Pittsburgh Tree of Life official announcement - Jan Meisels Allen

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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:19:34 -0700
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (US-PA) October 27 is One Year Anniversary of Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting: Synagogue to be Center for Jewish Life in US

A memorial for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. (Hane Grace Yagel)

October 27 will be one year since the worst anti-Semitic act of violence in the United States: The Pittsburgh shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue OrL’Simcha and two other synagogues in the same building. The shooting left 11 worshippers dead. It has been announced that the synagogue can no longer be a place for worship and has never reopened. However, at Yom Kippur services it was announced that it will reopen as a “center for Jewish life in the United States.”  The statement may be read at:

https://twitter.com/treeoflifepgh/status/1185223170531483649/photo/1

Until then services for Tree of Life Synagogue OrL’Simcha will continue to be held at Rodef Shalom’s Levy Hall in the Oakland neighbored of Pittsburgh.

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Holocaust Documentation and Education Center Announcement

from:		HDEC Education Dept <Education@hdec.org>
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cc:		Rositta Kenigsberg <Rositta@hdec.org>
date:		Oct 25, 2019, 3:21 PM
subject:		Exodus: The Ship That Launched A Nation Film Screening - Nov. 17 @ 1:30 PM
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Good Afternoon Friends,

A special screening of Exodus: The Ship That Launched a Nation is taking place on Sunday, November 17, 2019 at the HDEC.

  

Attached and below please find further details regarding this program.

RSVP to education@hdec.org or call 954-929-5690 X 304 if you wish to attend this program.

General Admission $10 | Student Admission $5; Survivors, Liberators and their spouses admitted free of charge

  

Payments can be made through:

• Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/HDECM
• https://www.paypal.me/HDECM

• Checks can be made payable to the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center, Inc. and can be mailed to: 303 N. Federal Hwy. Dania Beach, FL 33004.

• If you wish to pay by credit card over the phone please call (954) 929-5690 X 304 or X 306.

Please know, all attendees will also be welcome to tour the Israel: Then & Now exhibition after the screening concludes.

Please note, the HDEC is booking Group and individual tours for our next traveling exhibition, Israel: Then & Now, which will run from November 4, 2019 – February 29, 2020. Attached please find the tour request form.

A preview of the exhibition can be found here: http://www.maltzmuseum.org/isr/

http://www.maltzmuseum.org/isr/

For groups of over 20 people please inquire with Erin Cohen at education@hdec.org (education@hdec.org)re: fees and payment.

Looking forward to seeing you all.

Best Regards,

Erin Cohen

Educational Outreach Coordinator

Holocaust Documentation & Education Center

303 N. Federal Highway

Dania Beach, FL 33004

Phone: (954) 929-5690 X 304

Fax: (954) 929-5635

Education@hdec.org

Education@hdec.org

Practicing Safe Computing - Hal Bookbinder

This link will take you to all of Hal's articles about "Practicing Safe Computing".

https://tinyurl.com/ComputingArticles

Paulette Bronstein

President

Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami

This month’s Practicing Safe Computing article is "Making the most of your Password Manager". Password managers provide a convenient way to login to the various password-protected sites that we use. If you don’t already use a password manager, you should seriously consider it. If you have a password manager, are you getting full value from its capabilities?

The article has been published in the October/November issue of "Venturing into Our Past", the Newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV). Current and prior newsletters are freely available at the Society's website, http://www.jgscv.org.

All Practicing Safe Computing articles published to date are available in a single PDF which includes an index. This resource is freely accessible using the following link: https://tinyurl.com/ComputingArticles.

We will continue to update this resource with monthly articles. Consider placing a link to it on your society's web site or otherwise sharing it with your members as an ongoing free resource, reminding them when new articles are available.

If you have any questions or suggestions for future articles, please contact me.

Hal

Hal Bookbinder

hal.bookbinder@ucla.edu

Los Angeles, CA

JAN MEISELS ALLEN-New Book-Dutch Railway 1939-1945

   1. (Netherlands) Dutch Railroad Reckons with Holocaust Shame 75
      Years Later (janmallen@att.net)



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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:10:05 -0700
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (Netherlands) Dutch Railroad Reckons with Holocaust Shame 75 Years Later

German railroads were an instrumental part in the Nazi machine of transporting Jews and others to the death and work camps of World War ll.  The Dutch railway , Nederlandse Spoorwegen, or N.S. participated in the Nazi scheme, regardless that the Dutch government in exile in London ordered the railway workers to strike—which they did for 8 months. The strike occurred after 107,000 Jewish residents of the Netherlands were already deported, of the 140,who identified themselves as Jews to the extermination camps. Others deported included the Sinti, Roma, gay men and lesbians, disabled and resistance fighters.

As reported in the New York Times, a new book, The Dutch Railroad in Wartime, 1939-1945 clarifies the role of the Dutch railways.  The research found 112 Dutch trains went from the Netherlands to nine Nazi camps from June 1942 to August 1944 covering Germany, Austria and Poland.

To read the article and learn more about Dutch railroad complicit actions with the Nazis, see:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/28/world/europe/ns-dutch-railway-holocaust.html

I have no affiliation with the book on the Dutch Railroad and am sharing this information solely for the information of the reader.

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee