Presented at the Chicago/Skokie 2010 Conference.
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Presented at the Chicago/Skokie 2010 Conference.
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You can download the file here: Peter Hayes Lecture: Teaching The Holocaust
22th Annual International Conference of Child Survivors and Families, 2G & 3G
Skokie, Chicago, Illinois, USA
November 4-7, 2010
Speech by Professor Peter Hayes, ”Teaching the Holocaust in 21st Century”.
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Speech and singing by Cantor Alberto Mizrahi, “A Living Traditon: Music of the Jews Throughout the World”
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Photos from the Conference
An attentive audience
Passing the quilt and banner from Chicago to Warsaw
Cantor Alberto Mizrahi spoke
Cantor Alberto Mizrahi spoke and sang...
Monday farewell
singing together
The Chicago Host Team are warmly thanked
Solomon Schechter Day School Choir
Plenary panel
Anita, Lillian and Eva
Ladies with Polish roots, Renata, Ola, Ina...
Ola and Anna, leaders of our Polish Child Survivors
The Roth family in a multi-generational discussion
Charles Strozier, Ph.D. spoke on the impact of 9/11
Dr. Michael Grodin spoke on the Aging Survivor
Myriam Abramowicz, filmmaker, receives award from Stefanie Seltzer
and we ate and ate
Doris Lazarus, Susan Sondheimer, Second Generation friends
Attendees: Stefanie Seltzer, Karen Brass Daisy Miller, Charley Silow, friends
Steve Adler, Tom & Agnes Lugosi, Agnes Vertes, and friend...
Detroit members attending
A thank you to Lillian Fox
Seltzer family members, Sir Max and Sophia Arpels Lezer, Rene and Cathy Lichtman
Enjoying meal times together
For information on Jewish genealogical and records research in Poland, how to access documents, find family members, etc.. please see Jewish Records Indexing – Poland.
Holocaust survivors may be unaware that a remarkable number of Jewish records of Poland have survived the upheavals of history and the ravages of war. Jewish Records Indexing – Poland (JRI-Poland) has created indices to more than 4 million Jewish birth, marriage and death records from current and former territories of Poland that are housed in Poland today.
Indices to vital records more than 100-years old are available on the JRI-Poland online database: jri-poland.org/index.htm. Finding aids to another 600,000 records, less than 100-years old, are also available but are not online in order to comply with privacy issues of Polish law. They can be searched by special arrangements with JRI-Poland and are treated sensitively on a case-bycase humanitarian basis
To read more, click here: Jewish Records Indexing–Poland
This is the story of an orthodox Jewish rescuer in the south of France who managed to save more than one hundred children during the worst time of persecution – after the German occupation of Vichy France. This rabbi from the Chabad movement was not about to give up his religious principles, his adherence to the letter of the Halakha, his missionary drive of turning his charges into religiously observant and halakha-literate Jews, or his in-your-face Jewishness. He didn’t give up his Hassidic garb, his hat, his beard (red), his side locks, and was not shy of speaking French with a strong Russian accent to those in authority. But he did, in order to finance the rescue of the children from Hell, go into debt the collateral of which was his Paris apartment and other possessions, after the war. Employing these unorthodox means, barely acceptable by related organizations, the rabbi and his family themselves survived the war, immigrating to New York where his children and grandchildren now live.
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