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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Reckonings with Roberta Grossman: Writer\, Director and Producer\, Karen Heilig: Producer & July Hodara\, Co-Producer Moderated by Professor Michael Bazyler
DESCRIPTION:In the aftermath of the Holocaust\, the unprecedented destruction and plight of\nsurvivors prompts the unthinkable\n\n\nSynopsis \nThey met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help\, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people? \nReckonings explores this untold true story set in the aftermath of the Holocaust. \nDirected by award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman\, Reckonings recounts the tense negotiations between Jewish and German leaders. Under the constant threat of violence\, they forged ahead\, knowing it would never be enough but hoping it could at least be an acknowledgement and a step towards healing. \n\n\n \n\n \nRoberta Grossman \nWriter\, Director and Producer \nAn award-winning filmmaker with a passion for history and social justice\, Roberta Grossman has written\, directed and produced more than 40 hours of film and television. What sets her films apart are high production values\, beautiful cinematic craftsmanship and inspiring protagonists. Grossman’s films tell stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the name of justice. According to Grossman\, “making a documentary is like pushing Sisyphus’ rock up a steep mountain. The only way to summit is to have a sense of personal responsibility to tell a story that would otherwise remain untold.” \n\n\n\nKaren Heilig \nProducer \nKaren Heilig serves as the Assistant Executive Vice President of the Claims Conference and General Counsel. Since 1999 she has participated in negotiations between the Claims Conference and the German Government\, the Austrian Government and negotiations on unpaid Holocaust era insurance policies. She broke ground as the first female representative for the Claims Conference in negotiations. Understanding 70 years of compensation agreements from a personal\, legal and historical perspective\, inside the negotiating room and interacting with those who negotiated the Luxembourg Agreements – Karen was uniquely positioned to help bring this important film to life. \n\n\n\nJuly Hodara \nCo-Producer \nA native of France\, film producer and storyteller July Hodara completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California\, Berkeley before joining Katahdin Productions in 2011. The first film she produced and directed was Hidden (2006)\, an American adaptation of French documentary Les Enfants Cachés (1998) about Jewish children who survived WWII in hiding. July’s first project at Katahdin Productions was Hava Nagila (The Movie) (2012) with director Roberta Grossman. She stayed on to associate produce Above and Beyond (2014) with producer Nancy Spielberg\, On The Map (2016) with director Dani Menkin\, and Netflix Original 2018 Sundance selection Seeing Allred (2018). She co-produced 2019 Berlinale selection Who Will Write Our History (2018). \nAfter her work on those five award-winning documentary features\, she pursued her Master’s in Cinema and Media Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts\, graduating in 2020. July founded New Moons Productions in 2019\, a media company through which she develops various projects\, with a particular interest for women’s stories. She came on as co-producer for Katahdin features Vishniac (2023) with director Laura Bialis\, and Reckonings (2022) with the Claims Conference and the German Ministry of Finance as production partners. \n\n\n\nModerator: Professor Michael Bazyler \nProfessor Bazyler is professor of law and the 1939 Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law. He is the author of seven books and more than two dozen law review articles\, book chapters and essays on subjects covering law and the Holocaust\, restitution following genocide and other mass atrocities\, public international law\, international human rights law\, and international trade law and comparative law. His book\, Holocaust\, Genocide and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World (Oxford University Press) is a winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award. \n \n\n\nThank you to our partners:
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World: Remembering the Holocaust in the United Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory. \n\nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \nOur September Event in this Series: Remembering the Holocaust in the United Kingdom\nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. Tali has presented at numerous international conferences including at the United Nations (2016 & 2020). She published articles and contributed chapters to many 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) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021). In 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa\, by the Mail & Guardian. She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015) and the Agit Gratias Award (2020\, Czech Republic). Tali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. She was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered. \nJames Bulgin \n \nJames Bulgin is Head of Content for the new Holocaust Galleries at Imperial War Museums. He started work on the project in 2016. Before joining IWM James worked as a commercial theatre producer and director\, with work in the West End and on national tour. His BA was in English and his MA — for which he was awarded a distinction – is in Holocaust Studies. He is currently completing a PhD under the Crosslands scholarship at Royal Holloway College\, University of London\, on ideas of apocalypse in Holocaust and Cold War history. His academic research focuses on issues of representation in Holocaust literature and film. \nMichael Newman \n \nMichael Newman is Chief Executive of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR)\, which represents and supports Holocaust refugees and survivors in Great Britain.\nA previous Chair of the Communications Working Group\, he is a member of the UK delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).\nAs well as being an advisor on Holocaust-era restitution issues\, guiding Holocaust survivors and refugees\, and their families\, with applications for compensation and the recovery of Holocaust era assets\, he worked with the UK government to create the position of UK Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues and now advises incumbent Lord Eric Pickles.\nOutside of work\, Michael is President of the Anglo-Jewish Association (AJA)\, which supports Jewish students to attend higher and further education and is a founding member of the Claims Conference of which Michael is a Director.\nHe is the co-editor of Contemporary Human Rights Challenges: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its Continuing Relevance\, an edited collection of new essays by leading international human rights experts.\nPreviously\, Michael was a consultant to the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) and was a researcher at the Holocaust Educational Trust\, the Britain-Israel Parliamentary Group and the Inter Parliamentary Council Against Anti-Semitism.\nHe was awarded on OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in Her Majesty The Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2021. \nStephen Smith  \n \nStephen D. Smith is Executive Chairman and co-founder of StoryFile\, the world’s first AI Conversational Video platform that brings video to life. \nStephen is an international speaker and oral historian who specializes in immersive media. \nIn addition to his role at StoryFile\, Stephen serves as Executive Director Emeritus of USC Shoah Foundation\, the archive founded by Steven Spielberg to document the Holocaust and global genocides. He is a theologian by training and in that capacity is USC Visiting Professor of Religion\, where he researches genocide related testimony. \nStephen has authored several books and has two titles forthcoming in 2022: The Trajectory of Memory and Holocaust XR. \nStephen is a member of the order of the British Empire. \nPrevious Sessions in this Series: \n\nSeptember 23\, 2021 Holocaust Museums and Memorials: ‘Generation to Generation: The Evolution of Memorialization’ With Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Tali Nates in conversation with Stephen Smith and James Young\nOctober 25th\, 2021 ‘Remembering the killing sites 80 years later’ Tali Nates alongside\, Omer Bartov\, Faina Kukliansky\, Robert Jan van Pelt.\nNovember 18th\, 2021 “Memory\, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent”.Tali Nates alonside Myra Osrin\, Mary Kluk\, Owen Griffiths\, and Freddy Mutanguha \nJanuary 20\, 2022 “Remembering the Holocaust in Poland” Tali Nates; Featuring: Edyta Gawron (Schindler’s Museum)\, Jakub Nowakowski (Galicia Jewish Museum)\, Tomasz Kuncewicz (Director Of The Auschwitz Jewish Center)\, and Dariusz Popiela (memorials in the smaller town of Western Galicia)\nFebruary 24\, 2022 “Museums in Context – Creating a new Museum and Memorial”: Michael Berenbaum (many new museums)\, Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\, Marco Gonzalez (Guatemala)\, Rabbi Andrew Baker (Belzec). \nMarch 24\, 2022 “The Landscape of Memory in Germany”: with Dr. Florian Kemmelmeier\, Memorials in Berlin (Topography of Terror\, and an overview of the landscape of memorials). Dr. Matthias Hass\, Deputy Director House of Wannsee Conference\, Dr.  Matthias Heyl\, Director of Education\, Ravensbruck & Tali Nates (Johannesburg) \nMay 26\, 2022 ‘Remembering the Holocaust in Austria’ Hannah M. Lessing\, Dr Albert Lichtblau & Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\n\nUpcoming Events:\n\nJoin us in October for our final session.\n\nThank you to our partners:
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SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters' House  Talking Memory Series presents: Treasure Hunt:  Finding the Lost Art Legacy of David Friedmann
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House Talking Memory Series presents: \nCrafting Heritage: The Art of Holocaust Remembrance –  \nA Homage to David Friedmann \nJoin us on Sunday\, July 10th\, for the fourth and final program: \nTreasure Hunt:  Finding the Lost Art Legacy of David Friedmann \nGuest Speakers: \nMiriam Friedmann Morris in conversation with Liz Elsby \nDavid Friedmann’s (1893-1980) life’s work was Nazi-looted: oil paintings\, watercolors\, drawings\, etchings and lithographs. From childhood\, Morris was drawn into her father’s epic life story\, learning about his passion for art\, his Holocaust experiences\, and strong will to survive. Friedmann’s pursuit of justice inspired her quest to search for his lost art. With each new find\, she gained insights into his life\, an extraordinary view of his productive career amidst the rich\, cultural life before Hitler. Each and every artwork tells a story\, documents an event or captures the essence of a moment lost in time. Friedmann continues to live after his death via the passionate insistence of his art to emerge and be rescued from obscurity. \nThis program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, and the Jewish Historical Institute.
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SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters' House  Talking Memory Series presents: Artist as Witness:  The Holocaust Art of David Friedmann in the Lodz Ghetto
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House Talking Memory Series presents: \nArtist as Witness:  The Holocaust Art of David Friedmann in the Lodz Ghetto \nGuest Speaker: \nMiriam Friedmann Morris \nDavid Friedmann (1893-1980) depicted human fate as a refugee in Prague\, as a prisoner in the Lodz Ghetto\, in the Auschwitz subcamp Gleiwitz I\, and as a survivor. During his three years in the Ghetto\, he absorbed the unending misery he witnessed. With death before his eyes\, through hunger and sickness\, he worked strenuously on a series of artwork documenting the infernal daily struggle of the prisoners’ desperate situation. He wrote and illustrated a diary to publish at war’s end. He felt that\, unless one had lived it\, no one would believe the brutal inhumanity against the Jews. His art and diary would be his testimony\, but they were destroyed. Torn out from his memory he produced a new art series to show to the world in the hope that such barbarism would never happen again. \n2 PM EST | 7 PM GMT | 8 PM SAST | 9 PM Israel \nThis program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, and the Jewish Historical Institute.
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SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters' House Talking Memory Series presents: Artistic Representations of the Plight of the Elderly in Terezin\, 1942-1944
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House  Talking Memory Series presents:\nCrafting Heritage: The Art of Holocaust Remembrance – A Homage to David Friedmann\nJoin us on Sunday\, June 12th \, for the second program\nArtistic Representations of the Plight of the Elderly in Terezin\, 1942-1944\nGuest Speaker: Liz Elsby\nThe Nazi ghetto of Theresienstadt (Terezin in Czech) near Prague\, is often remembered for the incredible cultural endeavors of its Jewish inmates: in appalling conditions and in the shadow of deportations to death\, the Jews there created art\, held concerts and plays\, and performed operas such as ‘ Brundibar” . \nIn reality\, almost 34\,000 people\, the majority them elderly German and Austrian Jews\, died of disease\, starvation\, and neglect withing the ghettos walls; thousands more were among the 88\,000 deported to the death camps from the ghetto. \nToday\, most of these elderly men and women remain unremembered ghosts\, whose lives\, and suffering would have been forgotten by history had not an incredible group of Theresienstadt artists felt compelled to secretly draw their plight. \nIn this talk\, we will examine the artwork these brave artists created in that hellish place and by doing so\, we will give a face to these faceless victims\, and remember their humanity. \nThis program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, Beit Terezin\, and the Jewish Historical Institute.
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