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HAPPY THANKSGIVING
LAMOTH will close at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, November 23 and will be closed all day on Thursday, November 24.
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WEEK IN REVIEW:
LAMOTH 2016 Annual Gala Dinner
Denial Producer Gary Foster & Professor Deborah Lipstadt
Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we raised close to $1 million
at this year's
Annual Gala Dinner. Click
here to read an article about the Gala in this week's Jewish Journal.
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WEEK IN REVIEW:
LAMOTH Teen Board Launches PAIRS Project
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Teen Board member and Survivor mentor share family photos
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Last weekend, the LAMOTH Teen Board launched a new program
called PAIRS (Partnering Adolescents in Intergenerational Remembrance with Survivors). During the "
meet and greet," each teen and Survivor mentor shared an object or photo of personal significance and spoke about their background and family history. The teens and Survivor mentors will meet throughout the school year, and at the end of the year, each teen will create a temporary Museum exhibit sharing their reflections on the project.
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COMING UP:
Book Signing with Author Sarah Kaminsky
Sunday, December 4, at 2:00 pm
Left: photo by Beatrice Cruveiler
Join us Sunday, December 4, at 2:00 pm for a talk and book signing with author Sarah Kaminsky, whose book about her father, "Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life," is a bestseller in France. At the age of 17
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Adolfo Kaminsky narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz. Due to his expert knowledge of dyes and his ability to masterfully reproduce official documents with an artistic eye, he was recruited to join the Jewish underground. He soon became the primary forger for the Resistance in Paris, working tirelessly with his network to create papers that saved an estimated 14,000 men, women and children from certain death.
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NOW ON EXHIBIT:
In Search of Parents' Fate: Rita Rimalower's Postcards from Glasgow 1940-1942
LAMOTH is proud to exhibit a collection of postcards written during the war by the mother of LAMOTH Board Member and Docent Michele Gold.
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t age 15, Rita Rimalower was sent by her parents on a Kindertransport from Germany to the United Kingdom. She
was taken in by a family in Glasgow, Scotland and spent the war years in the United Kingdom.
Between July 1940 and April 1942, Rita sent approximately 40 postcards to her uncle and aunt in Zurich, Switzerland. Each postcard was addressed to her parents in the hope that her uncle and aunt would be able to reach them. The postcards tell a painful, heartbreaking story of separation and loss. After April of 1942, Rita never heard again from her parents, who likely perished in the Rzeszow Ghetto in Poland.
Click here for more information about the exhibit.
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WEEK IN REVIEW:
L'Dough V'Dough at Milken Community High School
Milken Community High School's L'Dough V'Dough club met this week with Holocaust Survivors Eva Wartnik and Tom Kovar to braid and bake challah. The student club meets every other month to
learn about different Survivors' experiences during the Holocaust.
If you would like to host a L'Dough V'Dough session at your school or synagogue, please contact Creative Programs Director Rachel Fidler at
rachel@lamoth.org
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SUNDAY SURVIVOR SPEAKER SERIES:
Ann Signett
Sunday, November 20 at 2:00 pm
Ann was born in Rome, Italy in 1928. In 1938, anti-Jewish laws were promulgated throughout Italy, which changed the course of everyday life for her family. The following year when the war broke out, the Italian government under Mussolini allied itself with Nazi Germany. Italy did not turn its Jewish population over to Nazi authorities, but when Mussolini's regime fell in 1943, Nazi Germany occupied th
e country. Italian Jews now faced deportation, and Ann's family quickly fled to the mountain town of Alvito. They spent several difficult months living there and concealing their Jewish identity. They were finally liberated by British troops, and after the war they returned to Rome. Ann married an American provost sergeant and settled in the United States in 1947.
A docent-led tour will follow the talk.
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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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Saturday - Thursday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Admission is always free.
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