Upcoming Events at YIVO

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Upcoming Events at YIVO
Don’t miss the last two programs of our Spring Season!

June 12, 2014 | 7pm
Jewish-Christian Relations in Poland:
How One Town Overcame Its Past
Podbrodzer Lecture
Magda Teter, Wesleyan University

In the early 18th century, a blood libel case surged in a small Polish town. The ensuing trial ended in the loss of Jewish life and a haunting legacy. But after decades of struggle, the town has found a way to overcome its past. Continue reading Upcoming Events at YIVO

The Lodz Ghetto, Review by Selma Duckler

Dawid Sierakowiak

“I’d tried to straighten him out, but there’s only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.”
― David Sedaris

It is 69 years since the summer of 1945 when WW11 ended,and the year in which the concentration camps were liberated. Very few of those concentration camp survivors remain, and in not too long a time, there will be no more eye witnesses to that history.

For those of us who see this as a grave fragility, it becomes very important that we take our responsibility to continue to dispense information about the holocaust with great seriousness. Ignorance harbors danger.

There is excellent Holocaust literature and movies. Continue reading The Lodz Ghetto, Review by Selma Duckler