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Where
Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, TN 37240
Contact
Danielle Kahane-KaminskyTennessee Holocaust Commission
615-343-2563
danielle.kahane-kaminsky@vanderbilt.edu
Dr. Lisa Peschel-University of York
Lost Theatrical Works of the Holocaust
Tuesday, September 13th-7:00 PM
Dr. Peschel is a lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television at the University of York. She researched theatrical performance in the World War II Jewish ghetto at Terezín (in German, Theresienstadt), completing and staging a play about the cultural life of the ghetto for an MFA degree in playwriting. During her doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota she spent several semesters in the Czech Republic, interviewing Terezín survivors and searching for previous unpublished scripts. In 2008 her annotated volume of plays and cabarets from the ghetto was published in Czech and German; in 2009 she completed a PhD thesis on survivor testimony about theatrical performance in the ghetto.
Rachel Chojnacki, Esther Remer, and Evan Remer-Survivor, Daughter of Survivor, & Grandchild of Survivor
3 Generations of Memory
Thursday, October 6th-7:00 PM
Rachel Chojnacki is a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. She recalled, “I could speak German and I could work, my eyes were good, I made little tiny parts for the ammunition, we had to make 7,000 per day to make the quota.” Rachel was nervous when munitions factory supervisors came by, and credits her eye for perfection with saving her life. Rachel will tell her story of survival along with her daughter and grandson. They will speak about the impact the Holocaust has had on their family.To learn more about Rachel's story click the button.
Movie
My Mother's Courage (1995)
Monday, October 10th-7:00 PM
The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it.
Father Patrick Desbois- Holocaust By Bullets
Tuesday, October 25th-7:00 PM at Vanderbilt Langford Auditorium
Father Patrick Desbois is A Catholic priest and author of “The Holocaust by Bullets.” Father Desbois 
has devoted his life to researching the Holocaust, fighting antisemitism and improving Christian-Jewish relations.
To view his story on 60 Minutes click the image below:
Play
A Shayna Maidel
November 4th- 6th & November 10th-12th -7:00 PM at The VU Theatre
A powerful and deeply affecting portrait of a family in the aftermath of the Holocaust: two sisters, one a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, the other brought up as an American, meet in 1946 after a separation of almost 20 years.
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