SURVIVORS SPEAK AROUND THE WORLD
Survivors to remember ‘Night of Broken Glass’
by Debra Rubin
NJJN Bureau Chief/Middlesex
Two German Holocaust survivors will recount the terrors of Kristallnacht during a Nov. 9 program sponsored by the Henry Ricklis Holocaust Memorial Committee.
The two Monroe residents, Bill Schrimmer and Esther Clifford, will speak of the horror and fear during the “Night of Broken Glass” — Nov. 9-10, 1938 — when thousands of synagogues, Jewish businesses, and homes were set ablaze or destroyed in Austria and Germany.
http://www.njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/103008/sxSurvivorsRemember.html
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NH Holocaust survivors speak out in film/discussion series
PORTSMOUTH — A five-part film/discussion series, Telling Their Stories – NH Holocaust Survivors Speak Out, continues on Thursday, Nov. 13 at 7 pm at Temple Israel, 200 State St.
The film, the third in this series, provides insight into the lives of four Holocaust survivors. Escaping the Nazi regime from their home countries of Germany, Poland, and Hungary, they eventually settled in New Hampshire.
Thomas White, Educational Outreach Coordinator at the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies at Keene State College, will facilitate the discussion. The series is sponsored by The Cohen Center, Portsmouth Community Radio and Awareness Unlimited. The public is invited to attend the events included in this series.
Admission is free. Donations will be accepted. For more information about this event or the film series, contact Deb Barry, Film Series Coordinator, at 603-520-2933 or deb@awareness-unlimited.com.
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TOLEDO INDEPENDENT COLLEGIAN
Holocaust survivor speaks at university
Emil Whitis
His words were “soothing,” like those of a grandfather telling a story from the past, said Natalie Weinstein, a freshman majoring in pharmacy. Elie Wiesel, a world-renowned novelist, activist and survivor of the Holocaust spoke on Thursday to an overflowing crowd at the Student Union Building Auditorium.
“It was so insightful,” Weinstein said. “I sat there … with my mouth wide open, listening to [Wiesel's] every single word.”
Wiesel was born in 1928 in Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. At age 15, he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz, where his mother and younger sister perished. Wiesel and his father were then transported to Buchenwald, where his father died just before the camp was liberated in April 1945.
“Wiesel has written many books, he has told many stories, but perhaps even more important than that, he has lived what is probably the greatest story of our time,” UT President Lloyd Jacobs said. “He is a man of great vision … who has inspired people around the world in many languages and for many, many decades.”
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Holocaust survivor speaks at Solel
By: John Bkila
October 31, 2008 03:53 PM -
Mississaugans are invited to hear an 80-year-old holocaust survivor speak at Solel Synagogue this evening as part of the congregation’s Sabbath service and Holocaust Education Week.
Elly Gotz will make a presentation, From Dachau to Dafur — A Holocaust Survivor Remembers and Acts, during the commemoration of Kristallnacht, otherwise known as the Night of Broken Glass.
Kristallnacht memorializes the night of Nov. 9, 1938 when the Nazi Party coordinated an attack on the Jewish people and their property in Germany, leaving broken glass in the aftermath.
Close to a hundred people were murdered and up to 300,000 were taken to concentration camps.
Gotz, born in 1928 in Lithuania, spent his teenage years in concentration camps and eventually ended up in the Nazi camp of Dachau. He was liberated by the Americans in 1945 and was later reunited with his parents.
After the Second World War, Gotz and his family lived in Germany, Norway, Rhodesia and South Africa. He came to Canada in 1964 and has been a volunteer educator at the Holocaust Centre in Toronto ever since.
Solel Synagogue is located at 2399 Folkway Dr. near Erin Mills Pkwy.
The event starts at 8 p.m.
For more information, call 905-820-5915 or visit www.solel.ca.
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Holocaust survivor to give lecture
KIRA MILLAGE – THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
BELLINGHAM – Holocaust survivor Noemi Ban will share her experiences of being in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp as a child during a special lecture Monday, Nov. 10.
The talk will start at 6 p.m. in Western Washington University’s Artzen 100, the day after the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass at the beginning of the Holocaust.
Ban’s lecture will also include a preview of the film, “My name is Noemi,” created by theater professor Jim Lortz and Ban.
Reservations for the free, hour-long talk are required. To reserve a seat, e-mail the Northwest Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Ethnocide Education at nwche@wwu.edu.
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THE HARTFORD COURANT
FARMINGTON: Holocaust Survivor To Speak At Library
October 30, 2008
Author Martin Schiller, a Holocaust survivor liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp, will deliver the second annual Kristallnacht Lecture at the Farmington Library on Nov. 5 at 1 p.m.
Schiller wrote “Bread, Butter, and Sugar: A Boy’s Journey Through the Holocaust and Postwar Europe,” a book based on his life as a child survivor of the Holocaust. He was 6 when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family fled from their native Tarnobrzeg. He was 9 when he and his family were interned as slave laborers at Skarzysko concentration camp and his father was killed. As the Russian army advanced, he and his brother were deported to Buchenwald. The story of his journey continues after the liberation with their escape from postwar Poland and Germany to find their mother.
Schiller came to the U.S. at 14. He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Haven. He lives with his wife in Fairfield.
The event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is requested. To register, call 860-673-6791.
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the niles star
Former Niles man helps Holocaust survivor tell his story
By JESSICA SIEFF / Niles Daily Star
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:50 AM EDT
Pierre Berg does not mince words when it comes to surviving the holocaust. Amidst the harrowing details of his memory … Berg writes, in his new book, “Scheisshaus Luck; Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora,” “I’d be lying if I said I knew the reason, or if I even believed there is a reason, I’m still alive.”
He chalks it up to luck.
http://www.nilesstar.com/articles/2008/10/14/news/ndnews2.txt
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THE WINDSOR STAR
Survivor of the Holocaust shared story with students
Doug Williamson, Windsor Star
Tony Kuna was a 24-year-old artillery sergeant in the U.S. army when he encountered the horrors of the Holocaust. Harry Weinstein was 15, a prisoner at an Austrian death camp called Gunkirsken.
Kuna and other GIs were chasing Germans in 1945 in the dying days of the Second World War when they came upon the camp, which had been abandoned by the guards.
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=5dc5ccd9-1766-4cad-83fe-9f6f95dc407c
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STILLWATER NEWS PRESS
City Council honors survivor
The Stillwater City Council celebrated a Holocaust survivor Monday, honoring him with a city holiday.
The council issued a proclamation declaring Oct. 24, 2008, as Bob Behr Day. Behr is a Holocaust survivor and will be visiting Stillwater and Oklahoma State University this weekend. He was not available to accept the proclamation.
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THE WEST GEORGIAN
Holocaust Survivor Shares Experiences with Students
Kaleigh Tharpe
Staff Writer
ktharpe1@my.westga.edu
Americans continue to learn of atrocities committed by the German Nazis on the Jewish people during the Holocaust, but few get to experience accounts told by survivors.
The Ingram Library invited Tosia Szechter Schneider, author of “Someone Must Survive to Tell the World” and Holocaust survivor, to speak on October 14 about her experiences through World War II.
The night began with a series of questions, addressed to the audience, said to be lessons that the citizens of the world must learn.
First, “What can we learn from the events that led up to the Holocaust so this will not happen again?”
Second, “What is it in our nature that will make us instruments of torture and destruction of missionaries dedicated to alleviate the suffering of others?”
http://media.www.thewestgeorgian.com/media/storage/paper523/news/2008/10/22/News/Holocaust.Survivor.Shares.Experiences.With.Students-3500641.shtml
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PROJO.COM
holocaust survivor tells West Warwick students about life and death in a Nazi concentration camp
By RANDAL EDGAR
Journal Staff Writer
Holocaust survivor Harold Reissner, 85, of Barrington, spoke to students at West Warwick High School about his time in concentration camps during World War II. Asked if was angry at God for what happened, he said, “God didn’t do it. People did.”
WEST WARWICK — Harold Reissner had what he describes as an “active, happy” childhood. He played sports, he was a Boy Scout, he attended the local public school.
At age 13 he had his bar mitzvah, the ceremony that marks the coming of age for Jewish boys.
It should have been a happy time, but for Reissner, life in his hometown of Furth, in southern Germany, was about to take a dramatic turn.
Soon, he was no longer welcome at school. Friends ignored him. Some taunted him, calling him a “dirty Jew.” Or they spat on him.
“Things changed very quickly,” the 85-year-old Barrington resident told about 100 students yesterday at West Warwick High School.
http://www.projo.com/education/content/HOLOCAUST_SURVIVOR_10-23-08_V8C12B0_v66.39001b4.html
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CANADIAN HOLOCAUST REFUGEES MEET
TORONTO (JTA) – Orphaned Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Canada despite a closed-door policy held a reunion in Montreal. About 20 of the orphaned survivors met Sunday to reminisce about the new life Canada offered after the Holocaust and to mark the 60th anniversary of their arrival. Canada’s immigration policy during the war years was marked by a now-infamous “none is too many” stance. During the Holocaust, Canada admitted a total of only about 5,000 Jews – one of the worst records among Western countries-but it was also one of the first countries to cautiously open its doors to Jewish refugees. In 1947, Ottawa issued just over 1,000 visas for orphaned Holocaust survivors. The Canadian Jewish Congress was charged with finding them homes, jobs and educations. The vast majority were teenagers; only 37 of the young refugees were under 10 years of age. Most of the orphans settled in Toronto and Montreal, while a few hundred were scattered across Western Canada. Despite language difficulties and virtually no money, they went on to prosper and to have families. According to one study, practically none fell into juvenile delinquency or crime. The orphans, now in their late 70s, swapped stories of war-time horror and the hope Canada offered. “We tried to make a living; we had no English, nothing,” said Eva Shainblum, who was 19 when she arrived. “But we evolved.”
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