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1st Annual LAMOTH Holocaust Remembrance Film Series
Coming Next:
Schindler's List (1993)
Thursday, July 28th
2:30pm: Afternoon Screening
6:30pm-7:30pm: Q&A with Michael Berenbaum, PhD and
Holli Levitsky, PhD
8:00pm: Evening Screening
LAMOTH continues its first annual Holocaust Remembrance Film Series this Thursday with two screenings of Steven Spielberg's
Schindler's List. This film chronicles the career of Oskar Schindler, an entrepreneur who established a factory in Nazi-Occupied Poland. Throughout the war, he saved the lives of thousands of Jews by allowing them to work in his factory, sparing them deportation to death camps. Yad Vashem awarded Schindler the title "Righteous Among the Nations" in 1962.
Spielberg used the film's proceeds to establish the Shoah Foundation, which has since compiled more than 52,000 video testimonies from Holocaust Survivors.
Videos from the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive can be viewed at LAMOTH, and are screened daily on the Tree of Testimony.
Please note that the afternoon screening of
Schindler's List will be held at 2:30pm.
Each film will be screened once in the afternoon and once in the evening, with a Q&A in between showings. The afternoon screenings and Q&A sessions will be held in LAMOTH's library, and the evening screenings will take place in the outdoor Goldrich Family Foundation Children's Memorial.
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Austrian Holocaust Memorial Ambassador
Austrian Holocaust Memorial Ambassador Hannes Breitenlechner is completing his volunteer year at LAMOTH this week. In lieu of military service, Austrian Holocaust Memorial Ambassadors volunteer abroad in Holocaust memorial organizations for one year. Throughout the last year, Hannes worked extensively to enhance the Museum audio guides and improved the overall quality of the AV experience for Museum visitors.
LAMOTH Executive Director Samara Hutman reflected, "Hannes will leave an enduring imprint not only on our work, but on the soul of our community. His professionalism, dedication and work ethic were exceptional, but even more, his kindness and dignity around this work was defining. He will be missed and fondly remembered."
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Central City Neighborhood Partners at LAMOTH
LAMOTH hosted 60 students from Central City Neighborhood Partners, a non-profit organization that partners youth groups with educational institutions. After a customized tour of the Museum, the students listened to Tomas Kovar share his experiences of survival during the Holocaust. Tomas was born in Slovakia and spent the war years in hiding with his family.
To learn more about Central City Neighborhood Partners, click here.
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Jewish Genealogy Workshop
This week, LAMOTH concluded its first Jewish genealogy workshop, a unique opportunity for Museum members. The workshop was conducted by Randy Schoenberg, immediate past president of the LAMOTH Board, expert genealogist and renowned attorney. The participants had an opportunity to learn through eight sessions of instruction the best methods of family history research.
Anna Paikow, one of the workshop's participants, remarked that learning about her family's past in depth was a way to honor her parents. Almost her entire family perished in the Holocaust, and she described the process of discovering information about these relatives she never knew as "bringing a new light into my life."
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Righteous Conversations Project
The Righteous Conversations Project concluded its sixth annual PSA workshop at Harvard-Westlake School. Students from across Los Angeles
ranging from grades 7-12 participated in the workshop. The students engaged and collaborated with Holocaust Survivor Mentors and RC fimmaker mentors to create PSAs on racial prejudice, Islamophobia, preferred gender pronouns and education outside the classroom.
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Sunday Survivor Speaker Series
This Weekend: Erika Fabian
Sunday, July 24th, at 2:00pm
Erika was born in Budapest, Hungary. When she was three years old, the Hungarian regime, then an ally of Nazi Germany, recruited her father into forced labor. The following year, Nazi Germany invaded its ally Hungary. Erika's mother managed to secure false papers for her family, and they lived under Christian identities in Budapest for the rest of the war. Erika only learned that she was Jewish after the war. Erika left Hungary in 1956, and she developed a career in theater and photography. She is a world traveler and still writes plays and novels.
A docent-led tour of the Museum will immediately follow.
Upcoming Sunday Survivor Speakers:
July 31: Elane Geller
August 7: Dr. Michael Gyepes
August 14: Gerda Seifer
August 21:
Survivors and What They Carry: Special Dialogue
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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, and to the Joseph Drown Foundation for their generous support of free Holocaust education and school tours.
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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Saturday - Thursday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Admission is always free.
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