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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.
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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
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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.
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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/
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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.
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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/
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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 
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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.
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LOCATION:1435 Bedford Ave suite A\, Pittsburgh\, PA 15219\, 1435 Bedford Avenue\, #suite A\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15219\, United States
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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/
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T140000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T160000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T140000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T173000
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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.
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LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T150000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230212T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230212T153000
DTSTAMP:20260709T180817
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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)
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LOCATION:Rodef Shalom Congregation: Levy Hall\, 4905 Fifth Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T163000
DTSTAMP:20260709T180817
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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/
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230207T173000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230205T170000
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SUMMARY:Sunday Salon Series - with Dr. Wendy Lower in Conversation with Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff
DESCRIPTION:DR. WENDY LOWER\nAuthor and Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College\nWendy Lower’s stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front powerfully revises history\, proving that we have ignored the reality of women’s participation in the Holocaust\, including as brutal killers. The long-held picture of German women holding down the home front during the war\, as loyal wives and cheerleaders for the Führer\, pales in comparison to Lower’s incisive case for the massive complicity\, and worse\, of the 500\,000 young German women she places\, for the first time\, directly in the killing fields of the expanding Reich.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/sunday-salon-series-with-dr-wendy-lower-in-conversation-with-dr-miriam-klein-kassenoff/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230205T153000
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SUMMARY:The Photographer’s Son  An Author’s Presentation by Maya C. Klinger
DESCRIPTION:Association of Jewish Libraries Capital Area Chapter (AJL/CAC)  with the support of AJL National present \nThe Photographer’s Son  \n \nAn Author’s Presentation by Maya C. Klinger \nThe Photo that Saved Us (Hatsilum she histil otanu)  by Maya C. Klinger won the Book Prize for an Outstanding Holocaust-related Book for Children and Youth from Yad Vashem. Now translated into English\, The Photographer’s Son tells the true story of the Mandil family\, who lived in Yugoslavia before World War II. The book details the family’s escape from the Nazis and their rescue by an Albanian Muslim family\, the Vesilis.  In 2004\, the Vesilis were recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations for saving the Mandils and other Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. Klinger-Cohen’s book “conveys educational values and brings children and youth closer to the topic of the Holocaust.” The author will discuss her works as well as the role of Albanian Muslims in rescuing Jews during the Holocaust.  \nProgram is free and open to the public.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-photographers-son-an-authors-presentation-by-maya-c-klinger/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230201T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230201T160000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20221222T132249Z
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Films You Can Use in the Classroom: A Guide
DESCRIPTION:Holocaust Films You Can Use in the Classroom: A Guide\n\n\nHow can teachers use Holocaust films in the classroom\, and which should they use?\n\nJoin us as we host Rich Brownstein\, a leading expert who will answer these questions. Rich has recently published the “Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films\, with a Teaching Guide” which has been endorsed by scholars from around the world.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-films-you-can-use-in-the-classroom-a-guide/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230129T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230129T153000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230201T115211Z
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SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters' House invites you to a new four part series:  Violated!:  Sexual Abuse During and After the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new four part series:\nViolated!: Sexual Abuse During and After the Holocaust\nThe first program will take place on Sunday\, January 29th: \nSexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust: Challenges and Reflections\nOpening Remarks: \nDr. Sharon Geva \nGuest Speakers: \nDr. Sonja M. Hedgepeth\nDr. Rochelle G. Saidel \nDr. Sonja M. Hedgepeth and Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel\, editors\, discuss their 2010 groundbreaking book on the subject of sexual violence against Jewish women during the Holocaust. They pay tribute to early researchers on the subject and reflect on the continued challenges for scholars. Including this subject in Holocaust history provides a fuller understanding of what many women endured. \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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230127T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230127T160000
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SUMMARY:CWB Holocaust Remembrance Day:  2023 Community Wide Teach In
DESCRIPTION:2023 Theme: “Home and Belonging”\n\n\nThe United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.\n  \nOn this annual day of commemoration\, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.\n  \nAt CWB we believe that begins in the classroom.\n  \nWe thank you for all you do to inspire students by promoting universal human values of diversity\, altruism\, forgiveness\, courage\, respect and faith in humanity.\n  \nCWB is curating Resources\, Lesson Plans\, Teaching Tools to facilitate your Classroom Instruction.\nAll Registrants will be sent the curated resources for our Community Wide Teach In!\n\n\n  \nCWB hopes that ALL Educators will teach the lessons of the Holocaust in an effort combat antisemitism\, genocide and hate \,through transformative educational opportunities focused on diversity\, inclusion\, and respect.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/cwb-holocaust-remembrance-day-2023-community-wide-teach-in/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T160000
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SUMMARY:Brand New Resource Launch – Student Podcast: The Human Spirit in the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Brand New Resource Launch – Student Podcast: The Human Spirit in the Holocaust\n  \nIntroducing a brand-new podcast for students from Echoes & Reflections! We are excited to launch the first three episodes which highlight remarkable stories of courage from the Holocaust. The podcast illuminates the strength of the human spirit in the darkest of times\, providing inspiration for our students.\n\nJoin us for this webinar in which Sheryl Ochayon\, Program Director of Echoes & Reflections at Yad Vashem\, will showcase this new resource\, demonstrate how to use it in the classroom\, and its alignment to Echoes & Reflections lesson plans.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/brand-new-resource-launch-student-podcast-the-human-spirit-in-the-holocaust/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T140000
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SUMMARY:AS SEEN THROUGH THESE EYES Conversation with Film Director Hilary Helstein\, Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:AS SEEN THROUGH THESE EYES\nConversation with Film Director Hilary Helstein\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn honor of UN Holocaust Remembrance Day\, Hilary Helstein\, director of the award-winning documentary “As Seen Through These Eyes” speaks about the making of her documentary. Introduced and interviewed by Rachel Stern\, director of the Fritz Ascher Society New York. \n \nAs poet Maya Angelou narrates this powerful documentary\, she reveals the story of a brave group of people who fought Hitler with the only weapons they had: charcoal\, pencil stubs\, shreds of paper and memories etched in their minds. These artists took their fate into their own hands to make a compelling statement about the human spirit\, enduring against unimaginable odds. Featuring interviews with Simon Wiesenthal as he talks about his art\, never before appearing in a film\, the children of Theresienstadt\, Dina Babbitt\, personal artist to Dr. Mengele\, and Gypsy artist\, Karl Stojka. Score features music by Sony/BMG’s Anna Nalick and Lorin Sklamberg of The Klezmatics. \nThis event is dedicated to the memory of Fred Terna (1923-2022)\, who died on 9 December 2022\, at the age of 99 years.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/as-seen-through-these-eyes-conversation-with-film-director-hilary-helstein-los-angeles/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T173000
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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. \nJanuary’s Session \nA conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The One 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. \nMost viewers of the PBS series by Ken Burns\, Lynn Novick\, and Sarah Botstein\, The U.S. and the Holocaust\, will learn for the first time about the remarkable rescue effort run in Marseille\, France in 1940-41 by a young intellectual named Varian Fry.\nVeteran documentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage is completing at last for a 2023 release his feature documentary\, And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry and the Refugee Crisis\, Marseille\, 1940-41. Filming for this important American saga began in 1998\, notably with key witnesses (mostly no longer with us) and many prominent historians. Among the stars of the documentary will be Sauvage’s friends the late American heroes Mary Jayne Gold\, Miriam Davenport Ebel\, and Charles Fawcett. (Varian Fry and Mary Jayne Gold will also be portrayed in the upcoming fictionalized Netflix limited series Transatlantic.)\nThe Varian Fry Institute is a division of the Chambon Foundation\, founded in 1982 by Pierre Sauvage. \n \nPierre Sauvage is a French and American documentary filmmaker\, best known for his 1989-2023 feature documentary Weapons of the Spirit\, about the Christian oasis of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon during the Holocaust. Sauvage himself was born there at that time\, but it was only at the age of 18 that he learned that he and his family were Jewish and survivors of the Holocaust.\nUpcoming is And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry and the Refugee Crisis\, Marseille 1940-1941\, a feature documentary about the most successful private American rescue effort of the Nazi era. In Marseille\, France\, after France fell to the Nazis\, a New York intellectual named Varian Fry led a tiny group that helped to save as many as 2\,000 people\, including many luminaries of that time\nWhile celebrating some remarkable Americana\, the documentary places the story in the context of those challenging times\, addressing American policies then towards the unwanted refugees. Sauvage is the president and founder of the Chambon Foundation\, dedicated to exploring and communicating “the necessary and challenging lessons of hope intertwined with the Holocaust’s unavoidable lessons of despair.” \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\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring’s Session\nA Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 John Sears: Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust.\nApril\, May and June Guests COMING SOON\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.
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SUMMARY:In Observation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Youth\, Poetry\, & Activism: Readings & Conversations with Allegheny County’s Youth Poet Laureate & Ambassadors
DESCRIPTION:City of Asylum celebrates the 2022–2023 Allegheny County Youth Poet Laureate and Youth Poet Ambassadors with a teen-curated program in observation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 2022–2023 \n\nAllegheny County Youth Poet Laureate Rho Bloom-Wang and 2022–2023 Allegheny County Youth Poet Ambassadors Emily Tea\, Jade Davis\, Audrey Alling\, and Aja Lynn host a special evening exploring arts and activism from the perspective of teen artists. \n \nThe program features poetry readings from these teen poets followed by a panel discussion on youth and arts activism moderated by 2021–2022 Allegheny County Youth Poet Laureate Danielle Obisie-Orlu. \nCurator Notes: \n“Teens are often one of the first groups to step up and advocate for equity and social change. This celebration of youth activism and arts as a medium for activism will provide an opportunity to reflect and learn from our local Youth Poet Laureate and Youth Poet Ambassadors as we observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day.” – Kelsey Ford\, Director of Programs
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/youth-poetry-activism-readings-conversations-with-allegheny-countys-youth-poet-laureate-ambassadors/
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Liga Terezin
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Liga Terezin with Oded Breda\, Michael Schwartz \, Moderated by Avi Ben Hur\n\n\n“LIGA TEREZIN” is a documentary film ( 2012\, 52 minutes) that tells the incredible story of the soccer league which took place in Ghetto Theresienstadt\, 40 miles North West of Prague (now in the Czech Republic). \nFrom 1942 to 1944\, Jewish prisoners played hundreds of soccer matches on improvised fields set up in the court-yards of the Barracks where they lived. Thousands of spectators watched a mixture of professional and amateur players and briefly escaped the reality of their terrible plight: the hunger\, the sickness and death. All the while they lived in a shroud of fear casted by the terror of the transports that sent people to the “East” and their certain death. \nIn the summer of 1944\, the Nazis made a propaganda film which highlighted the cultural activities in the ghetto. Oded Breda identified his uncle in the soccer sequence and this discovery set him on a quest to uncover information regarding the sport that took place in the ghetto. He interviewed a number of Holocaust survivors who played and watched football in the ghetto as well as a survivor who was on the film’s camera crew. He also watched games in Prague and Amsterdam where he saw the way modern day spectators expressing their anti-Semitic feelings. In Amsterdam he interviewed the Jewish Chairman of Ajax (one of the most famous teams in Europe) who has to contend with the fall out caused by the reaction to the Ajax fans who call themselves\, “The Jews”. \nBreda has harnessed the modern day connection between the Holocaust and Soccer as a vehicle to commemorate the players of the Terezin League. The film illustrates the educational power this opportunity presents when German and Israeli youth soccer players visit Yad Vashem together. \nToday\, soccer is the most watch sport in the world and the love for the ‘Beautiful Game’ has inspired the creators of the film to dedicate it to the players and spectators of ‘LIGA TEREZIN’ \n \n\n \n\n\nOded Breda \nOded is Second Generation to the holocaust. He is married and grandfather. Army rank:Major in Infantry. 2 wars. BA History. High Tech career. Director of Beit Theresienstadt\, Holocaust Museum and Education Center. He is a Julius Hirsch Award winner. Zionist. Amateur Soccer player.\nBeit Theresienstadt director 2009-2015 \n \n\n\nMichael Schwartz \nDirector\, Script \n1987 to present CNN Jerusalem producer. \n“Liga Terezin”\, 2011. Director and Script : Holocaust\, Football and Anti-Semitism. \n \n\n\nAvi Ben-Hur: Scholar 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:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-liga-terezin/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230109T130000
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DTSTAMP:20260709T180817
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SUMMARY:Liberation and Return to Life: A Survivor Speaks
DESCRIPTION:Liberation and Return to Life: A Survivor Speaks\nGeared for Educators and Students\n\nIn this webinar\, we are honored to host survivor Marion Blumenthal Lazan\, author of Four Perfect Pebbles\, a Scholastic Book recommended for grades 6-12. It was only at liberation when Holocaust survivors could finally begin to absorb the enormity of what had befallen them as individuals\, as communities and as a nation. While the rest of Europe and the US celebrated the end of the war\, the remnants of European Jewry had to somehow pick up the pieces and rebuild. Marion Blumenthal Lazan will tell us her story.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/liberation-and-return-to-life-a-survivor-speaks/
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