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“Letter’s From Brno:” Teaching About the Holocaust Through Personal Stories
“Letter’s From Brno:” Teaching About the Holocaust Through Personal Stories
"Letter’s From Brno:" Teaching About the Holocaust Through Personal Stories Educator Workshop January 29th, 2024 10am-2:30pm at the Virginia Holocaust Museum Deadline to Register: January 26, 2024 Join the Virginia Holocaust Museum and Karen Kruger, writer, and director of the powerful documentary “Letters from Brno.” Using Karen’s family’s story, we will address best practices of Holocaust education using primary resources and survivor voices. The workshop will also give educators the opportunity to screen the film “Letters from Brno.” Participants will then be led on a guided tour of the updated Museum exhibits by VHM Director of Education, Megan Ferenczy. Tour discussion will be focused on educational approaches, best practices, and stories of Virginia Holocaust survivors. This workshop is free for educators and includes: Coffee and Lunch Educator Resources A certificate of attendance Click HERE to Register! About the film “Letter’s from Brno:” Letters from Brno tells the powerful, personal story of love and sacrifice during the Holocaust. In a 45-year search for clues to her mother’s past, daughter, Karen Kruger uncovers the tragic fate of her grandparents through their letters written during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. For questions about the workshop please contact mferenczy@vaholocaust.org
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The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust Co-Authored by Elizabeth B.
The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust Co-Authored by Elizabeth B.
Monday, February 19th, 2024 Lunch at 11:45 • Speakers at 12:30 • Free • Book Signing to Follow The Counterfeit Countess tells, for the first time, the astonishing story of Jewish mathematician Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg, who rescued some ten thousand Poles while posing as “Countess Janina Suchodolska” in the midst of the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland. Drawing on Mehlberg’s unpublished memoir and their prodigious research, professional historian and Holocaust expert Elizabeth White (former Research Director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide, chief historian for the US Department of Justice & Office of Special Investigations) co-authored a riveting narrative that recounts Mehlberg’s extraordinary achievements within the context of the terror and suffering inflicted on Poland by its Nazi occupiers during World War II. Like The Light of Days, Schindler’s List, and Irena’s Children, but at the same time, utterly unique, The Counterfeit Countess is an unforgettable narrative about courage in the face of unspeakable cruelty with inspiration and strength within its pages. This conversation will be moderated by Michelle Lynn Kahn, assistant professor of modern European history at the University of Richmond. Her research situates post-1945 Germany in a transnational frame, focusing on migration, racism, far-right extremism, gender, and sexuality. Reservations are a MUST! Please RSVP by February 15th. To register for in-person or on zoom, please email Shari Menlowe-Barck at sbarck@weinsteinjcc.org or call 804-545-8611