The Holocaust Memorial - Education Week October 26

The Second Annual
Holocaust
Education Week...............

October 26 - November 9th, 2003

"WHOEVER SAVES A SINGLE SOUL, IT IS AS IF HE SAVED THE WHOLE WORLD" "WHOEVER SAVES A SINGLE SOUL, IT IS AS IF HE SAVED THE WHOTHE TALMUD

You are invited to a special week of programs on:

"Rescure, Resistance and Heroism
During the Holocaust:
"Common People, Uncommon Courage"

Presented By:

The Holocaust Memorial-Miami Beach

The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at UM

The Dave and Mary Alper JCC of Kendall/Miami Jewish Book Fair

The Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at FIU

Simon Wiesenthal Center/South East Region

MDC: Florida Center for the Literary Arts "One Book, One Community"


Sunday, October 26, 2003 at 7:30 pm FIU Biscayne Bay Campus Wolfe University Center, Room 244 A 3000 NE 151st Street, North Miami

Joshua Green: "Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor"
William Denson was thirty-two years old when the army took him from his teaching position at West Point and told him to head up one of history’s largest legal enterprises as the chief prosecutor for the Dachau Trials. This evening’s lecture will explore this largely unknown event in the Post-Holocaust period and the story of the chief prosecutor. Between November 1945 and August 1948, the United States army prosecuted Nazi concentration camp administrators arrested in the American zone. The trials of 1,600 guards, officers, doctors, kapos, and other war criminals took place on the grounds of the Dachau camp and were all but ignored by the world press, who focused only on the Nuremberg Trials. An engaging lecture on a little known fascinating event.

This lecture is sponsored by the Institute for Judaic & Near East Studies at Florida International University (FIU) - Dr. Oren Stier, Assoc. Director
Information: 305-348-1914 Free and Open to the Public


Tuesday, October 28th, 2003 at 7:30 pm Holocaust Memorial 1933-1945 Meridian Avenue, Miami Beach

"Night" Under the Stars
Come join us for a beautiful evening at the Holocaust Memorial to discuss the memoir "Night" written by Nobel Prize Laureate, Holocaust Survivor, Eli Wiesel. The evening will consist of commentary, group discussion and an exchange of ideas on the book "Night" and the Nazi Holocaust of 1933-1945. Discussion will be facilitated by Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff, Education Director, Holocaust Memorial.

This program is sponsored by the MDC: Florida Center for the Literary Arts "One Book, One Community" - Dr. Roselyn Pirson, Director
Information: 305-538-1663 Free and Open to the Public


Wednesday, October 29th, 2003 at 7:30 pm Temple Emanu El of Greater Miami 1700 Washington Ave, Miami Beach

Dr. Michael Berenbaum: "Spiritual Resistance During the Holocaust"
Armed resistance was not the first instinct of Jewish leaders or of ordinary Jews. They sought clarification and compromise, to plead, to bribe, to amend, to spiritually defy their masters, to seek religious solace, to work out some form of accommodation; in short, to survive. It took courage, enormous courage, for fathers to stay with their families, for mothers to comfort their children, for teachers to teach in the ghetto and for rabbis and ordinary Jews to maintain their faith. Courage took many forms, and defiance and resistance underwent many stages before it led to armed resistance. This talk will examine the many forms of spiritual resistance and its final form in armed resistance.

This program is sponsored by the Institute for Judaic & Near East Studies at FIU, MDC/Florida Center for Literary Arts, Temple Emanu El of Greater Miami.
Information: 305-538-1663 Free and Open to the Public


Thursday, October 30th, 2003 at 8:00 pm Miller Center in Merrick Building 5202 University Dr., Coral Gables

Peter Z. Malkin: "The Argentina Journal: The Israeli Secret Agent
Who Captured Nazi War Criminal Adolph Eichmann Through His Art"
Mr. Malkin recounts his life as an artist and an agent of the Israeli Mossad. Dispatched by the famous Mossad Chief Issar Harel, Malkin was a member of the team that captured Adolph Eichmann, the Nazi ‘architect’ of the destruction of the European Jews during the Holocaust.

This lecture is sponsored by the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Judaic Studies UM and as part of The Miami Jewish Book Fair / Dave and Mary Alper JCC.
Refreshments and book signing General Admission $ 5 / Reserved $ 10


Friday, October 31 , 2003 at 1:00 pm Dave & Mary Alper JCC – Bldg 4 11155 SW 112 Ave, Miami

Alexandra Zapruder: "Salvaged Pages: Diaries of the Holocaust"
A former researcher for the United States Holocaust Museum, Ms. Zapruder will speak and make commentary on the important collection she has researched of Holocaust diaries. The diaries feature voices of fourteen young people who were in concentration camps or in hiding. Alexandra Zapruder has won national fame as a speaker and recently won the National Jewish Book Award for her book, "Salvaged Pages: Diaries of the Holocaust."

This program is part of the Teachers Workshop on Holocaust Education facilitated by Dr. Anita Meyer Meinbach, M-DCPS Teacher of the Year 2003, and Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff, Education Specialist/M-DCPS. This program is sponsored by the Dave and Mary Alper JCC.
Information call 305-271-9000 ext. 268. Free and Open to the Public


Thursday, November 6, 2003 at 7:30 pm Temple Emanu-El of Greater Miami 1700 Washington Ave. Miami Beach

The Powerful Film — "Displaced! Miracle at St. Ottilien"
They survived the war but afterward many of the displaced European Jewish refugees were quickly forgotten by the victorious Allies. One such group was housed at an ancient Benedictine monastery in Germany, in conditions of illness, starvation and misery that often equaled the concentration camps themselves. Disturbed by what they saw, Bob Hilliard and Edward Herman, two 19-year-old American Jewish Army privates, set out to improve the survivors’ abysmal living conditions. They managed to capture the ear of the American media, the public in general, and, remarkably, President Harry Truman himself who led to a startling improvement in the lives of the refugees. A true life thriller, Displaced! Miracle at St. Ottillien is that rare movie that restores one’s faith in the goodness of man.

This program is sponsored by The Survivors of St.Ottilien and Temple Emanu El of Greater Miami
Information: 305-538-1663 Free and Open to the Public


Sunday, November 9th, 2003 at 6:00 pm Temple Beth Sholom 4144 Chase Avenue Miami Beach

"Kristallnacht—The Night of Broken Glass"
The Holocaust did not occur suddenly and without warning. Rather, it was the culmination of a series of actions that should have alerted the world to the rise of a new kind of ideology and a brutal regime that would unleash state organized and nation-wide pogroms. On November 9-10, 1938, hundreds of synagogues, businesses and other properties owned by Jews in Germany and Austria were vandalized, looted and burned down. Jewish cemeteries were desecrated and thousands of Jewish men were arrested. "Kristallnacht “The Night of Broken Glass," was the prelude to what shortly became a state-sponsored persecution and murder of more than six million Jewish men, women and children throughout Europe. During these years, few individuals or organizations within the United States and the world even protested these terrible crimes.

Please join us for a unique gathering at Temple Beth Sholom on Miami Beach for a special program to commemorate that fateful night. In light of the recent rise of anti-Semitism around the world, it is our duty and our obligation to learn the lessons of past history. Please join us afterwards for a concert program which will follow. See details below.

Information: 305-538-1663 Free and Open to the Public


Sunday, November 9, 2003 at 7:00pm Temple Beth Sholom 4144 Chase Avenue, Miami Beach

Mona Golabek: "The Children of Willesden Lane"
Immediately following the "Kristallnacht" program, internationally acclaimed concert pianist Mona Golabek beautifully combines classical music and spoken words to tell the inspiring story of her mother’s experiences as part of the Kindertransport which saved Jewish Children from the Holocaust. This program highlights the extraordinary gift of music that became her enduring legacy. Book signing and reception will follow.

This program is sponsored by the Miami Jewish Book Fair / Dave and Mary Alper JCC and Temple Beth Sholom-Miami Beach.

Information: 305-538-1663 Free and Open to the Public

This program made possible through the generosity of the following sponsors:
The Holocaust Memorial-Miami Beach, The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at UM, The Dave and Mary Alper JCC -Kendall / Miami Jewish Book Fair, Institute for Judaic & Near Eastern Studies at FIU, MDC Florida Center for the Literary Arts “One Book, One Community”, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Temple Emanu-El of Greater Miami, Beth Sholom, Rabbinical Association of Greater Miami, Bank Atlantic Foundation, The David and Regina Weinberg Family Foundation, With the support of the Miami-Dade County Dept. of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners.