Tag: Holocaust

The Holocaust Speaker Series, held each Wednesday at 11:00 am, features Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors sharing stories of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Join us on Wednesday, September 22 at 11:00 am via Zoom with Matt Yosafat.

Matt Yosafat was born in Katerini, Greece, in 1936. In 1942, he went into hiding with the Nazi occupation of Greece. The Yosafats hid in places including a cave and tobacco shelter, rarely safe and often separated. Ultimately, the Yosafat family reunited in Katerini and were liberated, but the outbreak of a civil war led the family to emigrate to the United States in 1951. In 1955, Matt met his wife, Anneliese — who had arrived in the United States with her family shortly after the war — and they were soon married in 1959.

The Holocaust Speaker Series, held each Wednesday at 11:00 am, features Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors sharing stories of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Join us on Wednesday, September 15 at 11:00 am via Zoom with Roni Berenson.

The Holocaust Speaker Series, held each Wednesday at 11:00 am, features Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors sharing stories of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Join us on Wednesday, September 15 at 11:00 am via Zoom with Roni Berenson.

The Holocaust Speaker Series, held each Wednesday at 11:00 am, features Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors sharing stories of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Join us on Wednesday, September 1 at 11:00 am via Zoom with Mark Heiman.

Mark tells the story of his family, originally from Demmelsdorf, a small farming community in Bavaria. Mark’s grandfather, Karl, served in the German army in WWI. He later moved to Munich where he established a textile business and raised a family. Mark’s father, Paul, was 12 years old when he witnessed his Jewish school being burned down the day after Kristallnacht. Arrested on Kristallnacht, Karl was interned in Dachau concentration camp. After 30 days, Karl left Dachau and was given 48 hours to leave Germany. The journey took the family to Switzerland, France, England, and finally to Cincinnati where they settled and thrived. Mark also discusses events leading to the Holocaust and its relevance today.

The Holocaust Speaker Series, held each Wednesday at 11:00 am, features Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors sharing stories of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Join us on Wednesday, September 1 at 11:00 am via Zoom with Mark Heiman.

Mark tells the story of his family, originally from Demmelsdorf, a small farming community in Bavaria. Mark’s grandfather, Karl, served in the German army in WWI. He later moved to Munich where he established a textile business and raised a family. Mark’s father, Paul, was 12 years old when he witnessed his Jewish school being burned down the day after Kristallnacht. Arrested on Kristallnacht, Karl was interned in Dachau concentration camp. After 30 days, Karl left Dachau and was given 48 hours to leave Germany. The journey took the family to Switzerland, France, England, and finally to Cincinnati where they settled and thrived. Mark also discusses events leading to the Holocaust and its relevance today.

Yom Hashoah 2020: A Week of Digital Holocaust Remembrance

While we are unable to gather in person for Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), please join us online Sunday, April 19 through Thursday, April 23 for a week of moving Holocaust remembrance programs to remember the six million victims of the Holocaust and honor the survivors. Below is the full schedule of events, which can also be viewed online at: holocaustandhumanity.org/yom-hashoah-2020/

Sunday, April 19 at 1:00 PM
Webinar with Dr. Rachel Korazim on “Facing Absence”

For many years Holocaust (Shoa) commemoration focused on the horrible loss and its cruel details. The laws, the markings, the segregation, deportation and murder. Our songs and stories tried hopelessly to capture the pain and the indescribable suffering. We should never let them be erased and forgotten. Yet it is time for us to try and capture the memory of their lives and make them our memories. We need to understand that they did not just disappear – they left us a legacy of how of how to walk in their footsteps. Visiting the places they lived in even when all we have is a wall, an empty lot or a synagogue turned into community center – should become part of our journey.

This is an invitation to join my journey to rural Hungary in the wine land of Tokai:
We will explore the renewal of Jewish life in the beautifully renovated synagogue of Mad. We will imagine back Jewish family life as we face the empty lot where the Mikve (ritual bath) stood. We will listen to music still sung in those parts and remember the rabbis who composed it. The main centers of Jewish life nowadays are in North America and in Israel yet our memories linger on in Europe, in the land our forefathers and mothers called home. These too we are commended to remember.Register here for the Zoom webinar with Dr. Korazim.

Monday, April 20 at Noon
Performance by Violinist Guy Braunstein

Watch acclaimed violinist and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s 2019-2020 Artist-in-Residence Guy Braunstein perform meaningful musical selections.

Performance video will be available on HHC’s Facebook and Vimeo pages.

Tuesday, April 21 at Noon
Virtual Commemoration: How We Will Carry Their Memory

Join us for a virtual commemoration including readings, candle lighting, and a communal moment of silence at 12:15 PM. If you cannot join us online, we invite you to take a moment of silence and light a candle in your home to remember those who perished in the Holocaust.

Register here for the Zoom commemoration.

Wednesday, April 22 at 11:00 AM
Holocaust Survivor Testimony

Local Holocaust survivor Zahava Rendler will share her story of living in hiding as a child during the Holocaust as part of our Holocaust Speaker Series, sponsored by Margaret and Michael Valentine.

Register here for the Zoom program.

Thursday, April 23
Carrying Remembrance into the Future

11:00 AM: View local Holocaust survivor Dr. Michael Meyer’s oral history interview to learn about his experience fleeing the Holocaust.

Dr. Meyer’s interview will be available on HHC’s Facebook and Vimeo pages.

Throughout the Day: Watch students perform poems inspired by the experiences of local Holocaust survivors and hear essays written by students reflecting on the importance of continuing to tell the stories of Holocaust survivors.

Videos will be posted throughout the day on HHC’s Facebook page.

We look forward to seeing you online during our Week of Remembrance, presented in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, Jewish Family Service, and the Mayerson JCC.

Questions? Please contact Sarah Schneider at sschneider@cincyhhc.org or (513) 487-3055.

Unprecedented times can bring out the best in humanity. As this situation evolves, the Holocaust & Humanity Center remains steadfast in its mission of ensuring the lessons of the Holocaust inspire action today. Your support helps us move forward during this time. We encourage you to consider donating to HHC as an investment in our mission.

Yom Hashoah 2020: A Week of Digital Holocaust Remembrance

While we are unable to gather in person for Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), please join us online Sunday, April 19 through Thursday, April 23 for a week of moving Holocaust remembrance programs to remember the six million victims of the Holocaust and honor the survivors. Below is the full schedule of events, which can also be viewed online at: holocaustandhumanity.org/yom-hashoah-2020/

Sunday, April 19 at 1:00 PM
Webinar with Dr. Rachel Korazim on “Facing Absence”

For many years Holocaust (Shoa) commemoration focused on the horrible loss and its cruel details. The laws, the markings, the segregation, deportation and murder. Our songs and stories tried hopelessly to capture the pain and the indescribable suffering. We should never let them be erased and forgotten. Yet it is time for us to try and capture the memory of their lives and make them our memories. We need to understand that they did not just disappear – they left us a legacy of how of how to walk in their footsteps. Visiting the places they lived in even when all we have is a wall, an empty lot or a synagogue turned into community center – should become part of our journey.

This is an invitation to join my journey to rural Hungary in the wine land of Tokai:
We will explore the renewal of Jewish life in the beautifully renovated synagogue of Mad. We will imagine back Jewish family life as we face the empty lot where the Mikve (ritual bath) stood. We will listen to music still sung in those parts and remember the rabbis who composed it. The main centers of Jewish life nowadays are in North America and in Israel yet our memories linger on in Europe, in the land our forefathers and mothers called home. These too we are commended to remember.Register here for the Zoom webinar with Dr. Korazim.

Monday, April 20 at Noon
Performance by Violinist Guy Braunstein

Watch acclaimed violinist and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s 2019-2020 Artist-in-Residence Guy Braunstein perform meaningful musical selections.

Performance video will be available on HHC’s Facebook and Vimeo pages.

Tuesday, April 21 at Noon
Virtual Commemoration: How We Will Carry Their Memory

Join us for a virtual commemoration including readings, candle lighting, and a communal moment of silence at 12:15 PM. If you cannot join us online, we invite you to take a moment of silence and light a candle in your home to remember those who perished in the Holocaust.

Register here for the Zoom commemoration.

Wednesday, April 22 at 11:00 AM
Holocaust Survivor Testimony

Local Holocaust survivor Zahava Rendler will share her story of living in hiding as a child during the Holocaust as part of our Holocaust Speaker Series, sponsored by Margaret and Michael Valentine.

Register here for the Zoom program.

Thursday, April 23
Carrying Remembrance into the Future

11:00 AM: View local Holocaust survivor Dr. Michael Meyer’s oral history interview to learn about his experience fleeing the Holocaust.

Dr. Meyer’s interview will be available on HHC’s Facebook and Vimeo pages.

Throughout the Day: Watch students perform poems inspired by the experiences of local Holocaust survivors and hear essays written by students reflecting on the importance of continuing to tell the stories of Holocaust survivors.

Videos will be posted throughout the day on HHC’s Facebook page.

We look forward to seeing you online during our Week of Remembrance, presented in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, Jewish Family Service, and the Mayerson JCC.

Questions? Please contact Sarah Schneider at sschneider@cincyhhc.org or (513) 487-3055.

Unprecedented times can bring out the best in humanity. As this situation evolves, the Holocaust & Humanity Center remains steadfast in its mission of ensuring the lessons of the Holocaust inspire action today. Your support helps us move forward during this time. We encourage you to consider donating to HHC as an investment in our mission.

 

Theodore Bikel In the Shoes of Aleichem

March 8th

Schedule:

3:00-4:30pm. Film: Theodore Bikel in the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem

4:30-5:30pm Audience Discussion with special guest Aimee Ginspburg Bikel (Theodore Bikel’s widow)

5:30-6:00pm Reception

About the Film:

‘Portraits of two beloved icons–Sholom Aleichem and Theodore Bikel–are woven together in this enchanting new documentary. The two men have much in common: wit, wisdom and talent, all shot through with deep humanity and Yiddishkeit.

This new film Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem combines Bikel’s charismatic storytelling and masterful performances with a broader exploration of Aleichem’s remarkable life and work.

Theodore Bikel, the unstoppable performer whose career spanned more than 150 screen roles (including an Oscar-nominated turn in The Defiant Ones) and countless stage and musical productions, was also the foremost interpreter of Sholom Aleichem’s work. Bikel, who passed away in 2015, played Tevye the Milkman on stage more than 2,000 times. Bikel animated Aleichem’s work through his creation of two celebrated musical plays about the great Russian author.

A pioneer of modern Jewish literature who championed and luxuriated in the Yiddish language, Sholom Aleichem created dozens of indelible characters. His Tevye the Milkman, Motl the Cantor’s Son, and Menachem Mendl–“shtetl Jews” for whom humor and pathos were two sides of the same Yiddish coin–remain invaluable windows into pre-war Eastern European Jewish life, real and imagined.’ -Jewishfilm.org

RSVP here

Contact Lisa B. Frankel, Director of Educational Outreach at lfrankel@huc.edu

 

 

Theodore Bikel In the Shoes of Aleichem

March 8th

Schedule:

3:00-4:30pm. Film: Theodore Bikel in the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem

4:30-5:30pm Audience Discussion with special guest Aimee Ginspburg Bikel (Theodore Bikel’s widow)

5:30-6:00pm Reception

About the Film:

‘Portraits of two beloved icons–Sholom Aleichem and Theodore Bikel–are woven together in this enchanting new documentary. The two men have much in common: wit, wisdom and talent, all shot through with deep humanity and Yiddishkeit.

This new film Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem combines Bikel’s charismatic storytelling and masterful performances with a broader exploration of Aleichem’s remarkable life and work.

Theodore Bikel, the unstoppable performer whose career spanned more than 150 screen roles (including an Oscar-nominated turn in The Defiant Ones) and countless stage and musical productions, was also the foremost interpreter of Sholom Aleichem’s work. Bikel, who passed away in 2015, played Tevye the Milkman on stage more than 2,000 times. Bikel animated Aleichem’s work through his creation of two celebrated musical plays about the great Russian author.

A pioneer of modern Jewish literature who championed and luxuriated in the Yiddish language, Sholom Aleichem created dozens of indelible characters. His Tevye the Milkman, Motl the Cantor’s Son, and Menachem Mendl–“shtetl Jews” for whom humor and pathos were two sides of the same Yiddish coin–remain invaluable windows into pre-war Eastern European Jewish life, real and imagined.’ -Jewishfilm.org

RSVP here

Contact Lisa B. Frankel, Director of Educational Outreach at lfrankel@huc.edu