This annual commemoration includes a testimony by Holocaust survivor Dr. Alfred Munzer, a candle-lighting ceremony, poetry readings and music. To View the Content, Copy and Paste the Link Below into Your Browser: https://youtu.be/T6S6rVVeODk?si=w7gLr5ff6oytzsus
Doron Ezickson of the Anti-Defamation League joins the Frank Islam Athenaeum Symposia series to discuss the roubling rise of anti-semitism in the world today, and how we can take action. This series is co-produced by the Bella Mischkinsky Annual Memorial Lecture Series.
World War / Attack Pacific/ Shores of Iwo Jima
People share their stories about famous events
This annual commemoration includes a testimony by Holocaust survivor Dr. Alfred Munzer, a candle-lighting ceremony, poetry readings and music. To View the Content, Copy and Paste the Link Below into Your Browser: https://youtu.be/T6S6rVVeODk?si=w7gLr5ff6oytzsus
Born in Vienna in 1928, Edith Mayer Cord moved to Italy with her family to escape the rise of Nazism in Austria. In 1938, Italy passed the same anti-Jewish laws, similar to the Nuremburg laws, and the entire family was asked to leave. Unable to receive a visa for any county, Edith and her family entered France illegally in April 1939 where they received political asylum.
People share their stories about famous events
Watch Dr. Myrna Goldenberg talk about the book "Before All Memory is Lost: Women's Voices from the Holocaust".
Mr. Henry Greenbaum was twelve when the Germans occupied his hometown in Poland. Over the next six years, he was forced to live in a ghetto, to perform slave labor and to live in concentration camps and was sent on a death march. He was finally liberated by the American Army in 1945, but had lost his mother and five of his eight siblings. He emigrated from Poland to the United States and built a new life in Montgomery County, Maryland.
This annual commemoration includes a testimony by Holocaust survivor Dr. Alfred Munzer, a candle-lighting ceremony, poetry readings and music. To View the Content, Copy and Paste the Link Below into Your Browser: https://youtu.be/T6S6rVVeODk?si=w7gLr5ff6oytzsus
“A Final Love Letter: the Frank Grunwald Collection”. Is a story from the Holocaust, a letter was found written by a woman who was killed in a concentration camp shortly after writing it. The letter was to her husband and ultimately her son Frank.