder from the factory and passing it from one to another until it gets to the Sonderkommando men\, planning a large-scale rebellion. \nOn October 7th 1944\, the rebellion spontaneously erupted and prisoners lit up crematorium no 4. In the SS investigation\, some gunpowder from the “Union” was found and suspicions against the women workers were raised. In the dark basements of Auschwitz\, the SS brutally tortured Estusia\, Regina\, Rosa\, and Ella to obtain information about the revolt. \nThe four took sole blame for the entire underground activity to protect their friends and sisters and were publicly hanged. \nThrough the eyes of Anna Wajcblum Heilman\, Sabotage tells the day-to-day routine of the camp which consists also of many little moments of camaraderie and friendship between young women shaped under harsh circumstances. \n \n\n \n\n\nNoa Aharoni \nWinner of the Best Documentary Film Award (Forum of Documentary Creators\, Israel). Nominated for the Ophir Award for Best Documentary. Noa Aharoni graduated with a degree in TV and Cinema from Sapir College in 1994. In 2017 her documentary movie “Shadows” about the abuse among the second generation of the Holocaust by their survivor parents\, was selected for the prestigious Docaviv Film Festival and IDFA. “By Summer’s End”\, Noah’s first feature film from 2011 has won a Distribution Award and was nominated for the Awards of the Israeli Academy. The film was screened at Haifa International Film Festival (Honorable Mention) and Rehovot Women Film Festival. \n\n\n\nDirectors Statement: \nWhen I ask myself what attracted me to the making of the film “Sabotage”\, my answer is unequivocal. The female perspective on the Holocaust\, or if you will\, the heroism of women in the Holocaust. The story of the women and their rebellion has been forgotten from the pages of history\, in this film I seek to continue the process they had begun so long ago\, to give these women faces and names\, and to talk about their courage. This film brings their story to memory and consciousness\, thereby correcting the historical injustice. \nAnother challenge that I wanted to crack is a cinematic challenge. I want to talk about a plot that took place 75 years ago\, with contemporary and interesting aesthetic and cinematic tools. I am a director of both feature films and documentaries and the combination of them in my opinion\, in this film\, is the secret that will bring the viewer to the emotional place I am looking for in my films. \n\n\nAvi Katz \nAvi A. Katz\, aka Avitz\, is a graduate from the School of Visual Arts who made his start working on Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues in New York City. His training in animation is evident in his observational pieces\, which make striking use of color and shading. One of the artist’s favorite subjects to draw is cities\, urban landscapes\, and buildings\, which he enhances with details of people\, streetlights\, skylines\, and electrical wires. The artist’s skill is best displayed in his meticulously created renderings of urban scenes\, which showcase his keen eye. Using predominantly chalk and markers for his illustrations\, Avitz contrasts warm and cold tones with bold strokes of dark color to give his pieces more weight. His unconventional approach to the medium and whimsical art style aim to blur the lines between fine art and graphic design. \nAvi Ben-Hur \nScholar in Residence \nAvi Ben-Hur is an Israeli-American scholar and guide who has been living in Jerusalem since 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi directed a national guiding school for Archaeological Seminars. Avi is a lecturer and field guide in the University of Haifa’s Tourism school and has taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. \nAs a scholar in residence\, Avi has run seminars for Classrooms Without Borders and the Florence Melton School for Adult Jewish Education in Greece\, Berlin\, Prague\, Israel and Poland. \nAvi’s expertise lies in the geo-political issues underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict\, Interfaith encounters and in Holocaust studies. \n\n\n\nThank you to our partners:\n\n\n\n\nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-sabotage/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Copy-of-POSTER3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T173000 DTSTAMP:20260709T022148 CREATED:20221214T171054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230201T153131Z UID:10000841-1675872000-1675877400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Healing\, Hope and Resiliency: A Pedagogical Tool for Holocaust Education DESCRIPTION:Ted Comet\, will take us on a journey to view five unique tapestries woven by his late wife\, Shoshana Comet\, Holocaust survivor\, therapist.\n\n\nDemonstration of a unique teaching tool for educators\n\nNOTE: \nThis is an interactive session. Please be aware that Q and A will be embedded in the session\, and participants will be encouraged to have their camera turned on.\n\nJust in the past few years\, Ted Comet\, a 98-year old Jewish community leader\, has welcomed approximately 1\,000 people into his home virtually to view five unique tapestries woven by his late wife\, Shoshana. Shoshana was a Holocaust survivor\, psychotherapist and artist. Each tapestry is a testament to the power of the mind to turn trauma into creative and healing energy. A lifelong friend of Elie Wiesel\, Ted is an eloquent speaking with an inspirational story about suffering\, loss and healing that participants will never forget. \n\n\nIn Partnership With URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/healing-hope-and-resilience-through-art-holocaust-tapestries-tour/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Email-Promo-48.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR