THE WEEK AHEAD: 
Exhibit Opening: The Recovery of the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 
Opening Monday, October 12


We are proud to announce the opening of The Recovery of the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, an exhibit chronicling the epic legal battle by LAMOTH President Randy Schoenberg to recover Gustav Klimt's iconic "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" painting from the Austrian government on behalf of his client, Maria Altmann, who was Adele's niece. The case began in 1998, when 82-year-old Maria Altmann approached Randy, a young lawyer and grandson of her close friend, about trying to recover her family's art from Austria. Although Randy had no experience in art law and more experienced lawyers told Randy he had no chance of winning, he took on Maria's case, which ultimately went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Against all odds, a panel of arbitrators in Austria ruled in Maria's favor, ordering the Austrian government to return the paintings. In 2006 the paintings were returned to Maria's family. The famous Woman In Gold ("Adele Bloch-Bauer I") is now on permanent public display at the Neue Galerie in New York.

The exhibit at LAMOTH includes archival images of the Schoenberg and Altmann families and memorabilia related to the Supreme Court case, The Republic of Austria v. Altmann.

For more information about the exhibit, visit our website.
THE WEEK IN REFLECTION: 
3G at LAMOTH Genealogy Workshop
  
 
This week, 3G at LAMOTH welcomed sixty participants to a compelling genealogy workshop led by LAMOTH President Randy Schoenberg, who was introduced by 3G at LAMOTH Executive Board Member Guy Lipa and LAMOTH Executive Director Samara Hutman. Guy spoke of his desire to work on his family tree and uncover information he previously believed was lost in the Holocaust. Randy spoke about getting started researching family histories and the different tools available for families of Holocaust Survivors.

3G at LAMOTH is a community for grandchildren of Survivors who are helping to shape the future of Holocaust remembrance and education. To join the 3G at LAMOTH community, visit 3G at LAMOTH's Facebook page and web page or contact jordanna@lamoth.org
SPOTLIGHT:  
Our Visitors 

Our online reviews frequently remind us how profoundly people are affected by visiting LAMOTH, especially those who have the opportunity to meet a Survivor. We share excerpts from a recent Yelp review below:

"I was visiting my sister in Los Angeles and we decided to take a tour of the new Holocaust Museum. I was with my daughter as well and she had worked for Yad Vashem in Israel so this would be a very interesting tour...
 
When we got in they told us they had a speaker and we were just in time to hear her. She was a Holocaust survivor and told us her story. There were students in the room from a high school with their teacher.  It was so amazing to hear her story I couldn't hold back my tears. She spoke for at least an hour and then answered questions. If you ever have the chance to hear a survivor's story it's a honor.

The museum was small and intimate...It was founded by Holocaust survivors and runs on donations.  
 
They have a children's memorial in the back where you can write a note and put it in the wall. It's on the grounds of a park and it's quite beautiful." 
 
LAMOTH's Goldrich Family Foundation
Children's Memorial

You can read more Yelp reviews of LAMOTH here.
SPOTLIGHT:  
LAMOTH Seeking Blu-ray Player

Do you have an extra Blu-ray player you'd like to donate to the Museum? We are looking for a Blu-ray player to be used to screen films for LAMOTH, 3G at LAMOTH, and Righteous Conversations Project events. We will be happy to provide a tax receipt. If you are able to help, please contact michael@lamoth.org.
 
COMING UP: 
Taking the Stand: We Have More to Say
Sunday, October 18, at 1:30 pm

Bernhard Rammerstorfer
and Hermine Liska
Please join us on October 18 at 1:30 pm at LAMOTH  for a talk by Austrian author and award-winning filmmaker Bernhard Rammerstorfer  about his latest book and DVD entitled "TAKING THE STAND: We Have More to Say."  Mr. Rammerstorfer's talk will be followed by a screening of excerpts from the "Taking the Stand" DVD and interviews with two participants in the project, LAMOTH Board member RenĂ©e Firestone,  an Auschwitz survivor, and Hermine Liska,  who as a child of Austrian Jehovah's Witnesses, was taken from her parents and sent to a "reeducation center."

For more information, visit our website. RSVP to michael@lamoth.org.
COMING UP: 
The History of the Star of David
Sunday, October 18, at 3:00 pm

"History of the Star of David" includes an image of the original LAMOTH logo (in green in bottom row)
Join us on October 18 at Sinai Temple for an art exhibition and reception, "The History of the Star of David." Speakers will include LAMOTH Executive Director Samara Hutman, and there will be an opportunity to meet the artist, Marc Bennett. Bennett's work, donated by LAMOTH Board member Melinda Goldrich and the Goldrich Family Foundation, hangs in our atrium, welcoming visitors to LAMOTH, and we sell posters and cards displaying Bennett's art in the Museum book store.
 
To see the event flyer and to RSVP, click here.  

COMING UP: 
Remembering Terezin Artist & Teacher Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
Wednesday, October 14, at 7:00 pm

Friedl Dicker-Brandeis,
Self-Portrait in Automobile
, 1940


On Wednesday, October 14, LAMOTH will co-sponsor with UCLA Hillel a lecture by Dr. Linney Wix on Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, a  Bauhaus-educated artist who taught  in the Terezin concentration camp. Dr. Wix, a professor at the University of New Mexico, will  draw on excerpts from interviews she conducted with eleven Holocaust survivors who studied art with Friedl Dicker-Brandeis  in Terezin between 1942 and 1944. "

For more information and to RSVP, visit UCLA Hillel's  website
COMING UP: 
Book Signing with Simon Goodman 
Wednesday, October 21, at 7:00 pm

Join us at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, October 21, for celebration, conversation and book signing with Simon Goodman, author of The Orpheus Clock, the passionate, gripping, true story of one man's single-minded quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family, their beloved art collection, and to restore their legacy.
   
Please RSVP to michael@lamoth.org
COMING UP: 
Lunch & Learn: New Conversations on Holocaust Education with Deb Bowen 
Friday, October 23, at 12:00 pm

Thirteen years ago, Deb Bowen of Aledo, Illinois, was inspired by Holocaust Survivors to have young authors and illustrators preserve Survivor
narratives in storybook form. The project, "A BOOK by ME," has now expanded to over 90 different book titles created "by kids for kids."  Author Deb Bowen decided to share these "stories behind the stories," describing the relationships between the young authors and their subjects in her own book, "A Walk With Esther."  Join us as Deb Bowen shares how she started her project and the response of teachers as they use the books in the classroom. She will also discuss her effort to capture the stories of the last of the World War II generation.

Please RSVP to michael@lamoth.org
COMING UP: 
West Coast Premiere: The Man Who Mends Women 
Tuesday, November 3, at 7:00 pm
 

Please join the Righteous Conversations Project at LAMOTH on Tuesday, November 3, at 7:00 pm, for the West Coast premiere of  The Man Who Mends Women, the moving story of Dr. Denis Mukwege and his work at the landmark Panzi Hospital in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Winner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who not only repairs the bodies of tens of thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but works to restore their lives and address the root causes of violence in DRC.  A trailer for the film (with English subtitles) is available  here .
 
Doors open at 6:30 PM; screening will begin promptly at 7:00. Q&A with Philippe Cousteau Jr., Founder and President of Earth Echo International and the GlobalECHO Foundation, a grantmaker to Panzi Hospital and Foundations, will follow.

Admission is free but seating is limited and reservations are required. Click here for more information and here to reserve a seat. 
THE LEGACY OF WOMAN IN GOLD:  
LAMOTH's Annual Gala Dinner
Sunday, November 1, 2015  

Our eighth Annual Gala Dinner will be chaired by Shelley and Dr. Frank Litvack, last year's Legacy Leadership Award recipients. 

Dr. Frank Litvack, whose mother was a Holocaust survivor, spent nearly 20 years as a prominent interventional cardiologist at Cedars Sinai and Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He now concentrates on entrepreneurial activities in health care technology. 

Shelly Curtis Litvack, a television producer and director, is a six-time Emmy award winner for her work on shows including General Hospital, All My Children, and Days of Our Lives, and has been actively involved in many charitable organizations.

In their home in Los Angeles, Shelley and Frank have a cherished family heirloom: a bookcase that Frank's grandmother was able to bring with her when she came to Canada from Europe in the early days of communism. The bookcase miraculously weathered the war years, the confiscation of family property by the Nazis, and the advent of communism.  
 
Shelley and Frank Litvack with their children,
Will, Harry and Erika 

We invite you to join us at LAMOTH's 2015 Annual Gala Dinner. To reserve a seat, click here. To support the Museum and recognize our honorees in the Tribute Journal, click here.  
SURVIVOR SPEAKER: 
Bob Geminder
Sunday, October 11, at 2 :00 pm

Bob Geminder was born in Wroclaw, Poland in 1935. After the Germans invaded in 1939, his family was forced to move to Stanislawow, where they were among a few who survived a brutal massacre. Bob and his family spent the rest of the war hiding in different locations and concealing their Jewish identity. After the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1944, Bob and his family were put on a train to Auschwitz, but they managed to climb out the top of the cattle car. After the war, Bob settled in the United States, earning an engineering degree and later a masters degree in education.


Museum Hours:    
Saturday - Thursday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM  
Friday 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM   
Admission is always free.

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