On December 18 at LAMOTH, poet, memoirist, and essayist Carol Dine will read from and discuss her book, Orange Night, co-authored by artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak.  Inspired and accompanied by  Bak's affecting images, Dine's poems offer the reader an intimate confrontation  with history. In the words of National Book Award winner James Carroll, the work is  "...a fugue of echoes and melodies and afterimages all at the service of  a moving illumination of the human condition."  Carol has been a poet-in-resident at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ragdale,  and Virginia Center for the Arts. She currently teaches poetry at Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston, and her work appears in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. 

Seating is limited and RSVP is required to [email protected].

This week we welcomed 11th graders from  Tarbut V'Torah Community Day School  to the Museum. As part of their Holocaust education program, the students had an in-depth tour of the Museum's galleries and heard from Hungary native and Auschwitz survivor Eva Wartnik. Next week the TVT students will be participating in a one-week Righteous Conversations Project workshop at their school in Irvine. Click here to view the Public Service Announcements created by TVT students during last year's workshop.

This week we were pleased to welcome a group of 11th and 12th graders in the AVID ( Advancement Via Individual Determination) program at Oceanside High School.  The group toured the galleries and heard from Holocaust survivor Peter Daniels. The students are studying the Holocaust as part of their AVID seminar, and their teacher previously participated in LAMOTH's Highways to History program , which trains teachers in Holocaust education and is sponsored by the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego. Teachers interested in enrolling the Museum's next Highways to History program in February-March 2016 can find more information here.

Join us this Sunday at 2:00 pm for a talk by Holocaust Survivor Dr. Avraham Perlmutter. Dr. Perlmutter was born in Vienna in 1927. After Kristallnacht, his parents sent him and his sister on a Kindertransport to the Netherlands. The Germans followed, and he experienced harrowing captures, daring escapes, tortuous hiding and heartbreaking losses, but also the kindness of strangers. After the war, Dr. Perlmutter fought in Israel's War for Independence, and later moved to the United States, where he earned a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering. Dr. Perlmutter is the author of a memoir,  Determined , which is available for purchase at the LAMOTH book store.