SUMMER EXHIBITS AT LAMOTH

Radom, Los Angeles , a photo series by Jamie Feiler, reflects on the life experiences of her grandmother, Helen Freeman, an Auschwitz Survivor. 

Jamie states that her "grandmother's life connects two seemingly disparate cities...[and] between these two points, she went through Auschwitz." It is this narrative that Jamie explores in her photographs, in order to represent the distant and complex relationship that the viewer, as well as the photographer, has to the Holocaust. 


More information about the exhibit can be found here .




Portraits in Black and White: Survivors and What They Carry has returned to LAMOTH for an encore exhibition. Barbara Mack's powerful portraits of Holocaust Survivors traveled last month to Washington D.C. where it was exhibited at the Russell Senate Rotunda for the Annual Days of Remembrance, and to Sacramento for the California State Legislature's Holocaust Memorial Project.  

More information about this exhibit can be found on the LAMOTH website.
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Share Our Stories at LAMOTH



As part of LAMOTH's Share Our Stories Project, t he 8th graders of Prairie Vista Middle School in Hawthorne visited LAMOTH for a tour of the Museum galleries and listened to Holocaust Survivor Betty Cohen (pictured above). Last week, the 8th graders met with Museum staff and Holocaust Survivors at their school for an Object Share in preparation for their visit to the Museum. 
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LAMOTH Welcomes the Klein Family 


This week LAMOTH welcomed the family of Anne Klein, whose portrait is part of the exhibit Survivors and What They Carry: Portraits in Black & White. The photograph shows Anne, who passed away in January, holding her mother's mortar and pestle, which are currently on loan to LAMOTH.
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LAMOTH Congratulates Adam Yaron 

LAMOTH is excited to share that Righteous Conversations Project Student Filmmaker and Musician Adam Yaron was featured as an Outstanding Senior in the Jewish Journal Graduation Edition. Adam participated in the first Righteous Conversations PSA Workshop at Harvard-Westlake in 2011, creating the PSA "Learn the Difference" about ethical consumerism. Adam also worked with Righteous Conversations in Summer 2015 to produce original music scores for RC PSAs. 

This year, Adam sang "Mishehu" at the LAMOTH 24th Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration Ceremony (pictured).

The full Jewish Journal article is available here .  
SURVIVOR SPEAKER SERIES
Harry Davids
Sunday, June 19th, at 2:00pm 
photo by Paul Ryan

Harry Davids was born in 1942 in Nazi-occupied Holland. Soon after his birth, his parents gave him to the Dutch Resistance to be hidden. He spent the first few years of his life living with a Protestant family in a small Dutch town. After the war, his uncle, who was living in South Africa, found him and successfully fought a legal battle to gain custody of Harry. It was while he was growing up with his "new family" in South Africa that he began to learn some of the details about his past. Harry has spent his whole life tracing his family history and unraveling the mystery of his parents he never knew. He is an active docent and participant in LAMOTH's educational programs.

You can see artifacts reflecting Harry's experiences in our weekly Survivor Speaker micro-exhibit, located near the front desk.

A docent-led tour of the Museum will immediately follow.
Seed funding for The Righteous Conversations Project provided by The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Cutting Edge Grant. Nurturing support provided by Righteous Persons Foundation, Erwin Rautenberg Foundation and The Ross Family Foundation.

With gratitude to the Max H. Gluck Foundation for their generous support of Share Our Stories.

The Righteous Conversations Project at LAMOTH is proud to be named one of North America's top 50 innovative Jewish organizations in the 11th annual Slingshot Guide, a go-to resource for inspiring and innovative opportunities and projects. 
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Friday 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Admission is always free.

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