Hinenu: We Are Here and Look Who Is with Us.

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1 Hinenu: We Are Here and Look Who Is with Us. 27th Annual Conference World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants & Generations of the Shoah International Oct. 9-12, 2015 Westin Galleria Hotel Houston, Texas, USA Presented by In cooperation with Hosted by 1

2 The Westin Galleria Houston Third Level 2 3

3 PROGRAM SCHEDULE Friday, Oct. 9, :00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Meeting of the Board of the World Federation 5:00 5:45 p.m. Briefing for Workshop Facilitators Only 5:45 p.m.: Shabbat Candle Lighting FOYER 6:00 6:45 p.m.: Friday Night Services - Orthodox Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff Reform Rabbi Dan Aronson 7:00 8:30 p.m.: DINNER BALLROOM Welcome: Houston WF: Stefanie Seltzer HMH: Gail Klein GSI: Pepi Nichols Norbert Bikales, Past President of OSE-USA 9:00 p.m.: GATHERINGS SURVIVORS MEET by COUNTRY of ORIGIN/ LANGUAGES Poland Germany/Austria/Hungary Czech/Romania France/ Belgium/Netherlands WESTCHESTER Other Countries BELLAIRE GET ACQUAINTED First Time at Conference SAGE Second Generation Third Generation/Fourth Generation POST OAK Spouses/Partners WEST ALABAMA Born or Lived in Displaced Persons Camp SAN FELIPE 4 5

4 Saturday, Oct. 10, :00 a.m. Religious Services: Orthodox - Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff Reform - Rabbi Dan Aronson 7:00 a.m. Morning Walk: Start Your Day in a Healthy Way - with Bonnie Stein Meet - First Floor - HOTEL LOBBY 7:30 9:00 a.m.: BREAKFAST BALLROOM 9:15 10:00 a.m.: Plenary Opening Address The Future of Auschwitz and Other Holocaust-Related Sites Robert Jan Van Pelt, Ph.D. - Holocaust Historian, Author, Professor at University of Waterloo and University of Toronto 10:15 a.m. 12:15 p.m.: WORKSHOPS/PANELS Survivors ONLY - Workshops Years of Liberation After the Shoah What Valuable Lessons Have We Learned and What Makes Us Proud (Elisheva van der Hal) 2. The Past is Never Past How Are We Still Affected by It (Stefanie Seltzer) 3. We Are the Youngest and Last Generation of Survivors Born Between 1940 and 1945 (Chaja Verveer) WEST ALABAMA Second/Third/Fourth Generation Workshops 4. 2G ONLY What Are the Positives and the Negatives We Received Growing Up in Survivor Families (Charles Silow, Ph.D.) BELLAIRE 5. 3G and 4G ONLY What I Would Like to Ask or What I Wish I Could Have Asked My Grandparents (Sarah Weiss) POST OAK Spouses/Partners of Survivors and of 2G ONLY - Workshop 6. Living With a Survivor or Second Generation How Have We or Our Families Been Affected (Jim Getola, spouse of Survivor, Lynn Gordon, spouse of 2G) Open to ALL Panels 7. What Do I Do With My Family s Precious Artifacts (Gregg Phillipson, Carol Manley, Judith Cohen) WESTCHESTER 8. Passing On Holocaust Memory: Memoirs, Diaries, Videos (Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, Rita Lurie, Helen Mitsios, Robin Levy, Anne Levy) SAGE 6 7

5 12:30 1:45 p.m.: LUNCH BALLROOM 2:00 2:45 p.m.: Plenary BALLROOM Who Writes the Caption? Evolving Interpretations - Photographs from the Holocaust to Recent Genocides Anne Wilkes Tucker Curator Emerita of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston 3:00 5:00 p.m.: WORKSHOPS/PANELS Survivors ONLY - Workshops 9. Facing Our Growing Older What Do We Need to Consider (Daisy Miller) 10. Outwardly I Seem to Fit In But Inwardly I Remain Alone (Stefanie Seltzer) Second/Third/Fourth Generation - Workshops 11. 2G ONLY Dealing With the Challenges of Aging and the Losses of Our Parents (Charles Silow, Ph.D. and Muriel Meicler, Ph.D.) POST OAK 12. 3G and 4G ONLY- The Legacy: Balancing Our Responsibilities to Remember (Sarah Weiss) BELLAIRE Open to ALL Workshop 13. Dialogue Between the Generations (Elisheva van der Hal) 14. Reflecting Memory Through Art - No art experience necessary (Nadira Lorin) WEST ALABAMA Open to ALL Panel 15. Antisemitism in Western Europe Georgios Papanikolaou, Consul General of Greece - Sujiro Sean, Consul General of France - Bernd Georg Reindl, Deputy Consul General of Germany - Max Arpels Lezer, Executive Vice President of the WFJCSHD - Moderator: Ursula Muenzel, Ph.D. WESTCHESTER 5:15 6:15 p.m. - FILM: Rescue in the Philippines (Barbara Sasser) SAGE 5:15 6:15 p.m.: Debriefings for Workshop Facilitators 6:00 6:45 p.m.: COCKTAILS (CASH BAR) 6:30 7:00 p.m.: Mincha 7:15 8:30 p.m.: DINNER BALLROOM 7:46 p.m. Pause: Havdalah Charles Silow, Ph.D. 8:30 9:15 p.m.: Plenary BALLROOM Holocaust Education and Remembrance Connecting with the World Through the United Nations Kimberly Mann, Chief of Education Outreach of United Nations, Including Holocaust Education 9:15 p.m. midnight: MUSIC/DANCING BALLROOM 8 9

6 10 Sunday, Oct. 11, :00 a.m.: Minyan 7:00 a.m.: Morning Walk: Start Your Day in a Healthy Way - with Bonnie Stein Meet- First Floor - HOTEL LOBBY 7:30 9:00 a.m.: BREAKFAST BALLROOM 9:15 10:00 a.m.: Plenary BALLROOM The Responsibilities of the Generation After: Holocaust Memory at the Crossroads Michael Berenbaum, Ph.D. - Holocaust Scholar, Author Director, Sigi Ziering Institute, American Jewish University 10:15 a.m. 12:15 p.m.: WORKSHOPS/PANELS Survivors ONLY - Workshops 16. Having Learned to Be Independent and Self Reliant in Early Life How Do I Face and Adapt To Possible Dependence As I Grow Older (Daisy Miller) 17. Some of My Most Difficult Childhood Memories Should I Speak of Them with My Loved Ones What Should I Tell (Stefanie Seltzer) Second/Third/Fourth Generation 18. 2G Only - What I Wish To Ask or Would Like to Have Asked My Parents (Ira Brenner and Helen Lesarte) 19. 2G, 3G, 4G - Whose Story Is This Anyway? Finding My Voice In Telling My Family s Narrative (Karen Shawn, Ph.D.) Open to All - Workshop 20. What Happened To Us After Liberation- Sharing With Next Generations - Reminiscing, Telling, Asking and Learning (Elisheva van der Hal) POST OAK Open to All - Panels 21. Three Voices on the Future of Holocaust and Genocide Education (Kori Street, Ph.D.; Mary Lee Webeck, Ph.D.; Emily Sample) WESTCHESTER 22. Writing Our Family History and Its Impact On Our Lives (Bella Rubin) SAGE 12:30 1:45 p.m.: LUNCH BALLROOM 2:00 2:45 p.m.: Plenary BALLROOM How the Voices of the Past Can Develop the Voices of the Future Kori Street, Ph.D., Director of Education USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education 3:00 5:00 p.m.: WORKSHOPS/PANELS 11

7 Survivors ONLY - Workshops 23. Despite All the Horror - Were There Experiences During the Holocaust That Have Had Positive Effects on My Life (Daisy Miller) Second/Third/Fourth Generation Workshop/Panel 24. Creating and Maintaining Second and Third Generation Groups (Bonnie Stein, Rina Tambor, Ben Proler, David Hassid, D.M.D.) WESTCHESTER Open To All Panels/Seminar 25. 2G, 3G, 4G - Spirituality After the Shoah (Rabbi Brian Strauss) POST OAK 26. Tracing Our Roots Researching Families (Avraham Groll, Max Blankfeld, Joyce Field) 27. Preserving, Transmitting Holocaust Memory (Suzanna Eibuszyc, Renata Kessler, Sandy Lessig) BELLAIRE 5:30-6:30 p.m.: Open to ALL/Seminar Continuing to Fight for a Measure of Justice: The Future of the Claims Conference in the Lives of Survivors (Gregory Schneider, Executive Vice President, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) WESTCHESTER 5:15 6:30 p.m.: REST/FREE TIME/SCHMOOZING/ COCKTAILS (CASH BAR) 5:15 6:15 p.m.: Debriefing for Workshop Facilitators 6:30 7:00 p.m.: Lighting Memorial Candles Ceremony BALLROOM 7:15 8:30 p.m.: DINNER BALLROOM 8:30 9:15 p.m.: Plenary BALLROOM Is There a Future for Europe s Jews Mark Weitzman, Director of the Task Force Against Hate & Terrorism for the Simon Wiesenthal Center 9:15 midnight: MUSIC/DANCING BALLROOM 9:15 10:35 p.m.: FILM: Berlin Calling SAGE 12 13

8 14 Monday Oct. 12, :00 a.m. Morning Walk: Start Your Day in a Healthy Way - with Bonnie Stein Meet- First Floor - HOTEL LOBBY 7:30 9:00 a.m.: BREAKFAST BALLROOM 9:15 10:00 a.m.: Plenary BALLROOM Panel Discussion With Audience Participation The World Federation and Descendants - Going Forward - Into the Future!!! Members of the World Federation Child Survivors and Second Generation Leadership 10:15 11:00 a.m.: CLOSING CEREMONY BALLROOM THANK YOU HOUSTON and ALL WHO WORKED SO HARD!!! Passing the Quilt to Our Next Host Group 2016 See you Next Year in Los Angeles, California Nov. 4-7, 2016 Form Our Traditional Circle We Sing Together!! 12:00 noon: Buses Depart for Visit to Holocaust Museum Houston. Lunch provided free, courtesy of HMH (For those with Reservations) HOTEL LOBBY 2:30 p.m.: One Bus Leaves Holocaust Museum Houston for Westin Galleria, One Bus Travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2:30 4 p.m.: Optional Tour of the Roman Vishniac Exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (For those with Reservations) Many people have seen Roman Vishniac s iconic work A Vanished World, but these photographs are only a minute selection of Vishniac s entire work. This exhibit will give people an opportunity to see a selection of Vishniac s photographs of prewar Europe, Berlin, Jewish life in the United States and post-war displaced persons camps that were never before published. 4:30 p.m.: Buses Depart the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for the Westin Galleria 15

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