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Teaching the Holocaust Using the Humanities: Integrating Photographs, Literature, Art, and Poetry to tell the Human Story
Registration information coming soon!
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM In Person
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED AT:
To register for the Zoom presentation please visit: http://lappinfoundation.tfaforms.net/36
Please join neighbors and friends on Sunday, Aug 20th, at 7 PM, as the church hosts a thought-provoking and timely discussion about the persistent and growing evil of antisemitism which affects the safety and security of our communities. Presenters will explore the menace of this often violent hatred and bigotry from a historical perspective to horrific present day occurrences including a discussion on activism based on a newfound vigilance and re-connection.
Moderator: Naj Wikoff, Lake Placid News, columnist
Presenters:
Rabbi David Joslin, Beth Israel Temple, Plattsburgh, NY
Tom Glaser, VT Holocaust Memorial speaker and family member of Holocaust Survivors
Sue Semegram, Board President, Lake Placid Synagogue
Karen Glass, Parent and Advocate
Zoom link for those not able to attend in person:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88270720386?pwd=SGhhREdXUXowM2t0MlRsbHdhMkIwUT09
Join VT Holocaust Memorial in person Sunday, July 16th at 2pm, as we present "Holocaust History and Its Connections in Vermont" at the Ethan Allen Homestead Museum in Burlington.
VTHM vice president and daughter of Holocaust survivors, Miriam Rosenbloom, will share the background and efforts of our nonprofit organization. Tom Glaser, a son of Holocaust survivors and a VTHM speaker bureau member will be sharing a presentation of his family’s harrowing story of survival through the Holocaust. By imparting the lessons from the Holocaust VTHM hopes that current and future generations of Vermonters will develop respect for all.
At the conclusion of the presentation, participants will be invited to take part in VTHM’s “Leaf Project” -- a memorial to the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust.
A Q&A will take place at the end.
VTHM Speakers Bureau member Tom Glaser will be the featured guest in Plattsburgh at Temple Beth Israel’s Yom HaShoah commemoration event.
Zoom link to come.
For live stream register at: https://www.jcogs.org/event/yom-hashoah-2023
Join the Lappin Foundation and its community sponsors, including VTHM, via Zoom for a memorable International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration featuring testimony by Holocaust survivor Lusia Milch: Lessons of the Holocaust as a Cautionary Tale for Today. Welcome remarks by Miriam Asnes, Senior Advisor to the U.S. State Department Special Envoy on Holocaust Issues.
The program is free, and everyone is welcome.
For more information email sfeinstein@lappinfoundation.org.
Please join the Holocaust Resource Center for an International Holocaust Remembrance Day screening of the film, "Three Minutes: A Lengthening". The film centers around three minutes of footage, shot by David Kurtz in 1938, which represent the only moving images remaining of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk, Poland before the Holocaust.
The film will be available for classroom viewing from January 24, 2023 at 9am until January 26, 2023 at 11pm.
Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IpfDGB3Dc4tgZENDFWCYZ4DpO3FYWAsziCF_DSFjI6o/edit
Please fill in the registration by Friday, January 20 to receive streaming instructions. For more information, please contact Dr. Adara Goldberg - agoldber@kean.edu / 908-737-4660.
For more information visit: VT Holocaust Education Week
VASS will be hosting an in-person conference for Vermont social studies educators on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 in Montpelier. VTHM will be there to highlight our programs and to share information on the 1st annual Vermont Holocaust Education Week taking place January 23-27, 2023.
In commemoration of the Holocaust VTHM, in cooperation with the Fletcher Free Library’s “The Courage to Remember” exhibition, remembers the victims, survivors, children, and rescuers during this memorial event. Join with community to recite prayers, light memorial candles, and hear from Keynote speaker, Holocaust survivor and UVM Professor Emeritus Henia Lewin.
This program is supported in part by the Vermont Humanities.
This program is supported in part by the Vermont Humanities.
Produced by Steve McQueen and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, Bianca Stigter’s documentary Three Minutes – A Lengthening transforms rare color home-movie footage shot in 1938 Poland into a testament to victims of the Holocaust. Home movies may be the most haunting cinema of all, taking on the luster of loss and mortality with each passing year. The home movies Glenn Kurtz found in his parents’ home in Florida were rarer and more precious still. In Three Minutes – A Lengthening, Bianca Stigter transforms these shimmering images from over 80 years ago into a remarkable meditation on what it means for a lost community to be captured on film. The footage gives Stigter rich material to illustrate the detective work needed to recover the stories of a village destroyed by the Holocaust. As Stigter runs the original footage sometimes in slow motion, sometimes still, forwards and backwards to draw meaning from each frame, the distance originally created by looking at 83-year-old fashions and hairstyles collapses into the immediate present. To see children grinning or people craning their necks to get into the shot is to watch humanity as it always exists in the presence of a camera. At the end of 1939, the people visible in the film, and all the Jews in Nasielsk, were deported to ghettos, then sent to the Treblinka extermination camp. Kurtz’s found footage, which had almost rotted just before it was discovered and restored, is the only visual record remaining.
Zoom Event
VTHM joins the Lappin Foundation as a co-sponsor of Our Will to Live – A Message from Terezin, with Terezin scholar Mark Ludwig on Wednesday, April 13 at 7:30 pm ET on Zoom.
Please register via this link: Our Will To Live - A Message from Terezin
VTHM Board member and speaker, Heidi Fishman, will discuss her book “Tutti’s Promise.”
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Registration is limited for this in-person professional development workshop. Visit our Events section for details and registration information.
The Fletcher Free Library, in coordination with VTHM, is honored to bring “The Courage to Remember” exhibit to Burlington from March 21st through May 1, 2022. This exhibition was originally created by The Simon Wiesenthal Center and is being shared by the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County.
Opening ceremony Thursday, March 24th
Accompanying programming information below.
All programs are free and open to all.
Debora Steinerman, will share a personal family story of Holocaust survival as well as information about the Vermont Holocaust Memorial, how the organization came to be, what they do and are working on, and what VTHM’s mission means to Vermonters.
Via Zoom
The community is invited to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year’s commemoration is dedicated to the memory of the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust. The featured speaker will be Michael Gruenbaum, survivor of Terezin and author of Somewhere There is Still a Sun. The guest moderator will be Josh Kraft, President of Kraft Family Philanthropies.
The program is free and everyone is welcome. Registration required HERE
Heidi Fishman will join the Mt. Abraham Union Middle/High School to share her family story of survival in the Holocaust.
Suess and Szyk, among the most prolific anti-Hitler and anti-Axis political cartoonists during WWII and the Holocaust, were propaganda artists united for a common cause, the defeat of the fascism at home and abroad. Explore how these two men of different faiths used their creative talents to help defeat American isolationism and expose fascists and anti-Semites living in America.
Join us for an engaging presentation by returning guest speaker Gregg Philipson on their early lives and works and how world events altered their creative styles. We will view many original artifacts and art work from the Gregg and Michelle Philipson Collection and Archive to make this a powerful visual experience and a program not to be missed!
The program is free and everyone is welcome. Registration required HERE
Debora Steinerman shares her family’s story of survival in the Holocaust with 10th grade history students.
Debora Steinerman and Heidi Fishman present the lessons from their families’ Holocaust survival to the 7th and 8th grade students of the middle school.
Miriam Rosenbloom speaks to 11th and 12th grade BFA Fairfax students about the lessons to be learned from her parents Holocaust survival.
Miriam Rosenbloom addresses Current Events and Philosophy students to share her family’s story of survival in the Holocaust.
