The Tehran Children: Iran's Unexpected Connection to the Holocaust - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7:00 PM

FROM THE HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTATION & EDUCATION CENTER

For more information contact Rositta E. Kenisberg Rositta@hdec.org

 Dear Members of the Board, Survivors, Teachers, Students, Volunteers and Friends,

 

As the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center continues to feature and offer a wide variety of online programs focused on various topics of the Holocaust, today we are adding the following program from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Chautauqua Institution:

Program:         "The Tehran Children: Iran's Unexpected Connection to the Holocaust"

 

Date:                Tuesday, December 8, 2020

 

Time:               7:00 PM

 

Platform:        This event will take place online and is free to the public.

 

Registration is required. Please click HERE ​to register. 

During World War II, Iran gave shelter to thousands of Polish Jews fleeing the Nazis. Within this group who traversed vast parts of the Soviet Union to Iran, there were 1,000 young people who became known as the Tehran Children. 

This history is less familiar in Iran, where the regime has become known for anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and the suppression of access to Holocaust history.

During this two-part digital program, join experts to learn about Iran's lesser-known connection to the Holocaust, hear about a daughter's decade-long journey in the footsteps of her "Tehran Child" father, and examine why retracing this history is relevant today, not only to Iranians, but all of humanity.

Part One: Why was Iran's wartime rescue of Jewish orphans obscured?

Speakers:

Dr. Mikhal Dekel, Author, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey, and Director, Rifkind Center, City College of New York

Arash Azizi, Author, The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions

Moderator:

Dr Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Part Two: How did this history impact one descendant of Jewish refugees?

Speakers:

Dr. Mikhal Dekel, Author, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey, and Director, Rifkind Center, City College of New York

Moderator:

Sony Ton-Aime, Director, Literary Arts, Chautauqua Institution

Once you have finished viewing this program please fill out the Program Survey attached and email it back to the HDEC at education@hdec.org.

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

STAY SAFE AND TAKE GOOD CARE!

Rositta E. Kenigsberg, President

Holocaust Documentation & Education Center, Inc.

303 N. Federal Highway

Dania Beach, FL 33004
Office (954) 929-5690
Fax (954) 929-5635
Website: www.hdec.org
Email: Rositta@hdec.org

 

Supreme Court to Weigh Heirs' Claims - Article in the Los Angeles Times

 

To read more click on this link to the Los Angeles Times Article 

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-12-03/supreme-court-weighs-if-heirs-of-jewish-art-dealers-can-sue-over-nazis-forced-sale-of-relics

Suggested by 

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

JEWS WHO FLED IRAN FROM NAZIS Online program

 

From Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

 

"Starting Tuesday December 8, 2020 the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) , in partnership with the Chautauqua Institution will present an online program on Iran’s connection to Jews who escaped the Holocaust.  This is a two-part online event entitled, “The Tehran Children: Iran’s Unexpected & Suppressed Connection to the Holocaust”. This was inspired by the 2019 memoir  Tehran Children:  A Holocaust refugee by Mikhal Dekal.

 

The memoir tells the story of over a million Polish Jews who fled the Nazis during the Holocaust into the Soviet Union – specifically focusing on the nearly 1,000 children who were sent to Iran. The author's father, Hannan Teitel, was one of these children.

 

The event is part of The Sardari Project: Iran and the Holocaust, the result of a collaboration between the USHMM and the Persian-language website: https://iranwire.com/en This website is also in Farsi."

 

The series will feature 13 article and nine videos. In addition to the IranWire’s.com Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Iranwire) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/iranwire3) channels it is available at the https://iranwire.com/en/special-features?filter=sardari-project

 

At https://iranwire.com/en/special-features/8195?ref=specials  There is also a 7 minute video about the program

 

To read more see: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/us-holocaust-museum-launches-program-on-jews-who-fled-to-iran-from-nazis-651316

 

The USHMM release may be accessed at:

https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/museum-and-iranwirecom-launch-sardari-project-bringing-holocaust-history-t 

 

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Jewish Refugees From Arab Countries-Consulate General of Israel In Miami and Sephardi Voices-Monday, November 30th at 12 pm EST

 

Jewish Refugees From Arab Countries

Monday, November 30, 2020 at 12 pm EST

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter - PDF - UJE's Traveling Exhibit Catalogue and Narrative from UJE (Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter)

 

"UJE’s traveling exhibit A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1914 visited four major Canadian cities in 2015, winning wide acceptance and praise from both Ukrainian and Jewish communities and general audiences.  Now, a catalogue by the same name builds on the exhibition’s narrative and more intricately explores the many-sided relationship between Ukrainians and Jews, two peoples who for nearly two millennia have inhabited the land that comprises contemporary Ukraine."

Click on the link to get to the site.  Then click on the painting to open the PDF.

https://ukrainianjewishencounter.org/en/new-uje-museum-catalogue-to-debut-in-canada-at-toronto-ukrainian-festival/

My Jewish Learning - Hebrew Acronyms and Abbreviations - Breslover Society JOWBR Project

 A Guide to Jewish Learning

Click here for an article about Jewish Acronyms and Abbreviations:

HEBREW ABBREVIATIONS

Thanks to Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami member

Phyllis Lehman

for helping with 250 gravestone translations.

Phyllis helped me complete my JOWBR (JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry) Breslover Society project for Jewishgen.org.

Breslover Society Beth David Cemetery Elmont, NY

LINK TO BRESLOVER SOCIETY BETH DAVID

Breslover Society Mt. Lebanon Cemetery Queens, NY

LINK TO BRESLOVER SOCIETY MT. LEBANON

Pauline Gamburg JOWBR image

Braslau, Belarus kehilalink:

https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/breslav/braslav.html

Jewish Genealogical Society of Broward County - Zoom Meeting - Sunday, November 15, 2020 at 1:00 PM EDT - A Brief Visit to Poland: Jewish Warsaw Today

 

JewishGen Talks - Roots of Jews from Ottoman Empire: Names and History - Dr. Alexander Beider - December 16, 2020 @ 2:00 PM EDT

JewishGen Talks

https://www.jewishgen.org/live

Roots of Jews from Ottoman Empire: Names and History

Dr. Alexander Beider

December 16, 2020 @ 2:00 PM EDT

 

JewishGen Talks - Roots of Jews from Eastern Europe: Names, Language, and History - Dr. Alexander Beider - December 9, 2020 @ 2:00 PM EDT

JewishGen Talks

https://www.jewishgen.org/live

Roots of Jews from Eastern Europe: Names, Language, and History

Speaker: Dr. Alexander Beider

December 9, 2020 @ 2:00 PM EDT

 

 

JewishGen Talks - The Genetic Origins of the Jewish People - Adam Brown - December 2, 2020 @ 2:00 PM EDT

https://www.jewishgen.org/live

The Genetic Origins of the Jewish People

JewishGen Talks

 

JewishGen Talks - Dr. Stephen Morse - November 18, 2020 @ 2:00 PM EDT

Dr.  Stephen Morse

The History of the Geography of New York City

JewishGen Talks

https://www.jewishgen.org/live

 

Introducing the JewishGen Crypto Jewish Collection November 10, 2020 at 3:00 PM EST

Free JewishGen.org Lecture followed by Q/A with our JGSGM Past President Genie Milgrom

https://www.jewishgen.org/live

 

FREE ACCESS TO ALL DEATH RECORDS ON MYHERITAGE FOR HALLOWEEN

 

https://blog.myheritage.com/

FREE ACCESS TO ALL DEATH RECORDS FOR HALLOWEEN OCTOBER 29 TO NOV 2

Click on the blog link for the death records search.

Center for Jewish History Genealogy Coffee Break on Facebook on Tuesdays

 

YouTube video about the Center for Jewish History resources

https://genealogy.cjh.org/about

You can watch live free of charge every Tuesday at 3:30 PM ET.

http://facebook.com/centerforjewishhistory/videos

You will only be able to see the video once it has gone live.

See past episodes by clicking this link:

http://cjh.org/GenealogyCoffeeBreak

Contact information:

Moriah Amit, M.S.L.I.S.

Senior Reference Services Librarian, Genealogy Coordinator

Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute

Center for Jewish History

15 West 16th St., New York, NY 10011

mamit@cjh.org 

 

THE SECRETS OF THE GREAT SYNAGOGUE OF VILNA (Free) Presented by the Vilna Shul of Boston

 SEE PART ONE OF THE SECRETS OF THE GREAT SYNAGOGUE BY CLICKING THIS LINK

https://youtu.be/K0d1EyXycTw

Watercolor by Juozas Kamarauskas (1899)

"Be among the first to see a sneak peek of "The Secrets of the Synagogue", a film that documents the uncovering of the grand religious institution in Vilnius. This glimpse into the uncovering of the Great Synaogogue of Vilna will be followed by a riveting discussion with part of the team that made this amazing discovery possible: US archaeologist Dr. Richard Freund, Lithuanian Film Project Director Loic Salfati, geoscientist and GPR (ground penetrating radar) expert Dr. Harry Jol, and lead cartographer, Dr. Phil Reeder.

The Great Synagogue of Vilna, the spiritual and physical home of the Lithuanian Jews, one of the oldest and most significant religious and cultural sites of Eastern European Jewry, was ransacked during WWII and destroyed by the Soviets in 1956. An elementary school was built on top of the remains.  The film chronicles the process to uncover, document and now preserve the remains of this synagogue. Please note that you will see only a portion of the film, not the entire film, as it is not yet completed! We expect to premiere the film in its entirety in the Spring of 2021. As part of the process to find a fitting memorial for the synagogue and its associated buildings, a joint expedition of professionals, students and volunteers from the Lithuania, US, Canada, Israel, and other nationalities have formed to excavate, preserve and present in-situ the remains of the Great Synagogue as part of an overall plan  for safeguarding the memory of the Jewish community of Vilnius, the 'Jerusalem of Lithuania'. This documentary tells their story and the story of the Great Synagogue, a symbol of lost civilization and thanks to the Good Will Foundation of the Jewish Community of Lithuania this work has been on-going since 2015. "

You will receive a link to watch an exclusive preview (full documentary to be completed Sept. 2021) several days PRIOR to the Nov. 1 panel discussion.

TO REGISTER CLICK  (https://vilnashul.org/events/event/thesecrets-of-the-great-synagogueof-vilna)

BOSTON VILNA SHUL VIRTUAL EVENTS https://vilnashul.org/events/category/virtual

HAL BOOKBINDER "Misleading Google Results"

 From: "hal.bookbinder@ucla.edu" <HBOOKBINDER@roadrunner.com>

To: "'leadership@iajgs.org'" <leadership@iajgs.org>
Cc: 
Bcc: 
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 02:09:28 +0000
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] Misleading Google Results

Dear IAJGS Leaders,

We routinely rely on Google to find information and websites that we want to access. Yet the top sites returned may not be what you want but rather sites that paid for top placement. Other sites below are ordered based on secret and regularly changing algorithms. Yet, most of us continue to click on one of to top sites listed and rarely go to the second or third page. This can be an expensive mistake. This month's Practicing Safe Computing article provides some real-life examples of deceptive Google results.

"Misleading Google Results" has been published in the November, 2020 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 that includes an index. This resource is freely accessible at https://tinyurl.com/SafeComputingArticles

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.

Best,

Hal

Hal Bookbinder

hal.bookbinder@ucla.edu

Los Angeles, CA

New York City Municipal Archives ALERT/STOP LICENSING FEES FOR PUBLIC RECORDS

\https://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/access-alert

https://rules.cityofnewyork.us/rule/32136/ 

 

THE FORGOTTEN REFUGEES FILM AND DISCUSSION OCTOBER 25, 2020 AT 10:00 AM (East Coast Time))

The Forgotten Jewish Refugees Discussion

with Avi Goldwasser

Sunday, October 25th / 10:00 - 11:00 AM (East Coast Time) via Zoom

A Program of Temple Sinai of Sharon, Massachusetts

Please join us for this year's Stanley & Vera Marshall Lecture, where we will be discussing the documentary, The Forgotten Refugees, with the film's Executive Producer, Avi Goldwasser.

The Forgotten Refugees is an award winning documentary about the expulsion of Jews from Arab countries and Iran beginning in 1948 and explores the history and destruction of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities, some of which had existed for over 2,500 years.  Employing extensive testimony of survivors from Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Iraq and Iran, the film recounts the stories that nearly a million individuals have carried with them for so long.  Viewing the documentary and then attending the discussion are both free.

Please try to view the film prior to the discussion by going to:

                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHuo0Bw3tgQ

Zoom Login Information for the October 25th discussion with filmmaker, Avi Goldwasser is

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/3697230846

Meeting ID: 369 7230846

Password: Bagels

NEW SEASON OF FINDING YOUR ROOTS Tuesday, October 13 at 8 p.m. on PBS

 A new season of FINDING YOUR ROOTS

 with 

HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. 

begins Tuesday, October 13 at 8 p.m. on PBS!

https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/watch/tv-schedule

Thanks to Jan Meisels Allen for this information.

YIVO Institute of Jewish Research Interactive Exhibit featuring Jewish life before the Holocaust

 

https://museum.yivo.org/table-of-contents/

https://museum.yivo.org/experiences/introduction/

New York times article about the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research interactive exhibit:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/arts/design/bebas-story-jews-before-nazis-yivo.html

This is a wonderful interactive exhibit at the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research. The interactive exhibit includes vintage film footage, vintage photographs, recordings of Yiddish songs, and more.  

Vintage pictures of the Vilna Halle Targowe Market Halls and a busy market place next to the Halle Targowe Market Halls are included in the YIVO Exhibit.

Family History Library October Class Schedule

Click this link to view and register for the Family History Library Classes:

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/img_auth.php/8/86/Oct_2020_Classes.pdf

Click here for more information about Family History Classes and Webinars:

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Family_History_Library_Classes_and_Webinars

 

The Rise, Migration, and Survival of Cuba's Jewish Community in Two Countries - Sunday Salon Zoom Meeting October 18th at 10:30 a.m.

 A slice of Jewish Heritage - A timeline of the Cuban American Jewish Community

Zoom Presentation with Temple Beth Am in collaboration with the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami

Sunday, October 18th at 10:30 a.m.

Register at jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com to get a link to attend