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Beth Tfiloh Dahan High School's a cappella group, Kolenu, performs "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables",
from Les Miserables, to commemorate the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust
at the 2013/5773 Yom Hashoah Commemoration program.
www.youtube.com/v/z4CPRBMrRFg?version=3&hl=en_US
Please check out the incredible, moving, comprehensive Anne Frank related website, http://www.annefrank.org/ .
Kolenu: "Hatikvah" -
Yom Hashoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day
www.youtube.com/v/IMAXiB3QrMI?hl=en_US
“Jews on the Web” Submission for IHMEC
The
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center (IHMEC), located in
Skokie, Ill., draws visitors from around the state and the nation as
Illinois’ premiere resource for Holocaust remembrance and education
and human rights programming.
The
Museum is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Holocaust by
honoring the memories of the six million Jews who were lost and by
teaching universal lessons that combat hatred, prejudice and
indifference. The museum fulfills its mission through the exhibition,
preservation and interpretation of its collections and through
education programs and initiatives that foster the promotion of human
rights and the elimination of genocide.
Housed
inside a 65,000 square-foot building designed by renowned Chicago
architect Stanley Tigerman, the museum’s structure represents a
three-part journey from dark to light, reflecting the journey of the
Jewish people from Nazi Germany, through the Holocaust, to today.
The
Museum’s Zev and Shifra Karkomi permanent exhibition features more
than 500 artifacts, documents and photographs from 1930s Europe and
beyond - including an original German rail car - that tell the story
of Jewish people and the many other minority groups persecuted in the
Holocaust.
The
Museum also features a Youth Exhibit, which uses interactive tools to
introduce children to the Holocaust. In addition, the Museum’s
Legacy of Absence Gallery focuses on modern genocides and serves as a
visual reminder of the atrocities still taking place around the
world.
The
Museum aims to fight prejudice by teaching future generations the
universal lessons of the Holocaust, and by empowering them to become
activists in the fight against unchallenged bigotry. To this end, the
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center offers a series of
programs and travelling exhibitions aimed at drawing insights from
the Holocaust including the Voices
of Conscience lecture
series which brings international human rights figures to Illinois.
IHMEC
also serves as an educational center that teaches school children
about the importance of diversity and tolerance, carefully
integrating Darfur and other modern-day genocides into its curricula
for both teachers and their students. The Museum anticipates as many
as 250,000 student visitors each year.
Additionally,
the Museum’s Brill Resource Center provides guests with access to
the complete set of volumes on the Nuremberg Trials, Holocaust
encyclopedias, anthologies of the European ghettos and resistance
movements, and more than 2,000 testimonies of Midwest Holocaust
survivors as recorded by the Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual
History and Education, founded by Steven Spielberg.
IHMEC
is ideally situated in Skokie because of the Village’s connection
to the Holocaust. After the War, Skokie became an enclave for many
survivors and has still has a large Jewish community.
The
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is a project of the
Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois. Founded by Holocaust
survivors in 1981, the organization is dedicated to teaching about
the Holocaust and the dangers of unchallenged hate. To learn more,
visit www.ilholocaustmuseum.org.
Holocaust Butterfly Project Encourages Compassion
By: Wendy Young, LMSW, BCD
It is always nice to see our children develop a sense of compassion and caring for others. If you are looking for a project that will encourage just that, consider being part of the butterfly project from the Holocaust Museum of Houston. May the Holocaust Museum gather more butterflies than they have set out to collect and may we all band together to show the goodness in humankind...with the hope to someday obliterate man's
inhumanity to man.
In an effort to remember the victims of the Holocaust, the Holocaust Museum is collecting 1.5 million handmade butterflies. These butterflies will symbolize the 15,000 innocent children that passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp during the years 1942-1944 as well as the 1,500,000 innocent children that perished during the Holocaust.
Butterfly Requirements:
Butterflies should be no larger than 8x10 inches. Butterflies may be of any medium the artist chooses, but one-dimensional submissions are preferred. Glitter should not be used.
Send butterflies by June 30, 2008, with the following information included:
Your name/Organization or School/Your address/Your email address/Total number of butterflies sent If possible email a photograph of your butterflies to butterflyproject@hmh.org
Mail your butterflies to:
Holocaust Museum Houston
Education Department
5401 Caroline St.
Houston, TX 77004
Web Sites of Interest
www.hmh.org (Holocaust Museum Houston)
"The last, the very last, So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow. Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing against a white stone...Such, such a yellow is carried lightly 'way up high'. It went away I'm sure because it wished to kiss the world good-bye. For seven weeks I've lived here, Penned up inside this ghetto. But I have found what I love here. The dandelions call to me And the white chestnut branches in the court. Only
I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one. Butterflies don't live in here, in the ghetto.
Pavel Friedman, April 6, 1942
(Born in Prague, 1921/Deported to Terezin, 1942/Died in Auschwitz, 1944)
About the Author
Wendy Young, LMSW, BCD, is a child and family therapist in private practice in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Visit her at www.kidlutions.com Kidlutions: Solutions for Kids...because kids have problems, too!
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HOLOCAUST-Related
If you or a family member were directly involved
with or impacted by the Holocaust,
please send us your story for publication.
We do not provide remuneration. Hopefully, knowing that sharing the experiences are helping others to 'Never Forget' will be 'reward' enough. Write from your heart, as well as your mind. Email us by clicking on the image below. Thank you!
Survivors Remember Kristallnacht:
Susan (Hilsenrath) Warsinger
Survivors Remember Kristallnacht:
Rabbi Gerd Jacob (Zwienicki) Wiener
Kristallnacht - Horror On The Timeline Of World War II
By Daniel M Delott
Thousands of Jewish homes and almost 8,000 Jewish shops were ransacked and destroyed during what is now known as Kristallnacht, or "Night of the Broken Glass", throughout Germany on the 9th and 10th of November 1938. Both the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Schutzstaffel (SS) rampaged Germany with sledgehammers as they smashed windows, doors, and buildings belonging to or housing Jewish families and businesses. It was during this part of the timeline of World War 2 that more than 30,000 Jewish men were taken away to concentration camps, more than 1,600 synagogues ransacked, and many Jews beaten to death in their homes and on the street.
Adolf Hitler, the mad man behind all events to cleanse Germany of the Jews and other unclean races, planned for this event to take place on Martin Luther's birthday. Hitler, at this point on the timeline of World War 2, was following the outline set forth by Luther in 1543 in his writing On the Jews and Their Lies. However, it is proclaimed that the whole incident was set in motion by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Jew, when he shot and killed a German Embassy staff member in Paris in retaliation for the way his family suffered at the hands of the Nazis.
Almost two weeks prior to Kristallnacht, more than 15,000 Jews including Grynszpan's family, all originally from Poland were forcibly expelled from Germany by train and dumped at the Polish border. The world's reaction to Hitler's "bloody vengeance against the Jews" was not well received by any means. The United States recalled its German ambassador permanently immediately following the event.
Take a deep breath and check out Timeline For World War 2 for even more articles on this fascinating time in our world's history.
www.youtube.com/v/QEcB7FX2UjI?version=3&hl=en_US
www.youtube.com/v/uine5MhOc0I?hl=en_US
Arthur Szyk: The Art of Resistance
The Central Database of
Shoah Victims Names
Marcel Marceau - An untold story of this brave man.
Man Learns His Dad Saved Hundreds of Jewish Soldiers
in WWII - Click here.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
"Never again!" - That takes actions on our part. On your part.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Please learn more about the Holocaust.
Share the lessons taught and of those who perished,
those who sought an end to the horrors,
those who gave their lives to save Jews (and others),
and NEVER FORGET!
Visit www.holocaustremembrance.com
And share this website with others. Thank you.
"An Open Door" - Jewish rescue in the Philipines
A very much forgotten/unknown story of rescue and hope.
A Brave Mother Makes The 'Ultimate Sacrifice'
Any child would have mixed feelings. Those of love, hate, sadness, betrayal, and more hurt.
These feelings would be natural for any child to experience, let alone a child whose mother gave her up during the Nazi reign of terror in the 1940's.
Frances Cutler Hahn was such a child. When she was 3 years young, she was left at a children's home. She was Jewish unlike the other children. Her mother visited when she could, but she refused to take her crying child with her when she left. At five years of age, her mother perished in a concentration camp.
Eventually, Frances came to America and has lived here for many years. It took a long time, for her to understand the true sacrifice of her mother. One that saved Frances' life.
A Tribute to Nancy Wake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juVSj6qhOJ0
Holocaust survivor, 112, is world's oldest man,
Guinness World Records says
(March 11, 2016)
www.youtube.com/embed/C-Xka-UC_Mk?version=3&hl=en_US
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 27, 2016
Some International Holocaust Remembrance Day Events
Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO -
Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs
by artist Nathan Rapoport
www.youtube.com/embed/ebngPdtJj4I?version=3&hl=en_US
Jewish Family Survived Holocaust by Living in a Cave
www.youtube.com/embed/Zg3zK_oVitQ?version=3&hl=en_US
To Jewish victims of nazi genocide
in Belgrade and Serbia 1941-1944
www.youtube.com/embed/w1rM5rsk4P4?version=3&hl=en_US
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Eggi Lewysohn
www.youtube.com/embed/vh4IX4lG6Hg?version=3&hl=en_US
Man who saved 669 kids from Death Gets a Tearful Surprise on TV.
I challenge anyone to watch each of these short videos and not be moved to tears by what one sees, hears, and learns. If you ever doubted the goodness in people or that good deeds are ever done anonymously, as they often should be done, then please watch these videos.
And, please share them with others. - Thank you.
www.youtube.com/v/rQzqfsgftBo?hl=en_US
Nicholas Winton - How one man changed the world
Yom Hashoah 2014
www.youtube.com/v/YEsSoDy-mXw?version=3&hl=en_US
The Great Jewish Dance
www.youtube.com/v/kyv2S19s67Y?version=3&hl=en_US
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
www.youtube.com/v/sh65gCVgXYo?hl=en_US
From RABBI MARC KLINE
(This describes something from a previous time. The points made are still important.)
The rest of this week is going to be difficult! Today is Yom HaShoah - The day we remember both the horrors of NAZI destruction and the celebration of our survival. Despite the best efforts of the Third Reich to rid the world of Jews, we are still standing and flourishing, and the Reich exists in the history books as an abomination that "was." While our local Jewish community will be commemorating Yom HaShoah
together on Sunday, the actual date designated for the commemoration is today. Horrifically, As we speak, the National Socialist Movement of America is opening its annual convention in Frankfort, Kentucky, and this Saturday is holding a demonstration at the State Capital Building.
Even while the Socialist party disavows violence, one look at their website demonstrates that Shakespeare was right, “A rose by any other name … smells.” Across the website, the swastika and the lightning bolts of the SS boldly
hold prominence. Their mission statement affirms their white supremacy ideology. Their 25 point plan is vocally and specifically Anti-Jewish, and more generally anti-everything not white, Anglo-Saxon. The nature of their rhetoric is pretty violent. I refuse to believe that it is purely coincident that their national meeting is the week of Yom HaShoah, and that their rally is on the Sabbath. Okay, I get it, they hate us.
I find a few things ironic. Here is a white group, who accepts as the exclusive path
to God (if one exists at all), a man who is at lightest Semitic, but more likely African Black. Jesus was not white (nor were any of the Biblical figures for that matter – can you imagine an Abraham emerging from the depths of the Middle East or Asia as a White man?). Oh, and by the way, Jesus was Jewish. That said; I am sick and appalled at their message and their presence. I do, however, believe in our nation’s constitution and the rights it protects for even these people to assemble. As it happened in Skokie,
Illinois almost 30 years ago, the United States Supreme Court argued that if we start denying groups with whom we disagree the right to assemble, we create a slippery slope. We deny the really unpopular groups the rights today and, at the same time, set precedent for picking and choosing who has rights and who does not for the future. There is already way too much of that happening politically in this country. They can march, and we can call them vile.
There are groups who plan to respond to their demonstration
by creating their own. I thought long and hard about joining … leading such a counter-event. I decided that the more attention we pay this mob, the more media coverage they get. Even bad media coverage is good media coverage for a group like this. And, if there is a confrontation, we give them an opportunity to spew more of their hate on camera, driving even those who deny their hate to potentially behave violently. Hate begets hate, even from people who love. For some, the fear it evokes will be damaging. For
others who find themselves on the fringe or otherwise tending to violence, this gives them a green flag to join in the mix. Additionally, any confrontational response only creates further risk for injury and destruction of our lives, property, and the sanctity of our communities.
I would admonish the media to ignore their presence and not even show up. Let it come and go without fanfare, without providing a forum to spread hate, and without emboldening them to act with even more ugliness that an open
camera and microphone might provide. As an American I am disgusted. As a Jew, I am not afraid, yet. If their voice becomes main stream, I will become afraid. Since their voice is a hateful distraction, I love my country and trust America; I want to let this go away as it came. I understand that the city is going to pay for busses to transport these people to the site of their protest. Assuming the counter-demonstrations, I would much rather pay for the bus and avoid the violent confrontations on the way, than
run the risk of violence, or deny the “assembly permit” if the mob will not pay for it and watch the Commonwealth be sued over the matter – ensuring media coverage.
PLEASE STAY AWAY! DO NOT GIVE THEM THE FORUM TO SPEW THEIR HATE! PLEASE DO NOT RISK THE VIOLENCE THAT HAS OCCASIONED SO MANY OF THESE DEMONSTRATIONS; IT ONLY HELPS THEM PROFFER THEIR HATE.
Kristallnacht
London, this season (2011) is offering a powerful rendition of Arthur Miller's play, Broken Glass. Starring Antony Sher, Tara Fitzgerald, and Stanley Townsend.
On November 9, 2011, Wednesday, the Hamilton Jewish Federation Holocaust Education Committee will screen a documentary regarding Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers at the Adas Israel Synagogue on Cline Avenue South at 7:30 p.m. - An important film.
'Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel' by Yann Martel
'Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel' by Yann Martel is the brilliant and potent journey that takes you into the world of survivors who know what it is to live a life in the face of evil. The narrator of the book is a novelist named Henry who is going through writer’s block after having written a successful first novel. He strongly believes the story of holocaust has not been told enough through fiction. The author believes readers would understand the Holocaust better through fiction.
Fate Helps Henry
In the book 'Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel' by Yann Martel, at the time when
the author feels stuck, fate brings him close to a taxidermist who has written a
play about a donkey and howler monkey, named Beatrice and Virgil. When Henry
hears parts of the play, he finds out the taxidermist has creatively used the
animals to describe the worst acts of mankind, murder, annihilation, torture and
sadism. The animals want to survive the cruel acts and record the tales at the
same time, and still remain truthful to life.
Record The Lives Truthfully
The survival of humanity can be ensured through recording the existence of
dead people, though the recording must be good and truthful, or else the purpose
would be defeated. The art of taxidermy preserves the existence of the hunted
animals and if it is done shabbily, it ruins the existence of the animal. The
taxidermist in the story became one (a taxidermist) with the purpose of bearing
witness, and that’s the reason why Henry also wants to write the novel.
Helpless Yet Human
The portions where the play "Beatrice and Virgil" (ISBN-13: 9780670084517)
takes place are very interesting. Here the animals express helplessness while
facing horrible situations, and remain noble at the same time. The narrator
earlier felt that after suffering the violence, the only feelings one can go
through were despair, joylessness, suspicion, fear and anxiety. What he
overlooks are the millions who have themselves suffered terror and went on to
lead human and enriching lives. The donkey and monkey celebrate life even when
they are going through misery.
Celebrate Life Even When The Times Are Tough
Henry comes up with games to celebrate life though they end up reminding you
of the holocaust at the same time. The survivors don’t only have to be witness
to what happened, they have to celebrate life as well. The book makes the
readers think about the abysmal levels to which humans may go and our ability to
survive. Don’t Go By What You Think
Despite what you think, Beatrice & Virgil is a different story altogether, different from anything else you might have read. It is interesting to see how the story has been associated with the holocaust. The author, Yann Martel is a master at revealing everything slowly. Although you know that genocide will come into the picture, you never really figure out when it does so. Just like the German Jews, who realized there was a problem only when they on their way to death. The author strongly believes every culture needs to tell fictional stories about a topic, if only to express how it feels about them.
Been through some horrible times? You can come out of it, that’s what the book says. Buy 'Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel' by Yann Martel a great prices only at http://www.uread.com/book/beatrice-virgil-yann-martel/9780670084517.
Holocaust Survivors and Their Second Generation Children
By: Hugh Rosen
In my book, "Silent Battlefields: A Novel," I write about Holocaust survivors and their adult children. In addition, there is a character in the book that had been a Hitler Youth and German soldier, as well as his young adult Child. Although this piece stresses Jewish people, the vast majority of the Holocaust victims, inclusive of those taken to concentration and death camps were political prisoners, criminals,
developmentally disabled persons, gays, and so called "gypsies."
Regarding Holocaust survivors, I would like to introduce a controversial subject that is debated amongst psychotherapists, in particular amongst psychiatrists, psychologists, and clinical social workers. There are those, cutting across all three disciplines, holding the view that holocaust survivors who have demonstrated psychopathology subsequent to liberation are all people who have had mental disorders prior to internment that predisposed them to the psychic problems they later experienced. Other professionals
maintain that such is not necessarily the case and that the trauma of concentration camp life provides a sufficient basis for the symptoms displayed by the survivors. It is my position that the latter assertion is correct. Further, I think that the former view constitutes an unwarranted assumption and even a presumptuous one. It would be difficult to advance hard evidence to support it, since there is no way in retrospect to conduct a scientific experiment verifying it. Consequently, the conclusion rests upon
mere speculation. The atrocious conditions and inhumane living in concentration camps and the atrocities committed within them, are, in my opinion, sufficient to produce psychological disorders in even the most psychologically healthy individuals.
Many Jews who survived the Holocaust were often placed in untenable, even unbearable, positions in which they were faced with choices of survival by betraying their own families or fellow compatriots. Some Jews in the role of a Kapos (a person having supervisory control over a group of Jews in the concentration camps) administered harsh, even cruel, behavior to others, for which they were rewarded camp amenities not available to others. One should not sit in judgment of such people decades later. Unless we were
to find ourselves in the same existential situation, we cannot know how we would have behaved; we can only know how we would have liked to behave. Many such survivors paid a heavy price of guilt throughout the remainder of their lives, not simply for surviving, but for the way they managed to survive.
Holocaust survivors often tended to exclusively be comfortable only with others who had survived. Non-Jews were looked upon with suspicion and not to be trusted. A tacit code of silence prevailed in the families they formed so that the second-generation children were protected from the atrocities their parents had been subjected to. Another reason for the silence was to protect themselves from exposing the utter humiliations that they had endured while in the camps. They did not wish their children to know of
this.
It was not uncommon for survivors to emerge from the camps as hypochondriacal. Their symptoms were converted into psychosomatic disorders. As a result, visits to the doctor for physical treatment frequently occurred for problems that were psychic in origin. They can be plagued by tenacious memories throughout their lives and visited by nightmares like unwelcome guests that long overstay their time.
Parents of Holocaust survivors commonly proved to be overly protective of their children, which led to the restraining of the children's range of allowable behaviors, much to his or her frustration. Second generation children growing up were often protective of their parents, in turn. Sometimes they were made to feel guilty for raising their own normal developmental concerns. Survivor parents when hearing from their children about the problems they were encountering would respond by pointing out that such issues
were nothing compared to what their parents had gone through during the Holocaust. Hence, the code of silence would eventually become bilateral. Many second generation children, painfully aware of the past suffering their parents had been forced to live through, internalized their parents comparisons of the two sets of problems, leading the children to feel ashamed of bringing up their own concerns or to remain silent so as to protect their parents from having to listen to such "trivial" matters. The
families were often symbiotic in nature, making it difficult for the children to separate and individuate as happens as a part of normal adolescent development in the thrust toward the approach of early adulthood. Second-generation children, through transmission of their parents' earlier trauma in the concentration camps, not uncommonly resulted in their own distrust of the outside world and made close relationships with peers difficult to come by. It is not unlike the more recent phenomenon in which persons
with AIDS no longer feel connected to the disease free community and seek out only others who are experiencing the same physical and psychological experiences they are experiencing.
Nothing I have written here should be misconstrued as criticism of Holocaust survivors. They were compelled to live, if, indeed, they could manage to do so, in an evil environment of daily horrors that no human being should ever have to endure. As for their children, they were caught in a web of trauma transmission, by virtue of their second-generation status, that was inescapable. Further, each survivor, child, and family had their own individual identity, so that not everything said here can be applied as a
generalization across the board.
Most importantly of all, many survivors and their families, despite their lingering psychic injuries went on to lead lives of hope, renewal, and success. One has only to witness the life of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who went on to provide the world with moral leadership and has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.Sadly, genocide is not an evil from mid-Twentieth Century only. It continues to persist, involving other ethnic, racial, and religious groups. The global reawakening of anti-Semitism is itself
a threat.
About the Author
Hugh Rosen is the author of Silent Battlefields. Visit his Web site http://www.hughrosen.com to learn more about his novel of second generation Holocaust survivors.
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