In 1950, a construction worker on the site of the destroyed Warsaw Ghetto found a container buried in the rubble. Hidden within it were manuscripts in Hebrew characters with a letter asking that if the manuscripts were found they should be sent to the author’s relatives in Jerusalem. These manuscripts were the final works of…

In 1950, a construction worker on the site of the destroyed Warsaw Ghetto found a container buried in the rubble. Hidden within it were manuscripts in Hebrew characters with a letter asking that if the manuscripts were found they should be sent to the author’s relatives in Jerusalem. These manuscripts were the final works of…

In 1950, a construction worker on the site of the destroyed Warsaw Ghetto found a container buried in the rubble. Hidden within it were manuscripts in Hebrew characters with a letter asking that if the manuscripts were found they should be sent to the author’s relatives in Jerusalem. These manuscripts were the final works of…

In 1950, a construction worker on the site of the destroyed Warsaw Ghetto found a container buried in the rubble. Hidden within it were manuscripts in Hebrew characters with a letter asking that if the manuscripts were found they should be sent to the author’s relatives in Jerusalem. These manuscripts were the final works of…

Please join us on Tuesday, August 29 at 6pm at Longfellow Books for an event featuring Bernice Lerner, author of All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen. The remarkable stories of Rachel Genuth, a poor Jewish teenager from the Hungarian provinces, and Hugh Llewelyn Glyn Hughes,…

Presentation followed by Q&A In this first annual program sponsored by Sue Erber to honor the memory of her father, Steven Avraham Erber, Sue will be speaking about how the arts were key to her father’s survival during the Holocaust and how to honor this legacy for fellow survivors and those were were lost. Teens…

The Portland Museum of Art, with the Maine Jewish Film Festival, presents FOUR WINTERS, a stunning new documentary about the Jewish partisans, who fought the Nazis during World War II. Director Julia Mintz will be at the PMA for post-film conversation and Q&A Sunday.

With historian and poet Anna Wrobel. Film presented in partnership with the Maine Jewish Film Festival. Join us for a community commemoration of Yom Hashoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day, with testimonials, poems, prayers, and a film. Our commemoration will be led by Anna Wrobel and will include testimonials, poetry, a candle lighting ceremony, and Kaddish. We…

Lecture: “Will Our Children Say ‘Never Again’ and Mean It? Lessons from the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and the Struggle to End Humanity‘s Worst Crime” Moderator: Professor Abraham J. Peck Featured Speaker: Dr. Jean-Damascène Gasanabo , former Director General of the Research and Documentation Center on Genocide at the Rwanda National Commission for…

Wednesday, March 29th | 7:00 – 8:30 PM In person at Bowdoin College – Main Lounge – Moulton Union, Brunswick Co-sponsored by Beth Israel Congregation – Bath, Bowdoin College and the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine   This talk will provide an overview of Dr. Huether’s book project, Sounding Trauma, Mediating Memory: Holocaust Economy…