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LAMOTH 2016 Annual Gala Dinner
Sunday, November 6
Only two weeks until our Annual Gala Dinner honoring producer Gary Fisher and his important film Denial, with
a loving tribute to Holocaust Survivor Jona Goldrich z"l,
whose philanthropy and commitment to creating a memorial and educational space in Los Angeles helped make LAMOTH possible.
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EXHIBIT OPENING
Behind the Ghetto Walls: Erich Lichtblau-Leskly
Opens Monday, October 24
Erich Lichtblau-Leskly was born in 1911 in what is now the Czech Republic. With the invasion of Nazi Germany and beginning of the Holocaust, Erich and his wife Else were deported to Theresienstadt. Erich, an artist and commercial designer by training, found inspiration and courage to produce satirical, mocking art work that depicted everyday life in Theresienstadt. When the Nazis began searching for drawings and deporting artists to Auschwitz, Erich removed the incriminating captions and divided every pictorial narrative into several fragments. Else managed to save the fragments and conceal them between the wooden boards in her barrack. Decades later, Erich replicated the ghetto-period watercolors in a large placard-size format. LAMOTH's exhibit showcases Erich Lichtblau-Leskly's original watercolors next to his recreated artwork. Click here for more information about the exhibit.
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Share Our Stories: Reflections Through Art
Through October 31
Our
"Share Our Stories: Reflections Through Art" exhibit showcases art created by students in the Museum's Share Our Stories Project.
The project connects students from under-resourced schools with Holocaust Survivors for conversation, learning, and exploration through art. This year's show includes mixed media canvases, plexiglass discs, and "shoe art" created by students at Animo Ralph Bunche Charter High School in South Los Angeles, Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy, and Prairie Vista Middle School in Hawthorne.
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Holocaust Education Institute for Teachers at LAMOTH
Friday, October 28 at 8:30 am
The first session of the Holocaust Education Institute for teachers will be held at LAMOTH on Friday, October 28, from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. The Institute brings together museum-based resources, curricula, pedagogical expertise, and dynamic presenters through three full-day sessions. Participants will tour the Museum, hear from Holocaust Survivors and learn about LAMOTH's innovative educational programs.
The Holocaust Education Institute is a collaborative project of LAMOTH, the ADL, Museum of Tolerance, USC Shoah Foundation, and Yad Vashem.
Limited stipends are available. Click
here for more information and
here to register.
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LAMOTH at Crossroads School's Days of Service
This week LAMOTH participated in Crossroads School for the Arts & Sciences' annual Days of Service. Crossroads students heard from three Holocaust Survivor speakers and then reflected creatively by building a memory quilt based on themes from the Survivors' experiences.
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Professor An
na
Hájková
Speaks About Social History of Terezin
Thursday, November 10 at 6:30 pm
| Smuggling Flowers Into the Ghetto, by Erich Lichtblau-Leskly |
Join us on November 10 at 6:30 pm as Dr. Anna Hájková gives a talk on the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp.
Dr. Hájková received her PhD from the University of Toronto and is an assistant professor at the University of Warwick. Her work examines the social history and everyday life of prisoners in Theresienstadt. Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is especially proud to welcome her in conjunction with the opening of its exhibition of work created by Erich Lichtblau-Leskly, a prisoner of Theresienstadt. The original work is composed of the preserved fragments of Leskly's artwork from Theresienstadt, juxtaposed with their later Israeli period replicas. His satirical sketches draw on humor, demonstrating both his intellectual and spiritual resistance.
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SUNDAY SURVIVOR SPEAKER SERIES
Frida Berger
Sunday, October 23 at 2:00 pm
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photo by David Miller, Jewish Journal
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Frida Berger (nee Isac) was born in Comlausa, Romania, an area that was under Hungarian rule during World War II. After finishing secondary school, Frida worked as a caregiver and started a textile business. When Nazi Germany invaded Hungary in 1944, Frida and her eight siblings were forcibly relocated to the Sevlus Ghetto. Frida, 19 years old, was charged with procuring food for the 16 people who shared her room. When Sevlus was liquidated, Frida was transported by cattle car to Auschwitz. Later that year Frida and her only surviving sister were transported to Bergen-Belsen and then to Salzwedel, where she was forced to work in a munitions factory. Frida and her sister were liberated by American troops in April of 1945. Together with her sister, Frida cooked for their double wedding in 1947 in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. The Bergers traveled to Belgium and Montreal before settling in Los Angeles in 1966.
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With gratitude to the Joseph Drown Foundation for its generous support of free Holocaust education and school tours, and to
the Max H. Gluck Foundation for its generous support of the Share Our Stories Project.
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