WEEK IN REVIEW:
LAMOTH 2016 Annual Gala Dinner

L-R: LAMOTH President Beth Kean, Professor Deborah Lipstadt,
Denial  Producer Gary Foster, LAMOTH Vice President Andrea Cayton, LAMOTH Secretary Paulette Nessim, LAMOTH Treasurer Paul Nussbaum

Holocaust Survivors attend LAMOTH's Annual Gala

Thank you to everyone who made this year's Annual Gala Dinner celebrating 55 years of free Holocaust education a great success. Thank you to honoree Gary Foster, producer of  Denial,  to Professor Deborah Lipstadt for her compelling remarks and her fight against Holocaust denial, and to KTLA entertainment anchor Sam Rubin, who emceed the evening.  We were proud to pay tribute to Holocaust Survivor, philanthropist and champion of LAMOTH and Holocaust education, Jona Goldrich z''l, who passed away in June. Click here to read a tribute to Jona from the Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. We were particularly thrilled to host more than 50 Holocaust Survivors as our honored guests. 

Finally, we are grateful to our supporters, whose generosity allows us to sustain our founding Survivors' vision of providing free Holocaust education to students and the public.
TAKE ACTION:
Combat Intolerance by Supporting Free Holocaust Education 

Survivor Betty Cohen and LAMOTH Teen Ambassador Robert Lara

This past Sunday, LAMOTH celebrated 55 years of free Holocaust education at our Annual Gala Dinner. Two days later, an election season marked by widespread displays of intolerance came to a close. As LAMOTH President Beth Kean said on Sunday evening, through our mission of Holocaust education, we strive to "create a more just society and a more tolerant world." This sentiment was echoed later in the evening by LAMOTH Teen Ambassador Robert Lara, a participant in our Share Our Stories program and a student at Animo Ralph Bunche High School in South Los Angeles, who said that LAMOTH " helps students learn about tolerance and preventing hatred in this world" and that the Holocaust Survivors he met through LAMOTH " inspire us to spread their messages of hope, love, bravery, faith, and peace." You can help to combat bigotry and foster tolerance by supporting LAMOTH's free Holocaust education programs.
EXHIBIT OPENING:
Life in Theresienstadt

Survivor Eva Beckmann and Consul General of Czech Republic Pavol S epeľák

In partnership with the Consulate General of the Czech Republic, on Thursday LAMOTH hosted an evening of learning, reflection and dialogue on life in Theresienstadt. Speakers included Consul General of Czech Republic Pavol Sepeľák, LAMOTH Director of Archive, Library and Collections Dr. Vladimir Melamed, and Theresienstadt Survivor Eva Beckmann. The event marked the opening of two new art exhibits, " Behind the Ghetto Walls: Erich Lichtblau-Leskly" and " Moritz Mueller: Life in Theresienstadt Ghetto." 
WEEK IN REVIEW:
Child Survivors Annual Conference in Los Angeles  

LAMOTH Director of Education Jordanna Gessler speaks at Child Survivors conference 

This week we welcomed the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust & Descendants to Los Angeles for their annual conference. On Sunday, LAMOTH Director of Education Jordanna Gessler spoke about the future of Holocaust education, and on Monday, the group toured our galleries. Next year's conference will be in Paris.  
WEEK IN REVIEW:
LAMOTH Board Member & Docent Michele Gold at YULA Girls High School   


On Friday LAMOTH Board Member and Docent Michele Gold spoke to about 50 students at YULA Girls High School, including several students participating in the LAMOTH High School Fellowship program and one student who is a LAMOTH teen board member. Michele spoke about the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Kindertransport, and the experiences of her mother, who at age 15 was sent by her parents on a Kindertransport from Germany to the United Kingdom. A collection of postcards written by Michele's mother yearning for news of her parents is currently on exhibit at LAMOTH.
WEEK IN REVIEW:
L'Dough V'Dough with San Fernando Valley Students


Thursday was our first L'Dough V'Dough of the 2016-17 school year at Ilan Ramon Day School. Five Holocaust Survivors and 62 students from various San Fernando Valley schools gathered to braid and bake challah and learn about each individual's experience during the Holocaust. LAMOTH Docent and Survivor Speaker Harry Davids led the group in a discussion on the significance of the day, the 78th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. 

If you know a high school student in the Valley who may be interested in joining our next session in early December, please contact Creative Programs Director Rachel Fidler at rachel@lamoth.org. 
SUNDAY SURVIVOR SPEAKER SERIES:
Peter Epstein
Sunday, November 13 at 2:00 pm

Peter was born in Breslau, Germany in 1932. The following year, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, his family left the country and settled in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Even when war broke out in 1939, Peter enjoyed a normal childhood, but in May 1940 Nazi Germany invaded The Netherlands. Under Nazi occupation, his family was sent to Westerbork Transit Camp, and then to Bergen Belsen where they stayed for over a year. In 1945, in response to the allied military advance, the Nazi authorities sent them and other inmates out of the camp on a train, where they were finally liberated in the small town of Trobitz. Peter's father died after the war, and his family settled in Los Angeles in 1952.

A docent-led tour will follow the talk.
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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Friday 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Admission is always free.

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