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NEXT WEEKEND:
LAMOTH 2016 Annual Gala Dinner
Sunday, November 6
Jona Goldrich with his daughters Melinda Goldrich and Andrea Cayton
Only one more week until our
Annual Gala Dinner honoring producer Gary Foster and his important film
Denial
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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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ON EXHIBIT:
Behind the Ghetto Walls: Erich Lichtblau-Leskly
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. The exhibit is drawn from LAMOTH's Erich Lichtblau-Leskly Theresienstadt Collection, which is the largest collection of the artist's work. Click
here for more information about the exhibit.
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Professor An
na
Hájková
Speaks About Social History of Terezin
Thursday, November 10 at 6:30 pm
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.
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CLOSING SOON:
Share Our Stories: Reflections Through Art
Through October 31
| L: photo by LAMOTH; R: photo by Irfan Khan/LA Times |
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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LAMOTH Hosts Holocaust Education Institute for Teachers
LAMOTH hosted 32 teachers from schools across Los Angeles County for the first session of the Holocaust Education Institute. The teachers engaged in an Object Share, toured the Museum, heard from Holocaust Survivors and learned about LAMOTH's innovative educational programs and teacher guides.
One teacher reflected, "Thank you for an informative and meaningful day that will continue to shape my teaching and thinking well beyond today."
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 for future sessions.
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Holocaust Survivor Speaks at Wilshire Boulevard Temple Religious School
Holocaust Survivor Yona Nadelman spoke to a seventh grade class at Wilshire Boulevard Temple Religious School. Yona was a five-year-old girl in Poland when World War II broke out. Separated from her parents, she looked after her younger cousin and survived in several different locations throughout Eastern Europe. This was an especially meaningful talk, as Yona's grandson was one of the students. He introduced his grandmother and discussed how proud he was to have the opportunity for his friends to hear her life story.
If you're interested in having your synagogue partner with LAMOTH, please contact Director of Education Jordanna Gessler at
Jordanna@lamoth.org.
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FOR EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS:
Join a Global Online Game on the Future of Empathy
November 13-14
Join Facing History and Ourselves as it hosts an online, global conversation about the future of empathy. On
November 13-14, Facing History will launch a global online game, Face the Future
, that will allow students, educators, and community members to imagine what a better future might look like in 2016. Players will be encouraged to challenge each other to radically reimagine the future of empathy and civic participation, as well as build meaningful conversations together about what the future might provide for us all.
For more information, including registration and an Educator Toolkit, visit the
Face the Future game website
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SUNDAY SURVIVOR SPEAKER SERIES:
Dorothy Greenstein
Sunday, October 30 at 2:00 pm
Dorothy Greenstein was born in Otwock, Poland in 1930. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Otwock's Jews were confined to a ghetto, where Dorothy lived with her family for three years. Upon learning that the Nazis were going to liquidate the Ghetto, Dorothy's father told her to escape. She hid in private homes and farms throughout Poland, until she eventually obtained false identification papers. She then spent the rest of the war working as a mother's helper in Warsaw and Krakow. She was liberated in 1945 by Soviet troops. After reuniting with her sister, they left Poland for Germany and then Canada, where she met and married her husband. Dorothy settled in Los Angeles in 1963 with her family where she worked as a teacher. She speaks regularly about her experiences in the Holocaust.
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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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Friday 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Admission is always free.
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