Upcoming & Recent Events
September 15-November 15, 2010—Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
The Last Album Photo Exhibition will open September 15, and because so many departments wish to be involved, there will be photographic installations mounted in multiple locations around campus—including the new Public Health building (opening in September 2010), Emory’s Medical School, the Center for Ethics, directed by Paul Wolpe, the new Hillel building (opening in September 2010), the Visual Arts Center and also the Schwartz Performance Space—For the first time, the photographic exhibition will be mounted in conjunction with musical compositions from the Holocaust period, in which Weiss will interweave narratives among musical compositions performed on Tuesday September 28, 2010 at the Schwartz Performance Space.
This joint program will feature Holocaust music by Italian composer, Lotoro, and will be coordinated and conducted by Honora and Robert Foah. Weiss’ Holocaust narratives will be interspersed between each musical performance.
More details as they become available.
Congregation Ohev Shalom at 2 Chester Road in Wallingford. On Tuesday evening, 23 March, Dr. Ann Weiss will deliver a lecture entitled “Humanizing History: Narratives of Life, from the Ashes of Death.”
Dr. Weiss, the author of Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau, who has interviewed hundreds of survivors of the Holocaust, will give a view of the lives of people before they became victims. This lecture is sponsored by the Robert Nichols Adult Education Fund.
The Ma’ariv service, which lasts about fourteen minutes, will begin at 7:15 and will be followed immediately by the lecture.
The lecture is free, and all are welcome! Refreshments will be served
Sunday March 14, 2010—4 p.m. Marcus Memorial Lecture—Ann will deliver the Fred Marcus Memorial Lecture, in Denver, Colorado.
Organized in memory of survivor Fred Marcus, an exceptional survivor who tried to help others understand the value of life after the Holocaust, this lecture and film screening will take place at the Infinity Event Center at 4400 East Kentucky Avenue in the Glendale section of Denver. For tickets, go to: www.alumni.du.edu\fmmhl and for further information, contact Shoshana Zeldner at Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver szeldner@du.edu or 303.871.3097.
On Sunday March 14, 2010 from 2-4 p.m. University of Rochester Alumni of Denver will host a reception honoring Ann Weiss and her work, prior to the Marcus Lecture.
March 6-8, 2010 Scholar’s Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, 40th anniversary conference and special sessions in memory of Franklin Littel, held at St. Joseph’s University and Temple University.
Weiss shared a passage entitled, “Alone in the Pit–Lunia and the Einsatzgruppen,” excerpted from her mother’s unpublished memoir
February 6, 2010 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Day long seminar for Denver educators, Ann will present several sessions, in conjunction with the University of Denver and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, featuring ‘Auschwitz Photos—Diverse Perspectives from Perpetrators, Bystanders and the Jews.’
Ann concluded the day-long program with her presentation titled, “Humanizing History through Photos and Narratives”
Lindsay Hudgins attended Weiss’ Educators’ Seminar in Denver, sponsored by the University of Denver, the United States Holocaust Museum and the Holocaust Awareness Institute.
For further information, contact Shoshana Zeldner at Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver szeldner@du.edu or 303.871.3097.
January 10-12, 2010 Association of Holocaust Organizations Winter Seminar, Washington, DC Series of annual seminars on diverse Holocaust research, in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Sunday November 15, 2009 Ezra Taglit Birthright Leadership Training seminar for Soviet Jews—Seabreeze Community Center, Brooklyn New York.
Coordinator Gene Smelyanskiy and assistant Olga Henkin organized talk, film screening and discussion for Russian Jews who emigrated from former Soviet Union twenty years ago, when they were children coming to US with their parents. This talk was part of a series of speakers to heighten cultural and historical connections to Judaism.