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Hatikvah Center - Nov. events
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Rare and unusual artifacts are being added to the permanent exhibit "A Reason to Remember" at Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center. They include a cap worn by a concentration camp inmate and the last birthday card sent from Germany to a child in South Africa.
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A number of events and exhibits are planned at the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center in the coming weeks.
Artifacts
Rare and unusual artifacts are being added to the permanent exhibit "A Reason to Remember" at Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center. They include a cap worn by a concentration camp inmate, the last birthday card sent from Germany to a child in South Africa, a number torn from a concentration camp uniform and over 60 other significant items.
These possessions were protected, concealed and often saved under extraordinary circumstances. When the witnesses themselves are no longer here to tell their stories, these artifacts will be all that is left to speak for them.
There will be an open house, "Artifacts: Personalizing History," with docent-led tours to view these newly added artifacts on Nov. 5 from 1:30 4 p.m. at 1160 Dickinson Street.
Visit the web site at www.hatikvah-center.org to view a sampling of these artifacts.
For further information, call Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center at 734-7700.
Author to discuss new book
On Nov. 5, at 4 p.m., Dina Friedman will be speaking about her novel, "Escaping Into the Night," at the Jewish Book Festival in the JCC Lounge, 1160 Dickinson Street, Springfield. This event will follow the Hatikvah Holocaust Center open house at 1 p.m.
"Escaping Into the Night" is set in the forests of Belarus and tells the story of the Bielski brothers who led the partisans. They were responsible for saving the lives of 1,200 Jews who survived by living underground and being constantly on the move.
Copies of her book will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, contact Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center at 734-7700 or the event's co-sponsor, the Jewish Community Center at 739-4715.
Cooley speaks about WWII experiences
Judge Sidney Cooley also will speak about his experiences helping Displaced Persons in Europe at the open house sponsored by Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center. Cooley's presentation will take place Nov. 5, at 1 p.m. in the Springfield Jewish Community Center's auditorium.
It will be followed by docent-led tours of the exhibit at Hatikvah from 1:30 until 4 p.m. Among them is a collection of material from Cooley.
Cooley was commander of a U.S. army unit in Beyreuth, Germany at the end of World War II that assisted with the rehabilitation of Displaced Persons. Cooley trained several hundred Jewish Holocaust survivors on the estate and helped train them in agricultural work to prepare them for immigration to Palestine. Most of these survivors settled in Israel after it was declared a state in 1948.
Before his departure from Beyreuth, the survivors presented him with a citation thanking him for all he did to give them hope and help them return to life.
Interfaith commemoration of Krstallnacht
On Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m., Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center and Elms College will co-sponsor an Interfaith Commemoration of Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass) at the Library Theater at Elms College. This observance is held every year to bring people of different faiths together to remember the night the Nazis destroyed many Jewish owned shops, homes and synagogues.
There will be a personal testimony by Samkhann Khoeun, Cambodian dancers, music and prayers by religious leaders.
For more information about this program, contact Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center at 734-7700 or the Institute for Theology and Pastoral Studies at Elms College at 557-6924.
Beginning on Nov. 13, Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center is offering a 15 week seminar about the Holocaust and major events of modern Jewish history. The seminar will focus on the events that led up to the Holocaust as well as those that shaped World Jewish History in its aftermath. The course will also examine the impact of the Holocaust on Christian/Jewish relations.
For more information or to register for this class, call Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center at 734-7700.
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