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Call us at (301) 933-4716 to learn more
about these upcoming events. (Also for an overview of our type of activities
and links to past activities pages, please go to our Activities
Overview page.) March 2009 Flyer Please join us for a very special program… Edwin Black, the award-winning international investigative author of IBM and the Holocaust and 65 other bestselling volumes, will discuss his latest work, Nazi Nexus. Black will describe his research into American corporate complicity in the Holocaust-from the Ford Motor Company to Carnegie to Rockefeller to General Motors and, of course, IBM. Black is the son of survivors and resides in the DC area. PLEASE JOIN US! Sponsored by: Washington, DC Generation After,
free and open to all
April 2, 2009, 7:00 p.m.-US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC April 13, 2009, 7:30 p.m.-DC JCC, Washington, DC - In commemoration
of Yom Hashoah, the DC premiere of a powerful new documentary As Seen Through
These Eyes. Followed by discussion with filmmaker Aviva Kempner
(Partisans of Vilna) and Bernice Steinhardt, founder of Art and Remembrance,
both daughters of Holocaust survivors who were artists. April 19th at 3:00 p.m., Beth Sholom Congregation, Potomac Yom Ha'Shoah
v'Hagvurah Commemoration, with keynote speaker Mark Talisman, founding
Vice Chair of the US Holocaust Memorial Council, on. At 2pm, Dor L'Dor
program for students to speak with survivors. For more information: call The Generation
After, April 20, 2009, 6:30 p.m.-Polish Embassy, Washington, DC We are invited to the embassy in honor of the visit of five Righteous Among the Nations from Poland who will be visiting the US. April 21, 2009, 6:30 p.m. - Theater Arts Arena, Montgomery College,
Rockville, MD April 22, 2009, 7:00 p.m. - Goethe-Institut / German Cultural Center,
812 7th St NW, The Generation After P.O. Box 5854 Derwood,
MD 20855
Beyond The Flyer You and Your Aging Holocaust
Survivor Parents - (now ongoing!)
Informal Brunch Drop-in
at Max’s Please Switch
to E-mail Instead of Snail Mail! World Federation
of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust (WFJCSH) Volunteers to
Help with Bad Arolsen Archive General GenAfter News Please sign up to receive our newsletters
via email. Volunteers are always needed. The Generation After is open to your
suggestions. Places to Meet.
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Exciting New Project Ideas In addition to our upcoming programs, several new exciting projects are getting started now and ideas. For these projects we need your help and interest! TEACHING OF THE HOLOCAUST WITH
SURVIVORS SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR COPING
WITH AGING PARENTS GETTING HOLOCAUST TRAINING
TO BE MANDATORY IN LOCAL SCHOOLS A WWII HISTORY MULTI-PART LEARNING
PROGRAM -- VIRIGINA CHAVERA EDUCATIONAL WASHINGTON VIDEO
- for release at schools and lectures We are working to develop a locally-based Holocaust video which can be used for future education. It will focus on local resident survivors & the Shoah Foundation has agreed to release their tapes to us for use and editing. We've also received input from high school students on what they would like to see, and will be coordinating with local Survivor and 3rd Generation groups. If you have experience in filming or know a film student who wants to work on this project, please let us know! If you have any interest in this exciting project, please contact us. This will cost money, and so we will also expect to do some innovative fund raising. We definitely need more people to make this a reality! GENEALOGY ACTIVITY TALKING ABOUT WHATEVER IS ON
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What's New in the 2nd Generation and Holocaust News |
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Yad Vashem - Newsletter January
2008 - Special Alert This is a special alert from Yad
Vashem re: ITS and the Bad Arolsen archive. Yad Vashem has updated its technical resources, and inquiries about Holocaust victims may now be made online. The vast archival materials amassed over the years at Yad Vashem, including a portion of the scanned International Tracing Service (ITS) materials recently transferred to Yad Vashem, will be accessed to respond to these queries. Our reference staff, recently bolstered to attend to the expected influx in inquiries, will respond individually to each request, but please allow several weeks for an answer. Meanwhile, because the documents received from the ITS are not in an online searchable format, Yad Vashem’s technical staff is working diligently to make them accessible via our reference staff. In parallel, Yad Vashem is investing immense efforts to integrate the ITS materials into its computer systems in order to eventually make them available to the public in a user-friendly manner. With 75 million pages of documentation, as well as photographs, testimonies, Pages of Testimony and more, Yad Vashem’s Archives comprise the largest collection of information on the Holocaust. In the mid-1950s Yad Vashem microfilmed large portions of the International Tracing Service (ITS) records, incorporating those documents into its Archives. An amendment to the ITS treaty by its International Commission in November 2007, has allowed Israel, represented by Yad Vashem, to obtain scanned copies of the entire ITS collection. While much of the first portion of this information, received in August 2007, duplicates the documents received decades ago, the copies received by Yad Vashem comprise additional material collected by the ITS over the last 50 years, as well as documents never received by Yad Vashem. The receipt of the scanned ITS materials is an ongoing project with additional materials to be transferred to Yad Vashem over the course of the next two years. Decades of Experience Information requests may be sent via mail or fax (+972-2-644-3669), using a downloadable form, or an online form. To learn more about submitting a request click here. For more information, facts and history about ITS, Yad Vashem and the documents in the Archives, please visit our ITS fact sheet. As always, our research staff considers these requests an important priority and new queries will be answered in a timely manner. The public is welcome to visit Yad Vashem and search our entire collection of archival material. Our reading room is open 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, Sunday -Thursday. Bad Arolsen Archives July 2007 - Clearly the many letters sent to our Senators and Congressmen have paid off because dozens of legislators are urging Italy to end its holdout position as the last nation to ratify the treaty releasing the Bad Arolsen archive. This has been an amazing grassroots effort and thanks go to all those who contacted their Senators and Representatives. August 2007 - And then from Sara J. Bloomfield, President of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum in her invitation to a special briefing by Mr.
Reto Meister, director of the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad
Arolsen, Germany: Mr. Meister's visit is a unique opportunity to gain a greater understanding
of the archive. In addition, a team of Museum staff will present an Insurances being Approved at Very Low Rate Again, a grassroots advocacy effort was a launched on behalf of the Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2007, which was being opposed the by Insurance companies. Several articles were written about
the limited approvals of insurance claims at around 85% rejection. From
New York "'Phantom Rule' May Have Limited Holocaust-Era Awards To
Claimants" One Generation After member writes
that, the second issue for me are the Austrian banks. They will
not disclose how much was in the accounts before the Germans emptied them
out. I got a notice of my father's existing bank account from the
--- Bank, which was now empty. But was News Items about Local Members Our own beloved Flora Singer has published her book, will be doing a book "Flora--I was but a Child". She has been doing book signings including at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and an article about the book was published by the Washington Jewish Week newspaper (along with a followup letter to the editor with more clarified facts.) The American Jewish Press Association has announced that Edwin Black's
enterprise series "GM and the Nazis", also known as "Hitler's
Carmaker," won the Rockower Award for best investigative piece of
the year. The series uncovered the full truth about GM 's economic
> and military partnership with the Third Reich, helping the Nazis
> conquer Europe. The full series in its its many formats and versions
> can be seen at http://www.internalcombustionbook.com/gmandthenazis.php. The Washington Jewish Week's article
about Anat Bar-Cohen's father's experiences and chance encounter with
a liberator of the camp he was in, can be found at: CIA files have more on Bad Arolsen - John Loftus For those of us who remember our
visit with the Florida 2G group years My name is John Loftus. I am a former
federal prosecutor with CIA clearances. Back in 1982 my expose with Mike
Wallace on Nazi war criminals working for CIA won the Emmy award. I am
so pleased with the recent 60 Minutes show on the Bad Arolsen Holocaust
files, but there is another story, perhaps more important, explaining
why the ITS archives have not been released for the last sixty years. For Up to Date News -Generations of the Shoah International (GSI) For more extensive and regular updates
on Holocaust and Second Generation Related news... This umbrella
group for descendants and children of survivor groups around the world,
publishes an extensive monthly newsletter (which is sent to the Generation
After's email list). They are available on their website: www.genshoah.org
and by email gsi@imeg.com. Our
own president, Esther Finder of The Generation After, was one of the group's
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