The story of how those who survived the Holocaust managed to return to life after liberation is not a fairy tale ending. The world survivors once lived in, along with their families, friends and communities, was irretrievably lost. Yet, somehow, they had to pick up the pieces and begin new lives. This program explores the nature of that extraordinary challenge. “Life After Liberation: Refugees of the Holocaust” will take place on Wednesday, May 4th at 7 PM at a new location: Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Avenue. Join us to hear keynote speaker Dr. Atina Grossmann, Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cooper Union in New York City. She is the author of Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany 1945–1949 (2007), which won the George L. Mosse Prize in 2007 from the American Historical Association for the best book in European intellectual and cultural history, among other awards. She is the author of numerous articles and presents at academic conferences in the US and abroad. She has received many grants and fellowships, including a German Marshall Fund Research Fellowship and a Senior Visiting Fellowship at the Remarque Institute at New York University. Her current research focuses on “Remapping Survival: Jewish Refugees and Lost Memories of Displacement, Trauma, and Rescue in Soviet Central Asia, Iran, and India.” Above: Two children push toy carriages at the Foehrenwald DP camp (circa 1945- 1948). Right: Dr. Atina Grossman. Far right: Children wait for ice cream in the Foehrenwald DP camp. C HAI C ENTER FOR H OLOCAUST A WARENESS AND I NFORMATION April 2016 / Adar II - Nissan 5776 UPDATE YOM HASHOAH HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE 2016 “Life After Liberation: Refugees of the Holocaust” YOM HASHOAH Interschool Program May 5, 2016 • 9 AM-12 Noon Temple B’rith Kodesh 2131 Elmwood Avenue This year’s Holocaust remembrance interschool program will explore what life was like for refugees of the Holocaust. It is free to 8-12th grade students and their teachers but space is limited. Today’s refugee crises bring to mind the plight of the more than 250,000 Jewish displaced persons (DPs) who lived in camps in Germany, Austria and Italy after liberation. The war displaced eight million people from their homes in virtually all the countries of Europe. Though many returned to their homes after the war, most Jewish refugees had no homes to return to. With immigration restrictions as stringent as they were, the DPs often languished for years. Camps initially set up as a short- term solution remained refugee settlements into the 1950s. Register for the interschool program using the insert included with this newsletter or go to www. JewishRochester.org/CHAI. Contact CHAI Director Bonnie Abrams, (585) 241-8648 or [email protected], for more information.
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The story of how those who survived the Holocaust managed to return to life after liberation is not a fairy tale ending. The world survivors once lived in, along with their families, friends and communities, was irretrievably lost. Yet, somehow, they had to pick up the pieces and begin new lives. This program explores the nature of that extraordinary challenge.
“Life After Liberation: Refugees of the Holocaust” will take place on Wednesday, May 4th at 7 PM at a new location: Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Avenue.
Join us to hear keynote speaker Dr. Atina Grossmann, Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cooper Union in New York City. She is the author of Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany 1945–1949 (2007), which won the George L. Mosse Prize in 2007 from the American Historical Association for the best book in European intellectual and cultural history, among other awards. She is the author of numerous articles and presents at academic conferences in the US and abroad. She has received many grants and fellowships, including a German Marshall Fund Research Fellowship and a Senior Visiting Fellowship at the Remarque Institute at New York University. Her current research focuses on “Remapping Survival: Jewish Refugees and Lost Memories of Displacement, Trauma, and Rescue in Soviet Central Asia, Iran, and India.”
Above: Two children push toy carriages at the Foehrenwald DP camp (circa 1945-1948). Right: Dr. Atina Grossman. Far right: Children wait for ice cream in the Foehrenwald DP camp.
C H A IC ENTER FOR H OLOCAUST A WARENESS AND I NFORMATION
April 2016 / Adar II - Nissan 5776
UPDATE
Y O M H A S H O A HHOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE 2016
“Life After Liberation:Refugees of the Holocaust”
YOM HASHOAHInterschool Program
May 5, 2016 • 9 AM-12 NoonTemple B’rith Kodesh2131 Elmwood Avenue
This year’s Holocaust remembrance interschool program will explore what life was like for refugees of the Holocaust. It is free to 8-12th grade students and their teachers but space is limited.
Today’s refugee crises bring to mind the plight of the more than 250,000 Jewish displaced persons (DPs) who lived in camps in Germany, Austria and Italy after liberation. The war displaced eight million people from their homes in virtually all the countries of Europe. Though many returned to their homes after the war, most Jewish refugees had no homes to return to. With immigration restrictions as stringent as they were, the DPs often languished for years. Camps initially set up as a short-term solution remained refugee settlements into the 1950s.
Register for the interschool program using the insert included with this newsletter or go to www.JewishRochester.org/CHAI.
Contact CHAI Director Bonnie Abrams, (585) 241-8648 or [email protected], for more information.
Holocaust Remembrance on College Campuses and Beyond
Tuesday, April 5, 2016University of Rochester
Skalny Lecture: The Europeanization of Holocaust Memory in Eastern Europe
7:30 - 8:30 PMGoergen Hall Sloan Auditorium
275 Hutchison RdInformation: www.rochester.edu
Marek Kucia, associate professor at the Institute of Sociology and lecturer at the Centre for European Studies at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Po-land and Skalny Visiting Professor, will give a talk on “The Europeanization of Holocaust Memory in Eastern Europe.” The Holocaust largely occurred in Eastern Europe, but its memory did not develop until the end of commu-nist rule in 1989–91. How did Western European memory of the Holocaust
contribute to this remembrance?
Sunday, May 1, 2016Eastman School of MusicUniversity of Rochester
Holocaust Remembrance Concert7:30 PM
Kilbourn Hall 26 Gibbs Street
Tickets: $10Free with university ID
Information: esm.rochester.edu
A concert of music by those who perished in or survived the camps, and music written in tribute to those who died, curated by Renée Jolles.
Faculty performers include:Bonita Boyd, fluteRenée Jolles, Mikhail Kopelman, Oleh Krysa, violins
George Talyor and Philip Ying, violasSteven Doane, celloJames VanDemark, double bassIrina Lupines, pianoKatherine Ciesinski, mezzo-soprano
A reception is being provided by Temple Beth El.
More Yom HaShoah Programming
Holocaust Remembrance continued
April 21 – 28, 2016Monroe Community College
Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project Photo-essay Exhibit of Survivor Portraits
“I Told You, Now You Tell the World”1000 E. Henrietta Road
R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center Atrium
Thursday, April 28, 201626th Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration
Opening ceremony and candle lighting: 9:30 AMSurvivor testimony: 10 AM – 2 PM
including: Leah Malek (10 AM)Henry Silberstern (11:30 AM)
Sam Rind (1 PM)R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center Atrium
Information: 585.292.2533
Thursday, May 5, 2016Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Calling of Names of Holocaust Victims11 AM – 4 PM
Scandling Center, student union300 Pulteney St.
Geneva, NY 14456
Thursday, May 5, 2016Ithaca Area United Jewish Community
Holocaust CommemorationTemple Beth-El
7 – 9 PM402 N. Tioga St.Ithaca, NY 14850
Information: www.iaujc.org / [email protected]
Leah Malek Henry Silberstern Sam Rind
Rochester area Holocaust survivor Helen Levinson will share her story of escape. Ithaca area survivors will be honored and will participate in a candle lighting ceremony.
Includes a performance by the Ithaca Children’s Choir and a reception fol-lowing the program
Resources for Educators
The Jewish Federation’s Center for Holocaust Awareness and Information (CHAI) works to ensure that the Holocaust and its lessons are not forgotten. The Center is located on site at the Jewish Federation, 441 East Avenue. CHAI can be reached by phone at (585) 461-0490.
Through our award winning “Survivors in the Classroom” program, these important witnesses address more than 17,000 students yearly, ranging from 6th graders through college students.
Other Components of CHAI include: • Library and media center including books, DVDs and survivor testimonies• Five locally published books of survivor memoirs provide valuable resources for teachers to use in their classrooms • www.perilousjourneys.org, a web version of the book, Perilous Journeys, comprising the personal stories of peril and rescue as told by ten area Holocaust survivors• Annual Teacher and Student Interschool Conferences• Traveling trunks containing survivor artifacts, books, DVDs and curriculum materials • CHAI Update. To register to receive a copy of CHAI Update via email, contact [email protected]• Community annual Yom Hashoah (Holocaust remembrance) commemorations • Speakers’ Bureau • Poster series available for loan; photography exhibit for loan • Curriculum and Resource Development • Internships
To learn more, go to www.jewishrochester.org/CHAI or contact CHAI Director Bonnie Abrams, [email protected] or 461-0490, ext. 8648.
“Stand Up, Speak Out, Lend a Hand!”
“You are the messengers to a time I shall not see…” The words of Holocaust survivor, Gerda Weismann Klein provide the backdrop for this unique educational kit that contains resources and activities for teaching about the power of individuals to make a difference. In Time: Stand Up, Speak Out and Lend a Hand was developed to inspire students to take action against society’s ills through service. These award-winning teaching kits are free of charge.
Contact Sharon Outlaw, [email protected] to receive your teaching kit.
Traveling Trunks CHAI offers a new Holocaust education resource: Perilous Journeys Traveling Trunks. The trunks are designed for use in middle school although the curriculum is adaptable for high school through use of the included bibliography material and enriched lessons. The trunks contain a complete Holocaust unit including DVDs, books, maps, posters, photographs, artifacts and a curriculum designed by educators. Lessons address all four of the New York State ELA Learning Standards. All reading and listening material is non-fiction therefore fulfills emerging National Core Standard mandates.
The Traveling Trunks have been generously underwritten by John Adelman, Paul M. Lewis & M. Wittenstein UBS – The Wittenstein / Adelman Group of New York City.
Great Resource!
CHAICENTER FOR HOLOCAUST AWARENESS AND INFORMATION
The Center for Holocaust Awareness and Information (CHAI) of the Jewish Federation of Greater
Rochester is dedicated to the memory of the six million Jews who were
murdered during the Holocaust. The Center is a testimony to the vanished European Jewish communities, the Jewish resistance fighters and the righteous among the nations who
did not stand by in silence. CHAI is committed to the advancement of
public awareness of the Holocaust and its lessons as well as to the broader
issues of prejudice, racism and human rights. You can visit CHAI online at the
Federation’s website, www.jewishrochester.org/CHAI
Helen KashtanCHAI Chair
Bonnie AbramsCHAI Director
Sharon OutlawCHAI Administrative Assistant
Leslie Crane Jewish Federation President
Lawrence W. FineFederation Executive Director
Amazing Opportunity for Students (and Teachers)!
Jeannie Smith will be in Rochester on June 9th to speak at a special thank you luncheon for local Holocaust survivors. She is available to speak at a school on the morning of June 10th (for an hour
presentation beginning at 8 or 9 AM) The first teacher to contact CHAI will get this opportunity free of charge!
Jeannie Smith is the daughter of Polish rescuer Irene Gut Opdyke, who passed away on May 18, 2003. A brave and inspiring figure, Irene received international recognition for her life-saving actions during the Holocaust when working for a high
ranking German official. Irene’s life story was recently told on Broadway in the nationally acclaimed play “Irena’s Vow,” starring Tovah Feldshuh. Irene’s book, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer, relays the detailed account of her life during the years of WWII, and is used in classrooms around the country. The Israeli Holocaust Commission named Irene one of the Righteous among the Nations, a title given to those who risked their lives by aiding and saving Jews during the Holocaust. She was presented with the Israel Medal of Honor, Israel’s highest tribute, in a ceremony at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. Jeannie Smith is Irene’s only child.
If you are interested in having Jeannie Smith speak in your classroom, please contact Bonnie Abrams, [email protected].
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