1st Annual LAMOTH Holocaust Remembrance Film Series

Coming Next:  Genocide (1981)
Thursday, August 4th

4pm: Afternoon Screening
6:30pm-7:30pm: Q&A with Arnold Schwartzman
8pm: Evening Screening
 
 
LAMOTH continues its first annual Holocaust Remembrance Film Series this Thursday with two screenings of the documentary film Genocide (1981). Directed by Arnold Schwartzman and narrated by Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor, this film shows a trajectory of European Jewish life from the nineteenth century through the Holocaust.  

Director Arnold Schwartzman is a world-renowned designer, author and filmmaker. He designed LAMOTH's  Community Wall, which was inspired by the Pinkas Memorial Wall at the Jewish Museum in Prague. 





Join us for the rest of the Film Series!


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. 

Please contact Michael Morgenstern  with questions and to RSVP. 

Camp Gan Israel of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills

This week,  Camp Gan Israel of Los Angeles & Beverly Hills brought  students  to the Museum. After touring the galleries, they listened to Michele Rodri share her experiences of survival during the Holocaust. Michele was born in Paris, France and hid in a convent during the war. The campers asked several questions and were interested to learn how she and her family lived after liberation. 
Camp Taconic

Camp Taconic, based in Hinsdale, Massachusetts, conducted its fourth annual summer visit to LAMOTH this week. 80 students toured the Museum galleries and listened to Holocaust Survivor Peter Daniels. Many of them had never heard a Holocaust Survivor speak. One student reflected that he had read a lot about the Holocaust, but meeting a Survivor was a special experience that he will always remember. Another student relayed that of all their experiences in Los Angeles, this was the most meaningful.  
Sunday Survivor Speaker Series

This Weekend: Phil Raucher
Sunday, July 31st, at 2:00pm  

Phil was born in 1927 in Czeladz, Poland. Aware of impending danger, Phil's parents sent him and his brother to relatives in Wolbrom, Poland. After the outbreak of war in September 1939, Phil traveled back to Czeladz where he was soon confined to a ghetto. He was deported to Germany, and spent the rest of the war laboring in subcamps of Gross-Rosen. After liberation, he returned to Poland and reunited with his sister and uncle. They illegally crossed the border into Munich, and in 1950, Phil settled in the United States. Phil actively participates in LAMOTH educational programs.

You can see artifacts from Phil's early life in our weekly Survivor Speaker micro-exhibit, located by the front desk.

A docent-led tour of the Museum will immediately follow.

Upcoming Sunday Survivor Speakers:
August 7: Dr. Michael Gyepes
August 14: Gerda Seifer
August 21:  Survivors and What They Carry: Special Dialogue
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. 
Museum Hours:
Saturday - Thursday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM  
Friday 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Admission is always free.

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust | www.lamoth.org 
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