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THE WEEK IN REFLECTION:
Righteous Conversations Project at Santa Monica High School
This month the Righteous Conversations Project launched a pilot program at Santa Monica High School. In collaboration with the nonprofit Virginia Avenue Project, the school's Introduction to Drama class will spend the semester creating plays and short films inspired by the students' sessions with Holocaust Survivors and LAMOTH staff. Last week, Survivors Eva Brettler, Betty Cohen, Harry Davids and Michele Rodri shared their life stories with students and participated in an object share, in which Survivors and students shared photos or other objects with personal significance.
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Survivor Michele Rodri with students
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COMING UP:
The History of the Star of David
Sunday, October 18, a
t 3:00 pm
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, hangs in the Museum's atrium, welcoming visitors. In addition, we are selling posters and cards displaying Bennett's art in the Museum book store (see photo below).
To see the event flyer, click
here
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"History of the Star of David" includes an
image of the original LAMOTH logo,
seen in green in the bottom row
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COMING UP:
Taking the Stand: We Have More to Say
Sunday, October 18, at 1:30 pm
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Bernhard Rammerstorfer
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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 Renée 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."
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THE LEGAGY OF WOMAN IN GOLD:
LAMOTH's Annual Gala Dinner
Our eighth Annual Gala Dinner will focus on the film Woman In Gold, the poignant story of LAMOTH President Randy Schoenberg's legal battle on behalf of Maria Altmann to recover a painting of Maria's aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, that was looted by the Nazis.
Randy's legal victory made possible his generous contribution to the building of LAMOTH's permanent home in Pan Pacific Park in 2010. The Museum was founded in 1961 by Holocaust survivors as a place to keep precious artifacts and provide free education to the public, especially students. Until 2010, LAMOTH was housed in office space at the Jewish Federation building and elsewhere, where it served about 14,000 visitors annually. Moving to our permanent home has allowed LAMOTH to dramatically increase the number of visitors we educate. In the first year in our permanent building, 26,000 visitors visited LAMOTH. That number has increased every year, with more than 40,000 people visiting the Museum last year.
The Museum was designed by Hagy Belzberg of Belzberg Architects. It has earned many prestigious architectural awards, including American Institute of Architects Honor Awards for Architecture, a Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission Architecture Award, and the U.S. Green Building Council LEED Gold Award.
The Museum's subterranean design integrates the building into the surrounding park landscape. Upon entering the Museum, visitors experience the transition from a playful public park atmosphere to a series of isolated spaces saturated with photographic archival imagery. As visitors descend to subsequent rooms, the lighting dims and the space becomes more confined as one moves toward the room devoted to concentration camps. The journey from this point forward is one of ascension and finding the comfort of familiar space as floor levels begin to rise and natural light begins to penetrate the interior once again. As they exit the Museum, visitors regain visual and auditory connections with the park environs.
We invite you to join us at our Annual Gala Dinner as we honor Randy for his tireless support and visionary leadership of LAMOTH. For more information, click
here.
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SURVIVOR SPEAKER:
Peter Daniels
Sunday, September 20, at 2
:00 pm
This Sunday at 2:00 pm, Peter
Daniels, who was born in Berlin in 1936, will talk about his experiences as a child during the Holocaust, including his imprisonment in Theresienstadt.
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The Righteous Conversations Project is made possible through generous support from the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, the Righteous Persons Foundation, The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation, and The Michael & Irene Ross Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
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Saturday - Thursday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Admission is always free.
100 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90036 | 323.651.3704
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