Are you interested in becoming a docent at LAMOTH? 

Our docent training program begins Thursday, September 29th for ten weeks. Prospective docents will meet at the Museum on Thursdays from September 29th-December 29th to learn about the galleries and Holocaust history from the Education Department and guest lecturers. 

For more information, click here.

The community is invited to join Etz Jacob Congregation for a Tisha B'Av service in the Goldrich Family Foundation Children's Memorial at LAMOTH at 9:30 pm this Saturday, August 13th. The service will be hosted by Rabbi Rubin Huttler with remarks by Holocaust Survivor Dorothy Greenstein. 

This week, in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, LAMOTH hosted two L'Dough V'Dough sessions with Holocaust Survivors and families from the community. One session was held at the Museum and the other at Valley Beth Shalom. As they braided challah together, families had the opportunity to engage with Survivors and learn about their experiences during the Holocaust. Challah was donated to the Israel Levin Senior Adult Center.

This week, Cassie Rodriguez and May Kim finished their internships at LAMOTH. Cassie, a sophomore at Princeton University, spent the summer working at the Museum as part of the Princeton Internships in Civil Service (PICS) program. She is majoring in classics, and her passion for history brought her to the Museum. May, a recent graduate of Bowdoin College, has volunteered extensively in the Los Angeles Holocaust Survivor community and her work at LAMOTH enabled her to engage more with this history. 

	Photo Credit: Bill Alkofer,  The OC Register

Gerda was twelve years old when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Soon after the war broke out, the Soviet Union invaded her family's city of Przemysl in Eastern Poland. Since her father was a businessman, the Communist regime branded him a danger to the state, which prompted her family to flee to Lwow, where they hid their identities. In June 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and Gerda's family spent a few months living in a ghetto. Eventually, her father arranged for her to hide with Polish families, which saved her from deportation to death camps. After the war, a British rabbi arranged for her and other war orphans to come to London, where she trained as a nurse. She moved to the United States in 1951, and raised her family in Long Beach, California.