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SUMMARY:Righteous Among the Neighbors Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Righteous Among the Neighbors is a joint project of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and the LIGHT Education Initiative\, in partnership with student journalists at Mt. Lebanon High School\, to honor non-Jewish Pittsburghers who have supported the Jewish community and stood up against antisemitism\, particularly in response to the October 27th\, 2018 attack on three Pittsburgh area Jewish congregations. \nAs part of the mission of LIGHT—to “inspire\, prepare\, and empower the next generation of humanitarians”—Mt. Lebanon students have conducted interviews with the 24 Pittsburghers nominated as Righteous Among the Neighbors for 2023 and written article-length profiles about their efforts. \nWe invite you to join us to celebrate our 2023 Righteous Among the Neighbors honorees at the JCC South Hills on January 17th! \nRegister here.
URL:https://hcofpgh.org/event/righteous-among-the-neighbors-celebration/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center – South Hills\, 345 Kane Boulevard\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15243\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Last Forgotten Victims? Black Lives in Nazi Germany
DESCRIPTION:Join us virtually for our annual commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day as we hear from Dr. Robbie Aitken\, professor at Sheffield Hallam University\, as he discusses the concept of ‘forgotten victims\,’ which looks at the experiences of Germany’s Black resident community. Dr. Aitken’s research suggests that there was a genocidal intent in Nazi policy towards Black people\, which while not systematically implemented\, had a devastating effect on Black lives. The talk will also consider why their stories are missing from public and academic knowledge of the Nazi period as well as more recent attempts to make these life stories visible. \nThis event is in partnership with the Jack Buncher Chair in Jewish Studies at Carnegie Mellon University\, the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh\, and the Department of Social Sciences at Chatham University. \nThis is a virtual event. Registration is free and donation is optional. Click here to register. A link will be made available closer to the date of the event. \n \nProfessor Robbie Aitken is an Historian of Black Europe and Empire at Sheffield Hallam University. He has written widely on the development of a Black community in Germany from the 1880s up to 1945. His publications include Black Germany\, the Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community\, 1884-1960\, (with Eve Rosenhaft). Currently he is working on the Black experience of Nazi Germany as well as post-war compensation claims made by Black victims of the Holocaust. \nHe has worked with a wide range of non-academic audiences such as schools\, museums\, artists\, film directors\, and community groups\, and has been involved in several public exhibition and memorial projects in Berlin as well as developing and staging his own travelling exhibition ‘Black Germany’\, which has been shown in the UK\, Germany\, and Cameroon.
URL:https://hcofpgh.org/event/the-last-forgotten-victims-black-lives-in-nazi-germany/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Lee Goldman Kikel Discusses "Perseverance"
DESCRIPTION:“Lee Goldman Kikel will join us to talk about her late father Melvin Goldman and how she came to share his meaningful story in the book Perseverance: One Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Poland to America. \nIt was in the late 1970s\, over thirty years after most of his family was murdered during the Holocaust that Melvin Goldman sat down alone to record his life story. Then\, twenty years after his death\, Goldman Kikel\, Melvin’s only child\, found her father’s recordings. It was then she learned that he hoped his story would find its way into the world. In Perseverance\, Goldman Kikel fulfills her father’s dream. She tells his story. \nBooks will be available to purchase. \nRegistration is appreciated. Register by calling the library at 412-563-4552\, emailing the library at castleshannon@castleshannonlibrary.org\, dropping by the front desk\, or messaging us on FB.”
URL:https://hcofpgh.org/event/lee-goldman-kikel-discusses-perseverance/
LOCATION:Castle Shannon Library\, 3677 Myrtle Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15234\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Holocaust Historians Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa
DESCRIPTION:Riverstone Books and the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh are pleased to present an evening with Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa \nWorld War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue\, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable\, unknown story of “Countess Janina Suchodolska\,” a Jewish woman who rescued more than 10\,000 Poles imprisoned by Poland’s Nazi occupiers. \nMehlberg operated in Lublin\, Poland\, headquarters of Aktion Reinhard\, the SS operation that murdered 1.7 million Jews in occupied Poland. Using the identity papers of a Polish aristocrat\, she worked as a welfare official while also serving in the Polish resistance. With guile\, cajolery\, and steely persistence\, the “Countess” persuaded SS officials to release thousands of Poles from the Majdanek concentration camp. She won permission to deliver food and medicine for thousands more of the camp’s prisoners. At the same time\, she personally smuggled supplies and messages to resistance fighters imprisoned at Majdanek. Incredibly\, she eluded detection\, and ultimately survived the war and emigrated to the US. Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir\, supplemented with prodigious research\, Elizabeth White and Joanna Sliwa\, professional historians and Holocaust experts\, have uncovered the full story of this remarkable woman. \nRegister here. \nDr. Elizabeth “Barry” White recently retired from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, where she served as historian and as Research Director for the USHMM’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide. Prior to working for the USHMM\, Barry spent a career at the US Department of Justice working on investigations and prosecutions of Nazi criminals and other human rights violators. She served as deputy director and chief historian of the Office of Special Investigations and as deputy chief and chief historian of the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section. She lives in Falls Church\, Virginia. \nDr. Joanna Sliwa is a historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) in New York\, where she also administers academic programs. She previously worked at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee\, and at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. She has taught Holocaust and Jewish history at Kean University and at Rutgers University and has served as a historical consultant and researcher\, including for the PBS film In the Name of Their Mothers: The Story of Irena Sendler. Her first book\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust won the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize awarded by the Wiener Holocaust Library. She lives in Linden\, New Jersey.
URL:https://hcofpgh.org/event/an-evening-with-holocaust-historians-elizabeth-b-white-and-joanna-sliwa/
LOCATION:Riverstone Books\, 5841 Forbes Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15217\, United States
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