» Eta Chait Wrobel: An appreciation
By Jeanette Friedman | Published Today | Obituaries | www.jstandard.com

On a cold winter night last year, 91-year-old Eta Chait Wrobel walked to the parking lot after the Yad Vashem annual dinner in New York. A 20-something tipsy Latina, spoiling for a fight, pulled her SUV out of the narrow alleyway. She stopped suddenly, looked at Eta and began mouthing off at her and her companion. Eta told her to be quiet and the driver became more aggressive, got out of the car, and threatened to punch Eta’s “lights out.” Eta’s companion told the young “lady” precisely where she could go, whipped out her cellphone, and called 911. In a nanosecond, the woman got back in her car, gunned the motor, and took off. Eta then turned to her companion and said, “Why did you scare her off? My cane and I were ready — I would have knocked her right on her tuchis.”

Eta, who lived in Fort Lee for more than a decade toward the end of her life, was the commander of a partisan group in Lukow, Poland, wife to Henry, mother of four (Hal, Shain, Anna, and Liza), and grandmother of 11. She died on Memorial Day, soon after her twin great-grandchildren were born. Her life was filled with the love of giving and of fighting for truth, justice, and the Jewish people. “We fought to survive,” she would say. “We fought so that some of us would get out of there and make new families, to spit in the Nazi’s eyes. Our babies are our revenge.”

Eta grew up with nine siblings — and she was the sole survivor of her family. She escaped from a Nazi prison in Lublin and from two deportations. She smuggled guns she’d stolen from Germans in Lodz to her hometown, and fled to the woods, where the Jewish partisans made her their commander.

Determined to make a difference, she became the mayor of Lukow right after the war, and then fled the Communists. Settled in Brooklyn, she was a grocery lady extraordinaire in East New York, where she would canvass her neighbors for money for the American Cancer Society while still wearing her store apron.

When her husband became a successful real estate developer on Staten Island, the family moved to the Bronx, to a new grocery store and neighborhood, where Eta began to develop the Holocaust survivors’ division of Hadassah. In time, the family moved to Kew Gardens, where Eta used her home to rally survivors to support Yad Vashem, Hadassah, the Rivkah Laufer Bikur Cholim Society, and Israel Bonds. One of her favorite charities was Akim, an Israeli organization that cares for developmentally disabled children. Eta was also an active and vocal member of the National Council of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants.

In the last year of her life, she was honored by YIVO and the National Yiddish Theatre/Folksbiene for her efforts to keep the Yiddish language alive. Her legacy is clearly stated in her memoirs, written when she was 90. The book is called “My Life, My Way,” and Eta did it her way until the very end.

see also http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108821.html

http://www.northjersey.com/news/aroundnj/Polish_Holocaust_legend_dies.html

I am a photographer in New York City. I am doing a book on former miss
subways. A selection from the project appeared in the New York Times
City Section Dec 31 2007.
You can see some photos from the project on my website www.fionagardner.com

One of the former miss subways that I am looking for Elizabeth Stern
is a holocaust survivor. I am contacting your organization in the
hopes that you might be able to help me find her.

I have attached a jpeg of her Miss Subways poster. On the poster it
says that she was born in Warsaw Poland in 1939 and arrived at
Idlewild airport in new york on Nov 15, 1959.

I contacted the Office of homeland security and they had an INS-
foreign address and occupation index card for a woman named Janina E.
Stern that was born in Poland in 1939 and arrived on Nov 15 1959.
The archivist there thought that it is a very good chance that the
person I am looking for is Janina Elizabeth
Stern. Stern would have been her family name and she very likely got
married and changed her last name.

I appreciate any help you can give me in tracking down Elizabeth Stern.

I can be reached at 917-664-9036 or fionagardner {at} gmail(.)com

sincerely,

Fiona Gardner

Newton’s Rosian Zerner lives a legacy of courage
By Susie Davidson - Wednesday May 28 2008

“I stand before you as proof that miracles happen,” Rosian Zerner said last year at the annual Yom HaShoah ceremony at Faneuil Hall.

Zerner’s place at the podium was inspirational, and apropos. Her advocacy on behalf of Holocaust survivors and work in German-Jewish relations is well-known. She is the former vice president, and current governing board member of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust. The contact person for Greater Boston Child Survivors, she is the JCRC representative from, and executive committee member of the American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston. She is also on the Holocaust Survivor Advisory Board at the Jewish Family and Children’s Service, the Yom HaShoah planning committee, has represented Boston survivors at restitution issue meetings, and helped bring about a U.S. stamp honoring rescuer/diplomat Hiram Bingham.

Although her native Lithuania holds the dread distinction of being the country that lost the highest percentage of its Jews, Zerner survived World War II in the Kovno Ghetto, and in hiding. Her parents dug a hole under the ghetto’s barbed wire fence and pushed her to safety. “I was 6,” she said. “They timed and avoided the changing of the guards, the searchlights, the dogs.

Zerner, who had grown up in a privileged environment, remembers every detail of her escape. “I was hidden in homes, attics, barns and woods, an orphanage. I was baptized,” she said. “Sometimes I was ready to stop running, but my will to live was greater.” Miraculously reunited with her parents after the war, they remained in Italy for six years, en route to Palestine and before moving to the U.S. in 1951.

Immersed into Newton High School at age 16, she sang the St. Louis Blues without knowing English with the a-capella sextet the Newtonettes. She found it refreshing to be with people not touched by the Holocaust.
“It certainly did not fit into my senior prom as the date of the class president or into the values that I was absorbing within the ‘melting pot’ of the 50s,” she said.

Zerner later matriculated at Barnard College. “In Italy I had listened to Radio Free Europe and thought I would come to the land of spirituals and jazz,” she rememberd. Instead, it was all rock and roll. Her mother, who is still alive today at 100 in a Waltham nursing home, had been the Konzertmeister of the Lithuanian Opera, and Zerner had been a student at Milan’s La Scala Ballet School. She had read all the works of Shakespeare, Zane Gray, and Jack London in Italian. Despite class structures and educational strictures, she said that “the world, the time, was my very own oyster.”

Zerner was a runner-up for Miss Barnard, president of the fine arts club (her major was art history and her thesis, the female nude), and a class officer. Her future husband, John Zerner, was in her music class. In 1961, she began graduate school at Columbia, but embarked for India, arriving before even the Beatles’ George Harrison. She spent four months in Japan, Thailand and Persia.

“I bicycled in Nepal among Tibetan refugees, lived on a houseboat in Kashmir, bathed in the Ganges and went to its source.” She has since traveled to 64 countries. In Israel, Zerner visited her mother’s surviving relatives on a kibbutz and in Tel Aviv. She married Zerner in 1962; they had two sons but divorced in 1970 following his medical school graduation. “I was unprepared for either motherhood or independence, and yet, in those feminist days, I declined to take alimony,” she says.

In the freewheeling 60s, Zerner’s car had a flower instead of an antenna, she was teargassed in Washington antiwar marches, and started to sculpt again, painting, writing and publishing Beat poetry, making candles, pottery, enameling. Her father later convinced her to buy a home in Chestnut Hill. “Newton schools were the best at that time,” she said. A salon she had begun in Brookline became the Sunday Brunch Club at the Newton Highlands Women’s Club. She organized trips, tennis parties, support groups, and media, joined boards of arts organizations and chaired art-related events.

“In 1987, she joined her pro-baseball player son Jay, who is now a physician, in Australia. Although caring for her father curtailed graduate school hopes, she studied Spanish and pre-Columbian civilizations at San Miguel de Allende and Oaxaca in Mexico, climbed pyramids and became a Mayan Solar Initiate. “I spent a month in New Mexico and Arizona with the Zuni and Hopi, explored Eastern philosophies and religions that took me to Brazil, Japan and Thailand, and followed the Celtic and other paths that led from Stonehenge throughout Portugal and Spain,” she said.

In 1996, her father died at age 90, and she learned that her father’s sister, Lyda, committed suicide weeks after the Nazis murdered her composer husband Edwin. In 2000, Zerner joined a child survivors’ and a German-Jewish Dialogue group. She accepted an award bestowed posthumously by then President Adamkus of Lithuania upon one of her rescuers. “I re-connected with my childhood friend who hid with me, and retraced my steps from the house of my grandfather to the Kovno Ghetto, to the homes where I was hidden,” she recalled.

At Faneuil last year, where son Lang lit a candle, Zerner quoted presidential candidate Dennis Kuchinich: “If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We are not the victims of the world we see, we are the victims of the way we see the world.”

Susie Davidson, a frequent Advocate correspondent, is the author of “I Refused to Die,” a book documenting the lives of 20 survivors and 10 concentration camp liberators in Boston, and “Jewish Life in Postwar Germany: Our Ten-Day Seminar.”

The funeral was held at King David Chapel and Cemetery, Las Vegas,
Nevada on Thursday, 22 May 2008 at 1:00 PM . Rabbi Craig Rosenstein
officiated.

Born May 3, 1923 in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, he became an Eagle Scout
and then graduated as a ceramic engineer from the Czechoslovakian
Institute of Ceramics. During World War II, he was moved from ghetto
to concentration camps, including Lodz Ghetto, Litzmanstadt Ghetto,
Czestochown, Munition Factory Hasag # 2 in Tschenstochova, Poland,
Buchenwald, S.A. Dora Mittlebau—V/1 and V/2 assembly plant, and
Bergen-Belsen. After the war, he worked in the underground for an
organization that facilitated the acquisition of passports for Jews to
escape occupied territories and find passage to Palestine. He became
the model and subject of a series of art pieces by his friend David
Friedman, titled the Muselman (skeleton) series.
He arrived in the United States with his wife and two year old
daughter—and 60 cents in his pocket. He worked as a pin setter in a
bowling alley while he learned English (he spoke five languages). His
career included: Director of Design Research and General Manager at
Stetson China Company, General Manager of Blue Mountain Pottery,
Managing Director of Bevex Ceramic Tile Company, President of Canadiana
Pottery Ltd., the National Sales Manager of Studiceram Inc. and the
technical director of Holland Brick and Tile Company. He served as a
consultant to the Jamaican government. He received letters of
commendation from every president of the United States since 1949.
Michael Pratt, in his book, Mid Century Modern Dinnerware, called him
the “father of modern dinnerware design.” He also authored a book
entitled “Where Was God?” and was visited by Steven Spielberg
personally during a four hour interview by the Shoah Foundation. He
was a member of many organizations, including: Boys Town U.S.A.,
American Ceramic Society (President), Collingwood Chamber of Commerce
(President), Toastmasters, Huronia Tourist Association (President),
Rotary International (President) and the Canadian Ceramic Society
(Chairman). He held several patents, including a time analyzer for
ceramics.
Condolences may be directed to: Ellia Dube, 4622 Grand Drive, Las
Vegas, NV or Jana Hletko, 175 Sanderling Ave., Georgetown, SC 29440
or Otto Dube, 27923 Copper Creek Lane, Farmington Hills, MI 48331 or
Michael Dube, 2889 24th Street #8, San Francisco, CA 94110.

Family members include:

Beloved husband of Ellia Dube. Dear father of Jana (Paul) Hletko, Otto
(Shelley) Dube, Michael (fiancée Dawn Arredondo) Dube, Nicole Mathis
and the late Clarence Dunbar Floyd. Dearest father-in-law of the late
Patty Lynn Kaufman Dube. Cherished grandfather of Paul (Liz), Valerie
(Katie), and Sarah (Marc), Annie, Danniell, Yoni, Ami, Danielle and
Dominic. Proud great-grandfather of Joshua, Savannah, Jonathan, Sofia,
Paul Quinn, Sydney, Andrew, and Ellie. He was the only survivior out
of 37 members of his family who were murdered during World War II,
including his parents Ernst and Melanie (Guttwillig) Dub and siblings
Edith, Otto, Herbert and Katherine.
It is suggested that those who wish to further honor the memory of
Alfred Dube may do so by making a contribution to:

Holocaust Survivors Group of Southern Nevada
P.O. 371434
Las Vegas, NV 89137
or

Paradise Church
Benevolence Fund
2525 Emerson Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89121
or

Patricia Dube Family Fund
C/O Hillel Day School
32200 Middlebelt Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48334

I am currently writing a biography of a French Capuchin priest named Pere Marie Benoit, also known as Padre Maria Benedetto in Italy, who saved thousands of Jews in France and Italy during the Holocaust. I have much material about him from archives, but I would like very much to interview people whom he helped. I have done a few interviews, but I would like to do more. I wondered if your organization could help me locate people willing to be interviewed.
I speak French and Italian as well as English, and could travel quite a distance to do interviews. I live in New York City.

Susan Zucotti
contact:
Szuccotti {at} cs(.)com

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May 25, 2008 21:04 | Updated May 26, 2008 17:22

By JONNY PAUL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT IN LONDON

The massacre of Jewish people during the Holocaust was “scientifically impossible,” according to an article published by an Iranian satellite channel on its Web site.

Disabled victims of the vicious policies of Nazi Germany are shown in this Yad Vashem archive photo.

The article was written by Nicholas Kollerstrom, an academic specializing in astrology and crop circles, who had his fellowship terminated by University College London last month after he said there were never any gas chambers at Auschwitz.

“The views expressed by Dr. Kollerstrom are diametrically opposed to the aims, objectives and ethos of UCL, such that we wish to have absolutely no association with them or with their originator,” the University College said in a statement. “We therefore have no choice but to terminate Dr. Kollerstrom’s honorary research fellowship with immediate effect.”

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Gathering of Remembrance – Yom Hashoah 5768
Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York
May 4, 2008

Sam E. Bloch
President, American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants

[Survivor keynote address presented at the New York City-wide Holocaust commemoration co-sponsored by the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants, WAGRO, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage.]

I speak here as one who miraculously emerged from the kingdom of death, as did so many of you. Our awareness and knowledge derives from a direct bitter personal experience and memories that will remain with us until the end of our days. It is our mission to transmit these memories and their implications to others, to those who were not there, in order to imbue within them the spirit of remembrance.

It is our sacred duty to remind all those who don’t know, who don’t want to know, and who don’t want to be disturbed by such memories. To all those detractors who try to deny or diminish our tragedy, we say we are here to tell the tragic truth in full.

We are the living witnesses of the Shoah. Behind us there are 20 centuries of Jewish history, a history of exile, oppression, discrimination, persecution, genocide, and a struggle for survival and renewal. Behind us are the victims of inquisitions, pogroms, death camps, and crematoria.

We choose to remember and make others remember all those who perished, lonely, and abandoned by a cruel world that stood by in silence and indifference. When the German Nazi murderers and their accomplices destroyed our homes and our communities, and annihilated, with so much cruelty and barbarism, six million of our martyrs – innocent men, women, children – they obliterated their hopes and dreams, and the infinite creativity, beauty, and knowledge that they could have contributed to the betterment of our world.

We remember the victims in their agony and helplessness. We remember all those who perished, fleeing from death, and were denied safe havens. We remember all the brave heroes who kindled the flame of resistance in all its forms in the ghettos, death camps, forests, and hiding places. Each act of resistance, each uprising, even without victory, was a noble exaltation of the human spirit. We also remember with profound gratitude all of the brave American and allied soldiers who fought to defeat the Nazi enemy and who liberated us.

The burning question persists: How is it that the free world could not see the enormity of evil and mass murder? How could so many people become accomplices to inexplicable cruelty? How could they pretend not to see, not to hear, not want to know, not stop the genocide, while millions of our people were murdered?

Meeting here today our thoughts go back to the cities of slaughter, to the fires of Auschwitz and Treblinka, to the crumbling walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, to the mass graves of Belsen and Babi Yar, and to all the places of death and destruction. Our thoughts go back to more than 4000 destroyed Jewish communities. For us, our martyrs will always be with us.

There is a danger that their and our suffering and struggle will, with the passage of time, be forgotten. But as long as we live, and as long as there will be in this world free people who care, we the survivors, our children, and grandchildren will not stop telling and retelling our tales of martyrdom and resistance.

Our infinite loss and grief is also a powerful source of commitment – to our values, hopes, and faith in the future. From the depth of destruction we brought forth a new spirit to rebuild our lives, to reestablish families, to raise a wonderful generation of children and grandchildren – the living bridge between our past and our future. We have instilled in them a pride in our heritage, love for humanity, commitment to freedom and justice, and a continued dedication to all our endeavors of remembrance.

Together, we must transform our individual memories into collective action. The conclusion we may draw from the Holocaust, its aftermath, and today’s defamers of our tragedy is the need for vigilance and effective action. In recalling the past we must reflect on certain present day realities. Is anti-Semitism less prevalent than in the past? It is the hatred of the Jew that culminated in the Holocaust. It started with speeches, the burning of books, the burning of synagogues, and ended with the burning of people.

We know that our martyrs perished with the dream of Jerusalem and Zion. While carrying in our inner being the martyrdom and suffering of the past, today the Jewish people, including the survivors of the Holocaust, stand tall with Israel as the center of the Jewish present and future. With pride we treasure the miracle of the Jewish people reborn in the State of Israel, which became a reality in our generation. We remember all those who gave their lives in Israel’s wars for freedom and security – so many Holocaust survivors among them. They are all links in our unbroken chain of Jewish survival and we rejoice in the new glorious chapter in Jewish history, which is the third Jewish commonwealth, the modern State of Israel, whose 60th anniversary we now celebrate.

Let me conclude with the following closing lines of the poem, entitled “The Oath” by the Israeli poet Avraham Shlunsky:

In the presence of eyes
Which witnessed the slaughter
Which saw the oppression
The heart could not bear,
We have taken an oath: To remember it all,
To remember, not once to forget!
Forget not one thing to the last generation!

Irena Sendler was a most unique woman; a true role model for humanity. She had saved about 2500 children from the Warsaw ghetto, among them some of our own brothers and sisters such as Bieta Ficowska, living in Poland, and Renata Zajdman, in Montreal. It is important to note here, that as Irena was getting older and less self-reliant, it was now Bieta and our friends, members of the Association of Children of the Holocaust in Poland, who now came forward and took care of Irena.

Irena’s love and caring for all whom she met, for all whom she rescued and all whom she wanted to help brightened the world. All who knew her will always remember her wonderful smile. Only the week before her death at age 98 she had met once again with Norm Conard, the inspiring teacher, and some of the students from Kansas who had brought the story of her rescue efforts in the Warsaw ghetto to the attention of the world in their presentations of “Life in a Jar”.
Our World Federation has been involved in and supportive of the LIFE IN A JAR project for some years. Renata Zajdman, Bieta Ficowska, Rene Lichtman and I all traveled to Kansas for the first big presentation about Irena’s rescue efforts. I had then successfully nominated Irena Sendler for the Jan Karski award. It was Irena’s desire to then establish an award for teachers who best teach about the Holocaust and who inspire students to do good works.
For more information on the life of Irena Sendler please look at www.irenasendler.org

In great sadness but enriched by having known her,
Stefanie

BY EVA FOGELMAN, VP, AMERICAN GATHERING OF JEWISH HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS
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Dr. Eva Fogelman is a psychologist in New York City. She is the pioneer who started groups for children of Holocaust survivors along with Bella Savran, in 1976. She is the writer and co-producer of the award-winning documentary Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust (PBS, 1984). Dr. Fogelman is co-director of Psychotherapy with Generations of the Holocaust and Related Traumas and Child Development Research, Training Institute for Mental Health.
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“Why are Holocaust survivors obsessed with future generations remembering? Why do they command us all to Zachor, to remember? What is it they want us to remember?” That is the challenge every post-Holocaust generation will continue to face, just as all Jews at the Passover Seder are asked to think of themselves as slaves freed from Ancient Egypt. The significance of re-thinking the past and what it means in the present is best explained by Leon Wieseltier, social critic, literary editor of the New Republic and a 2G—second generation descendant of a survivor—who writes, “A tradition that is transmitted more or less as it is received will not live long.”

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THIS HAS BEEN SLIGHTLY EDITED TO AVOID REPETITION WITH ARTICLES ALREADY POSTED ON TOGETHER.
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> 1. EAVESDROPPING ON DREAMS
> Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 8pm
> JCC in Manhattan — 334 Amsterdam Avenue (at 76th street)
> $10 suggested donation
>
> Staged reading of a new play by Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg.
>
> Set in modern day Manhattan and integrating original texts from “The
> Chronicles of the Lodz Ghetto,” this new play traces three generations of
> women through an emotional journey of discovery into Rosa Eberkohn’s past as
> a Holocaust survivor. As her daughter and granddaughter begin to recognize
> the impact of Rosa’s experience on their own lives, family secrets are
> revealed through a series of recurrent dreams.
>
> Directed by Lee Gundersheimer. Featuring Vivian Meisner and Naomi Less.
>
> Admission: RSVP: 212-744-6400
>
> ********************
>
> 2. THE EXPERIENCES OF THE ELDERLY IN THE VILNA GHETTO
> Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 7pm
> Center for Jewish History — 15. W. 16th St (just west of Fifth Ave)
>
> The Experiences of the Elderly in the Vilna Ghetto; Elizabeth Strauss,
> University of Notre Dame
>
> Admission: Free, RSVP: 212-294-6127
>
> ********************
>
> 3. KRISTALLNACHT: THE BEGINNING OF THE TRAGEDY; with Elie Wiesel
> Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 8pm
> 92nd Street Y - Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
>
> Kristallnacht, the first state-organized pogrom, was a harbinger of what
> followed. How did the world react to this event? What could have been done
> that wasn’t? How is Kristallnacht seen in world history and why will it
> stand out in time memoriam?
>
> Admission: $35; Info: 212-415-5500
>
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> 4. BLESSED IS THE MATCH: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HANNAH SENESH
> Monday, June 2, 2008, 7pm
> Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
> 36 Battery Place, New York, NY
>
> Film Screening: (2008, USA, 85 minutes, HD)
>
> Post-screening discussion with Academy-Award nominee Joan Allen, narrator of
> the film, and director Roberta Grossman
>
> This U.S. premiere of a new documentary about Hannah Senesh, the World War
> II-era poet, diarist, and resistance fighter, focuses on Senesh’s courage
> and the bravery of her remarkable mother who desperately tried to save her
> daughter. Part of the only military rescue mission to save Jews during the
> Holocaust, Senesh’s story has inspired readers for generations–this is the
> first documentary feature about her life.
>
> Free with suggested donation; info: 646-437-4202; www.mjhnyc.org
>
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>
> 5. DOMINICAN HAVEN: THE JEWISH REFUGEE SETTLEMENT IN SOSUA, 1940-1945
> Thursday, June 12, 2008, 6pm - Exhibition Tour; 7pm - Discussion
> Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
> 36 Battery Place, New York, NY
>
> With author Marion A. Kaplan
>
> In 1938, the government of the Dominican Republic offered to resettle up to
> 100,000 Jews. Sosúa, an abandoned plantation on the north coast of the
> island, would become a refuge to hundreds of Jews. Marion Kaplan offers a
> kaleidoscope of views and voices that came together in the creation, life,
> and transformation of Sosúa.
>
> Admission includes a tour of the exhibit; $5 tickets, free for members
>
> Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Sosúa: A Refuge for
> Jews in the Dominican Republic.
>
> This program is part of the Museum’s monthly book club, Looking Back Facing
> Forward, co-sponsored by the Forward and moderated by its associate editor,
> Gabriel Sanders.
>
> Info: 646-437-4202; www.mjhnyc.org
>
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> 6. 3GNY - FAMILY BRUNCH
> Sunday, June 22, 2008, Time: TBD
> JCC in Manhattan — 334 Amsterdam Avenue (at 76th street)
>
> Join us in celebrating our second annual intergenerational brunch. Enjoy
> great food, connect with others and learn a little more about our
> organization — its past events and where it’s going.
>
> We’ll send out more details soon. www.3gnewyork.org
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> 7. CRISIS IN DARFUR
> Mia Farrow, Georgette Gagnon, Daoud Hari and Jill Savitt / Leonard Lopate,
> moderator
> Monday, June 30, 2008, 8:15pm
> 92nd Street Y - Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
>
> The conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, which has pitted rebel
> factions against government-backed militias, has killed more than 200,000
> people and displaced 2.5 million since it began in 2003. Hear firsthand
> accounts of the crisis from those who have lived and worked in Dafur,
> including Georgette Gagnon, the acting director of the Africa Division,
> Human Rights Watch, Daoud Hari, the author of The Translator: A Tribesman’s
> Memoir of Darfur, Jill Savitt, Executive Director of Dream for Darfur and
> Mia Farrow, actress and activist.
>
> WNYC’s Leonard Lopate moderates.
>
> Admission: $26; Info: 212-415-5500
>
>
>
> DARFUR INITIATIVES
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> 1. MAY 22 RALLY AT THE UN:
>
> We are having a rally in front of the US Mission to the UN:
> Thursday May 22 from 12-2 (at 45 St between 3rd and Lexington).
>
> Please come and bring signs with messages such as “UN troops now” and “Save
> the people of Darfur” “End the violence in Khartoum”, “Justice and peace for
> Darfur”.
>
> If you cannot come please send an email to the US Mission to the UN at
> USUNPublicAffairs {at} state(.)gov>” title=”mailto:%55%53%55%4E%50%75%62%6C%69%63%41%66%66%61%69%72%73%40%73%74%61%74%65%2E%67%6F%76USUNPublicAffairs {at} state(.)gov>“>USUNPublicAffairs {at} state(.)govUSUNPublicAffairs {at} state(.)gov>.
>
> Here is the link to the rally:
> SAVE DARFUR | Event | Rally at US Mission to the
> UN
>
> Some background:
>
> Now is a time of renewed violence in Darfur. In the wake of the failed coup
> in Khartoum, Darfuris in the capital have been targeted on the basis of
> ethnicity, killing particularly members of the African tribes of Darfur.
> There have been executions and disappearances, particularly of young men.
> Our Darfuri friends have been sending us lists of people, particularly
> educated, professional Darfuris (civilians not involved in the rebel
> attack), who have been executed or disappeared. There have been reports of
> people being executed because of the color of their skin. There have also
> been renewed attacks on Darfuri villages in the past few weeks.
>
> It is extremely important that we raise our voices NOW. The US will hold the
> presidency of the Security Council during June. We need the UN to end the
> impunity of the government of Sudan and the ongoing atrocities by deploying
> UN troops and imposing multilateral sanctions on high officials of the
> Sudanese regime!
>
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> 2. From American Jewish World Service:
>
> Please join me and other members of the AJWS community by signing this
> letter calling on President Bush not to attend the opening ceremony of the
> Olympic Games in Beijing.
>
> Click here:
> http://action.ajws.org/campaign/olympicspetition/8i5k5sdr17×55jni?utm_source=advocacy&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=darfurletter1
>
> The government of China is Sudan’s largest foreign investor and the world’s
> biggest player in Sudan’s multi-billion dollar oil industry. It has provided
> Sudan with more than $10 billion in commercial and capital investments over
> the last 10 years and has served as Sudan’s most vocal advocate in the
> United Nations.
>
> The United States cannot continue to stand idly by while one of its largest
> trading partners supports a genocide that is intensifying each day. The fact
> that China is hosting the Olympic Games provides an unprecedented
> opportunity for Present Bush to demand changes in China’s relationship with
> Sudan.
>
> Please join me in taking action for the people of Darfur by signing the open
> letter to President Bush, asking him not to attend the opening ceremony of
> the Olympics this summer. By working together, we can put real pressure on
> President Bush to help bring an end to the violence in Darfur.
>
> Click here:
> http://action.ajws.org/campaign/olympicspetition/8i5k5sdr17×55jni?utm_source=advocacy&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=darfurletter1
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ruth Messinger
> President, AJWS
>
> ********************
>
> 3. [For more info on the Tuesday Darfur Vigil Group, email
> eshkolit {at} gmail(.)com or call 212-628-4005]
>
> ********************
>
> 4. News from the SAVE DARFUR COALITION:
>
> *Violence in Darfur escalates. The world’s inaction persists.*
>
> On June 1, the U.S. assumes the presidency of the U.N. Security Council.
>
> We can help keep our promise to Darfur:
>
> * Help us reach our goal of sending 75,000 messages to President Bush before
> June
> 1.*
>
> * The Sudanese government bombed a Darfuri school on Sunday, killing at
> least
> 13 people, including seven children. The international community didn’t
> respond for more than 48 hours.
>
> * The attack?and the miserable response?is yet another example of the
> world’s
> failure to protect the people of Darfur. The U.N. approved a peacekeeping
> force for Darfur ten months ago. *Less than a third of that force has
> reached Darfur.
>
> * But we have an opportunity to make sure the world keeps its promise to the
> people of Darfur* when the U.S. assumes the presidency of the U.N. Security
> Council on June 1.
>
> * Help us meet our goal to send 75,000 messages to President Bush before
> June
> 1 urging him to help bring peace and security to the people of
> Darfur.<http://action.savedarfur.org/campaign/protection/i8kg7e82v775mndj?>
>
> * Last summer, the U.N. Security Council committed to send a robust
> peacekeeping force to Darfur. There was hope that with the arrival of
> additional peacekeeping troops, the worst of this humanitarian nightmare
> would soon be over.
>
> * Ten long months later, only 10 percent of the additional 20,000 troops
> have
> deployed. Those that are on the ground lack the basic logistical and
> material support they need to do their job. There is simply no reason why
> the most powerful nation in the world, together with its allies, can’t find
> 22 helicopters to help save lives in Darfur.
>
> * In last year’s State of the Union address, President Bush said: “The
> United
> States … will continue to awaken the conscience of the world to save the
> people of Darfur.”
>
> * If those words mean anything at all, the President will use the leadership
> of the U.N. Security Council to get the peacekeepers what they need to
> protect the people of Darfur.
>
> * Click here to send a message to the White House. Tell the President that
> it’s time for America to show moral leadership - with deeds, not
> words.
>
> Talk is cheap. The time for outrage alone is over. The time for action is
> long past overdue. Every day of foot-dragging is another day of unspeakable
> atrocities visited on the people of Darfur.
>
> The people of Darfur need protection NOW.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Colleen Connors
> Save Darfur Coalition
>
> ********************
>
> 5. Op-ed by Mia Farrow and Ambassador Nancy Soderberg in the Wall Street
> Journal:
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121081052074793543.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
>
> ********************
>
> 6. THE CYCLONE IN BURMA:
>
> May 21, 2008 - The effects of Cyclone Nargis are continuing to intensify:
> the official death toll is now almost 80,000 while aid agencies estimate
> that the number of dead could be 128,000 or higher. At least one million
> people are currently homeless and some 2.5 million people are at risk of
> starvation and
> disease.
>
> AJWS has been in constant contact with grantee organizations in communities
> neighboring the affected regions since the disaster struck and is working
> with them to make sure that aid reaches those who need it most. AJWS
> emergency funding is supporting the Emergency Assistance Team, a coordinated
> relief effort that includes the Mae Tao Clinic and several AJWS grantees.
>
> Inside Burma*, the Emergency Assistance Team is visiting affected
> communities, assessing needs, distributing food and clean water, providing
> shelter and health services, and disposing of dead bodies. The team is also
> documenting the scenes and abuses they are witnessing.
>
> Grassroots relief efforts like those supported by AJWS are vital to the
> people of Burma at this time. While some Southeast Asian aid workers are now
> being granted visas to enter the country, aid efforts are still being
> hampered by the Burmese junta and aid workers are still not being allowed
> into the most badly affected areas. It is estimated that aid has only
> reached 30% of those who need it, and there are reports that international
> aid is being sold on the open market instead of being distributed.
>
> An AJWS contact in the region, who cannot be named for security reasons, had
> this to say: “The provision of lifesaving aid has been stalled due to the
> [junta's] underreporting and inept emergency management… The people of
> Burma have been cheated out of accessing the help they desperately need
> during this devastating time.”
>
> As the situation on the ground in Burma continues to develop, AJWS will
> continue to provide updates and reports from our grantees in the region.
>
> Please visit http://action.ajws.org/ct/OdeewD71XS4k/ for an
> overview on the political situation in Burma and the ongoing work of AJWS in
> the region.
>
> *The name Myanmar was given to the country by the SPDC in 1989. However,
> pro-democracy activists still use the old name, Burma, to vocalize their
> objection to military rule. In solidarity with these activists, and in
> opposition to the illegitimate rule of the SPDC, AJWS refers to the country
> as Burma.
>
>
>
> COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
> ****************************************************************
>
> 1. LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO STAY:
>
> From a friend who works at the Auschwitz Museum who is completing her PhD &
> will be studying in NYC this summer:
>
> Hello everyone:
>
> I apologize for the informality of this email but I wanted to reach as many
> as my friends as possible.
>
> As many of you know, I am juggling quite a bit these days. I continue to
> guide at Auschwitz. I am now teaching (Holocaust) at the Jagiellonian
> University, Krakow and, doing research for my doctorate. I just spent
> several weeks in New York City doing research at the Joint Distribution
> Committee archives. It was a very productive month and while I was in the
> US, I had the honor of being a scholar-in-residence in Poughkeepsie, NY
>
> I plan to be in New York City from Mid-June to the end of August completing
> my research at the JDC and YIVO archives. This will be an important time for
> me as I hope to partially finish my doctoral research.
>
> I am in need of living accomodations for the summer and am asking you to ask
> your friends or colleagues if they know of anything available for this 10
> week period. Ideally, I would be able to rent or sub-let a studio or one
> bedroom in the city. Another option would be a basement apartment. I have a
> small budget that I could apply to these accomodations. Your help in
> spreading the word would be very much appreciated.
>
> I hope this finds you well and thank you for your help.
>
> Kindly,
>
> Anna
> ansommer {at} gmail(.)com
>
> ********************
>
> 2. The GALLERY EDUCATOR PROGRAM at the MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE:
>
> Dear Gallery Educators,
>
> As you may know, we are recruiting for a new class of Gallery Educators to
> being in September. If you know of anyone who might be interested in
> applying, please invite them to complete the Volunteer application,
> available for download here:
> www.mjhnyc.org/museum_getinvolved_b.htm.
> Information on where to mail the completed form is on page 2 of the form.
>
> If they do not have access to the internet, please invite them to contact
> Monica Brandwein at 646-437-4284 and she will mail them the form.
>
> The due date for applications is May 30, 2008.
>
> Many thanks,
> Liz
>
> Elizabeth Edelstein
> Director of Education
> Museum of Jewish Heritage
> A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
>
> ********************
>
> 3. Update from the Yom HaShoah Names Project:
> http://www1.yadvashem.org/Boris/cynthia/Letter_april_2008.htm
>
> ********************
>
> 4. YAD VASHEM’S PHOTO ARCHIVE GOES ONLINE:
>
> Senior staff at Yad Vashem, who subscribe to this email list, ask me to make
> public the following:
>
> Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem, the Holocaust remembrance and
> education center in Jerusalem, will today (May 1) upload its entire photo
> archives to www.yadvashem.org. These include 130,000 photographs and images,
> comprising the largest collection of its kind in the world, and form part of
> the ongoing efforts by Yad Vashem and other organizations to stem the
> worldwide growth of Holocaust denial and revisionism. Six million Jews were
> murdered in
> the Holocaust.
>
> These images include photographs taken in ghettos, during deportations, in
> slave labor and death camps and at liberation and more. They are designed to
> be used by historians, educators, writers, filmmakers and the public at
> large. The photographs come from a variety of sources, including official
> archives, private collections, museums and various historic collections.
>
>
> YAD VASHEM LAUNCHES YOUTUBE CHANNELS
>
> Yad Vashem has also launched two YouTube channels to coincide with Holocaust
> Remembrance Day, and in a further effort to combat Holocaust denial and
> misinformation, which is rife on the Internet. The channels, in English and
> Arabic, went live today.
>
> The English channel contains testimonies from Holocaust survivors, including
> archival footage, historians? lectures on key issues related to the
> Holocaust, footage from visits to Yad Vashem, including those of President
> George W. Bush in January 2008, and Pope John Paul II in March 2000, as well
> as human interest stories, such as family reunions.
>
> The Arabic channel has testimonies and archival footage about the Holocaust,
> with Arabic subtitles. There is an introduction on the importance of knowing
> about the Holocaust by Prince Hassan of Jordan, the brother of the former
> King Hussein.
>
> The channels are dynamic, and new videos will be added frequently. Channels
> in additional languages will be launched soon. The Yad Vashem Channels can
> be seen in English here and in Arabic here. Google and YouTube both
> volunteered to help Yad Vashem set up the new channels.
>
> ********************
>
> 5. From a friend, a 3G at the Claims Conference:
>
> Property Restitution in Eastern Europe
>
> Dear Senator Nelson: I support your efforts to secure property restitution
> in Eastern Europe for Holocaust Survivors. Below you will find an excerpt
> from the Opening Statement of Senator Bill Nelson at a hearing held last
> week. This plan to introduce a Senate bi-partisan resolution focusing on
> East European property restitution is critically important. The Claims
> Conference has been working intensively with members of Congress on this
> issue.
>
> Your involvement will help move this initiative forward. To show support,
> please e-mail your encouragement to Senator Nelson at
> holocaust.resolution {at} gmail(.)com
>
> Excerpt from the Opening Statement of Senator Bill Nelsonn; Senate Foreign
> Relations Committee Subcommittee on International Operations and
> Organizations,
> Democracy and Human Rights
> Tuesday, May 6, 2008 2:30 p.m:
>
> Unfortunately, some countries have not taken nearly enough action on
> restitution for insurance or other property taken from Jews and other
> victims of Nazi persecution. Poland, for example, is the sole member of the
> Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe not to have enacted
> restitution legislation. This is unacceptable.
>
> That’s why I am pleased to announce today that, working with my colleagues
> Senators Gordon Smith, Ben Cardin, and Norm Coleman, we’ve drafted and plan
> to introduce a bi-partisan resolution urging all countries, especially those
> in the former Eastern Europe, to enact fair and comprehensive private and
> communal property restitution legislation and to do so quickly as possible.
>
> Our resolution will call for the Secretary of State to engage in dialogue to
> achieve the aims of the resolution as well as for the convening of an
> international intergovernmental conference to focus on the remaining steps
> necessary to secure restitution and compensation of Holocaust era assets.
>
> We hope the resolution will spur our own and other European governments into
> action and call attention to this important unfinished business.
>
> The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)
> represents world Jewry in negotiating for compensation and restitution for
> victims of Nazi persecution and their heirs. The Claims Conference
> administers compensation funds, recovers unclaimed Jewish property, and
> allocates funds to institutions that provide social welfare services to
> Holocaust survivors and preserve the memory and lessons of the Shoah.
>
> For more information: www.claimscon.org
>
> ********************
>
> 6. From Frida Grapa Cielak, Mexico City:
>
> Dear Friends:
>
> I am writing to you from Mexico City where a WYSZKOW Poland PROJECT is being
> carried out under the direction of the well known Mexican Historian,
> essayist and publisher DR. ENRIQUE KRAUZE.
>
> I am Frida Grapa Cielak, his assistant researcher centered at this moment,
> in
> the investigation about the Jewish life and history in, and about Wyszkow,
> pre,-during-and past- World War II and the Holocaust. This exhaustive
> research includes looking for facts, documents, letters, family & shtetl
> stories, testimonies and any information sources available for this theme.
>
> In our line of investigation we are also trying to locate WYSZKOW Holocaust
> survivors or their family members. We have prepared a suitable questionnaire
> for them. If answered, it will provide us with great, essential and basics
> testimonies.
>
> CAN YOU HELP US?
>
> We have already contacted: Yad Vashem, Beth Hatfutzot, Washington Holocaust
> Museum and others, but we believe that you can help us also, as well. We
> will be looking for your kind reply to our request and, we thank you in
> advance for your help.
>
> e-mail: Frida at areleyiddish {at} prodigy.net(.)mx; Sent on behalf of Enrique
> Krauze:
> ekrauze {at} prodigy.net(.)mx;
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Krauze
>
> FRIDA (Grapa de) CIELAK, Author of ARELE, the Yiddish Workbook set for
> Beginners; Author of 40 años de LA NAYE, the first 40 years of the NAYE
> Yiddishe; Shul-I.L.PERETZ School in Mexico City and Founder of its first
> Audiovisual Center and Children Library.
>
> Also, Founder of the International Yiddisher Briv-Fraynd Club (Pen-Pals in
> Yiddish now at: www.derbay.org/penpal.html;
> Personal e-mail: fridag {at} cielak(.)com or aRELE96 {at} aol(.)com;Website:
> http://www.arele.yiddish.com.mx
>
> ********************
>
> 7. L.I. NORTH SHORE 2G/3G GROUP
>
> From the Sid Jacobson Y - East Hills
> (Call for time and date)
>
> Survivor Relatives
> Facilitator: Louise Bobrow
>
> There are many more second and third generation survivors than there are
> actual Holocaust survivors. In its infancy, the only program of its kind,
> “Survivor Relatives” recognizes the need for second and third generation
> survivors to meet and learn more about their families and themselves. This
> new, and unique program is co-sponsored by the Holocaust Memorial and
> Tolerance Center of Nassau County. This is a community service program and
> is FREE to the entire Long Island Community.
>
******************
>
From a 3rd gen in NYC:
>
> Looking for Wallenberg survivors and their descendents. If you know someone
> who was saved by Raoul Wallenberg or are a family member of a Wallenberg
> survivor, please contact lebo1217 {at} aol(.)com
>
> ********************
>
> 10. From iVolunteer:
>
> Dear Friend,
>
> iVolunteer is a dynamic visitation program that sends volunteers to the
> homes of
> Holocaust survivors, providing them with companionship and much-needed
> assistance.
>
> iVolunteer began in September of 2007 and already have a team of 40
> volunteers visiting survivors in their homes throughout Manhattan. We
> provide programming
> for the Holocaust survivors and volunteers like Friday night dinners,
> holiday parties and other special events. We hosted an amazing Purim party
> at the 92nd St. Y on Purim evening. We had over 60 people come to celebrate
> together in the 92nd St. Y. We had great raffle prizes to high end stores,
> standup comedy
> entertainment as well as a musical performance by members of the Julliard
> school of music.
>
> We’re proud to let you know that we were featured in the Jewish Press
> (attached article) and Crown Heights.info:
> http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=11173
>
> Please visit our web site to learn more about us: www.ivolunteerny.com
>
> Sincerely,
> Tzvi and Sheva Tauby
>
> ********************
>
> 11. From The Museum of Jewish Heritage:
>
> The Museum now has its own page on the social networking site Facebook.com.
> This is a great way to share Museum information and public program
> invitations with your friends!
>
> If you have a Facebook account, become a “fan” of the Museum of Jewish
> Heritage, or join one of the Museum’s group pages.
>
> ********************
>
> 12. About “Sala’s Gift”:
>
> The power of the written word to sustain life is a theme of Letters to Sala:
> A Young Woman’s Life in Nazi Labor Camps, a compelling collection of rare
> Holocaust-era letters and photographs that are part of the collections of
> The New York Public Library. The items - from a young girl’s diary to
> handwritten postcards to photographs to official documents - were saved at
> great personal risk by Sala Garncarz from the time she entered a Nazi labor
> camp in 1940 until her liberation in 1945. The collection provides a
> remarkable first-hand view of the human drama that unfolded among Jewish
> victims forced to work as slave laborers.
>
> In the hands of Ann Kirschner, Sala’s daughter, these documents also form
> the basis of one of the most moving, inspiring, and eye-opening Holocaust
> stories in decades. SALA’S GIFT: My Mother’s Holocaust Story captures the
> horror of Sala’s astonishing odyssey through the Nazi labor camps-which are
> far less understood than the extermination camps-and deftly weaves the
> letters into a compelling narrative.
>
> For the first time, SALA’S GIFT will be translated into Polish and German
> and available in bookstores on May 13, 2008. The Polish edition, Listy z
> pude?ka. Sekret Mojej Mamy, will be published by AMF Plus. The German
> edition, Salas Geheimnis Die Geschichte Meiner Mutter, will be published by
> S. Fischer Verlag.
>
> Letters to Sala, a striking exhibition reproducing the letters, postcards,
> photographs, and documents, will also come to Poland this summer. Curated by
> Jill Vexler, Letters to Sala will travel to the Galicia Jewish Museum in
> Krakow, Poland from JUNE 28 through AUGUST 31, 2008. The exhibition will
> open at the Galicia Jewish Museum during the annual Jewish Festival in
> Krakow. For more information about Letters to Sala in Poland, contact Kate
> Craddy at the Galicia Jewish Museum: 0048 12 421 68 42,
> kate {at} galiciajewishmuseum(.)org
>
> For general information about Sala’s Gift and Ann Kirschner, contact Rachel
> Tarlow Gul: 201-503-1321, Rachel {at} otrpr(.)com
>
>
>
> EXHIBITIONS
> ****************************************************************
>
> 1. WHEN HUMANITY FAILS
> May 25 - June 30, 2008
> Queens Borough Community College, Queens, NY
>
> The exhibit employs video, audio, and graphic narratives to explore and
> understand the Holocaust, focusing on the personal experiences of
> concentration camp survivors and their U.S. Army liberators. For more:
> barry {at} afikimfoundation(.)org or 212-791-7450
>
>
>
> 2. DARING TO RESIST: JEWISH DEFIANCE IN THE HOLOCAUST
> On view through July 4, 2008
> Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
> 36 Battery Place, New York, NY
>
> During the Holocaust, Jews throughout Europe, through individual and
> collective acts of resistance, sought to undermine the Nazi goal of the
> annihilation of the Jewish people. Jews engaged in a range of resistance
> activities with the aim of preserving Jewish life and dignity despite
> unimaginable difficulties. Their efforts powerfully refute the popular
> perception that Jews were passive victims. Through testimony, archival
> footage, and authentic artifacts, the exhibition will help visitors to
> understand the dilemmas that Jews faced under impossible circumstances.
> Whether praying clandestinely, documenting the experiences of Jews in the
> ghettos, or taking up arms to fight, these responses took many forms, but
> each and every one was a courageous act of resistance.
>
> ********************
>
> Also at the Museum of Jewish Heritage:
>
> 3. SOSÚA: A Refuge for Jews in the Domincan Republic
> SOSÚA: Un Refugio de Judíos en la República Dominicana
> On view through July 25, 2008
>
> In 1938, when openings for Jewish refugees were hard to find, the Dominican
> Republic offered to resettle 100,000 Jews. Sosúa, an abandoned plantation,
> would become a refuge to hundreds of Jews, and grow into a town that still
> thrives today.
>
> This exhibition tells how the settlers were recruited, what awaited them in
> Sosúa, and how they worked with their Dominican neighbors to establish the
> settlement. Sosúa speaks poignantly to one chapter in a shared Dominican and
> Jewish story.
>
>
> ARTICLES & OTHER NEWS (Courtesy, GSI Newsletter; see below for more on GSI)
> ****************************************************************
>
> Article on the 3G phenomenon, by Eva Fogelman:
> http://69.36.40.219/user/2485/eva_fogelman
>
> Holocaust Survivors Silenced For Too Long:
> http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other_views/v-print/story/536657.html
>
> Holocaust Remembrance Is About Honoring the Living Too:
> http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/35147/format/html/displaystory.html
>
> In Dignity and in Peace:
> http://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=29&ArticleID=8759&TM=46910.65
>
> Balance Still Due on Holocaust:
> http://www2.nysun.com/article/75842
>
> From Auschwitz, A Torah As Strong As Its Spirit:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/nyregion/30torah.html?ex=1210305600&en=00c50f8273822016&ei=5070&emc=eta1
>
> My Father’s Will:
> http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1208870533746&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

> The Local - Holocaust survivors: German rail restrictions ‘undignified’:
> http://www.thelocal.de/11143/
>
> Hitler Killed My Father: http://www.newsweek.com/id/134318

> German Jews sever ties with pope:
> http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1206632370637
>
> Claims Conference denies pressuring Bielski on survivor disbursement:
> http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1208422633540&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
>
> German professors: Nazis helped establish Israel:
> http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203343697375&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
>
> Yad Vashem celebrates survivors in Israel:
> http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108281.html
>
> Exodus’ hero dies:
> http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108265.html
>
> Survivor of Holocaust hatred: ‘You have to learn to embrace the human race’
> http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080402/NEWS01/804020314/1002
>
> Holocaust survivors and their heirs hope history will not repeat:
> http://www.gazette.net/stories/042308/rocknew211704_32360.shtml
>
> Living to Teach:
>” title=”http://www.hadassah.org/pageframe.asp?section=news&page=per.html&header=per&size=50\”>” target=”_blank”>www.hadassah.org/pageframe.asp?section=news&page=per.html&header=per&size=50″> http://www.jstandard.com/articles/4100/1/Daughter-of-survivors-keeps-memory-alive
>
> ‘It’s the least I could do for my friend’:
> http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1207486207665
>
> Remembering Liviu Librescu:
>” title=”http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/2008/04/16/remembering-liviu-librescu/\”>” target=”_blank”>blogs.jta.org/telegraph/2008/04/16/remembering-liviu-librescu/”> http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107952.html
>
> Why Won’t Those SOBs Give Me My Money?:
> http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20080407syks04032008.html
>
> Israeli neo-Nazis confess:
> http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108004.html
>
> Israel, Poland upgrade ties:
> http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108003.html
>
> Unfinished Justice: A Conversation with Michael Bazyler:
> http://reformjudaismmag.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=1316
>
> Ghetto revolt remembered:
> http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108089.html
>
> Melbourne’s Croatian club honors fascist:
> http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108070.html
>
> Bronze plaques stolen from Terezin:
> http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108132.html
>
> Belarusian Jews want Holocaust day:
> http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108123.html
—————-
> Below is a link to the trailer for the movie “Defiance.” This movie,
> starring Daniel Craig, is a movie about the Bielski brothers, a trio
> of brothers who saved 1200 Jews during the Holocaust, and killed
> hundreds of Nazis:
>” title=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYBnnTSvHA8\”>” target=”_blank”>www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYBnnTSvHA8″> >” title=”http://video.vienna.at/members.Redaktion/flv-skulptur140308.flv/viewer.html\”>>” target=”_blank”>video.vienna.at/members.Redaktion/flv-skulptur140308.flv/viewer.html”>> INFO {at} 3GNEWYORK(.)ORG, A MONTH IN ADVANCE IF POSSIBLE. ***

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