Joining hands and hearts to keep Holocaust memory alive, fighting hatred and genocide
Joining hands and hearts to keep Holocaust memory alive, fighting hatred and genocide
Two stories of young Jewish rescuers who operated in the Dutch Westerwheel underground group which included Jews and non-Jews. To read the full presentation, please click here to download the PDF.
Before WWII, Jewish religion, culture and heritage flourished in Poland. The Nazis murdered 3 million out of 3.5 million of Poland’s Jews and in the process purposely set out to destroy all traces of Jewish heritage, including cemeteries and synagogues. Today there are only an estimated 3,000 to 10,000 Jews living in Poland without the Continue Reading »
Presented by Svetlana Shklarov, MD, RSW, PhD, Calgary, Canada According to the Claims Conference, there remain over 114,000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in the Former Soviet Union (FSU)(Tighe, Saxe, & Chertok, 2008). At least one third of these survivors were children during the war. Since liberation, they have been isolated from their brothers and Continue Reading »
Presented at the Israel 2007 Conference. Click here to listen now: Click here to download Professor Yehuda Bauer’s Speech Click here to read the PDF transcript.
Presented by Shari Ferber Kaufman You have come together as survivors from all over the world, who feel more like family than friends who have been with you for years. You have found here a haven, a place where you can feel safe to share raw emotions and allow yourself to go back and feel Continue Reading »
Presented by Helen Epstein. The terms «hidden child» and «children of survivors» have, I think, served their function and become increasingly become inappropriate for the group assembled here. We are, most of us, between 40 and 70, parents and sometimes grandparents –- not children. We are a far more homgenous and empowered group than our Continue Reading »
Child Survivors and Children of Survivors of the Holocaust in Russia: Social Context and Literature Svetlana Shklarov, MD, RSW Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies, University of Calgary Paper Presented at the 18th Annual International Conference of Holocaust Child Survivors, Second Generation and Families in Detroit, MI, on August 27, 2006 Just like a river, I was Continue Reading »
Presented by Eva Fogelman As the older survivors are dying, we, the child survivor generation, the second, third and fourth generations are responsible for giving them waning years and burial with dignity. The resilience of the survivor generation is diminished with the aging process and we who are witness to that have the responsibility to Continue Reading »
Presentation by Michael Berenbaum. There is an old Hasidic story about a town whose drinking water was poisoned. Anyone who drank the water went mad. The town came to its Rebbe and asked him: “what are we to do? If we do not drink the water we die; yet, if we drink the water we Continue Reading »
Presented by Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg A Prayer for the Children We know and pray for children who put chocolate fingers on everything, sneak popsicles before supper, who love to be tickeled, who stomp in puddles and ruin their new pants, who can never find their shoes. And we remember and pray for the Continue Reading »
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