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THE WEEK AHEAD:
3G at LAMOTH Genealogy Workshop
Wednesday, October 7, a
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Join 3G at LAMOTH on Wednesday, October 7, at 7:00 pm, for a
genealogy
workshop with LAMOTH President Randy Schoenberg, Jewish
genealogy
expert and Geni.com volunteer
curator. Randy will talk about getting started researching one's family history, with a focus on families of Holocaust Survivors. The event is free. For more information or to RSVP, email
[email protected].
3G at LAMOTH is a community for grandchildren of Survivors who are helping to shape the future of Holocaust remembrance and education. For more information, visit our website.
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SPOTLIGHT:
Into the Light: The Healing Art of Kalman Aron
Extended until October 18
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Kalman Aron, Morning Light in L.A.
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Two more weeks to see the
spectacular work of Kalman Aron at LAMOTH.
Born in Riga, Latvia in 1924,
Kalman
Aron was a child prodigy who at age thirteen was commissioned to paint the official
portrait
of the Latvian President. Aron's life was turned upside down in 1941, when the Germans invaded Latvia and he was deported to a concentration camp. Aron settled in Los Angeles after the war and had a long, successful career. He began as a
portrait
painter and later became known for his vibrant landscapes and intriguing studies of people in his unique style, "psychological realism."
For more information about INTO THE LIGHT: The Healing Art of Kalman Aron, visit our website.
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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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COMING UP:
The History of the Star of David
Sunday, October 18, at 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 our atrium, welcoming visitors to LAMOTH, and we sell 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 (in green in bottom row) |
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COMING UP:
Remembering Terezin Artist & Teacher Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
Wednesday, October 14, at 7:00 pm
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Friedl Dicker-Brandeis,
Self-Portrait in Automobile, 1940
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On Wednesday, October 14, UCLA Hillel will present 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.
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For more information and to RSVP, visit UCLA Hillel's
website.
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COMING UP:
Book Signing with Simon Goodman
Wednesday, October 21, at 7:00 pm
Join us at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, October 11, 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.
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THE LEGAGY OF WOMAN IN GOLD:
LAMOTH's Annual Gala Dinner
At our Annual Gala Dinner, Stacey Janks Jasper, Milken Community High School Social Science teacher, will receive the LAMOTH Righteous Conversations Award. Stacey was an early advocate for the Museum's innovative Holocaust remembrance programming, introducing Los Angeles area students to LAMOTH's Righteous Conversations Project, providing them with opportunities to carry on the work of Holocaust remembrance and to speak up about injustice in the world around them through film and new media. Stacey also has brought together students and Holocaust survivors through LAMOTH's L'Dough V'Dough program, in which students and survivors braid and bake challah together, sharing personal narratives and life stories, one generation to the next. Stacey's work is inspired by her family's commitment to the Jewish community and the legacy of her husband's grandparents, who were Holocaust Survivors.
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| Stacey Janks Jasper (left) with students during L'Dough V'Dough challah-baking event |
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SURVIVOR SPEAKER:
Tomas Kovar
Sunday, October 4, at 2
:00 pm
"I like to speak about my experience during the Holocaust, because I believe that we need to make sure that people hear firsthand from Survivors." Tomas Kovar, born in Slovakia in 1936, will speak at LAMOTH this Sunday, October 4, about his experiences during the Holocaust. Tomas' family was one of only three families from his home town of Zabokreky nad Nitrou that survived. Join us in learning about how his father's quick thinking and occupation as a farmer coupled with his mother's determination and courage kept the family alive during the Holocaust.
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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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