AT THE BREMAN Issue #1 Winter 2017

ISSUE NO 1 / DECEMBER 2016

N E W S A N D N O T E S F R O M T H E W I L L I A M B R E M A N J E W I S H H E R I TA G E M U S E U M

Atlanta Collects TREASURES FROM ATLANTA’S PRIVATE COLLECTORS

Deborah Lipstadt IS IN ‘DENIAL’

20 Things to Do AT THE BREMAN

Tracing Family Roots USING THE ARCHIVES

William Breman 1908 -2000

DAD, ZADIE, and JARVIN, THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH AN INSPIRATION and ROLE MODEL TO US ALL. YOU ARE WHAT MAKES THIS FAMILY SO SPECIAL. CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS WELL-DESERVED HONOR! Love, Michael, Jennifer, Danny, Sharon, Karen, Andy, Naomi, Cari, Jonah, Turner, Leah, Tate, and Taylor

ISSUE ONE DECEMBER 2016

WELCOME TO THE DEBUT ISSUE OF AT THE BREMAN MAGAZINE! Twice a year we hope you’ll find in these pages a better connection to Jewish culture, arts and history with articles about and by those contributing to our community. When this magazine was conceived, we wanted to elevate the idea of a traditional museum newsletter to include feature stories that would be of interest to our visitors and supporters. As you peruse these pages not only will you learn about upcoming Breman signature events like Bearing Witness, Historic Jewish Atlanta Tours and the Molly Blank Jewish Concert Series, but you will also read commentary and insights from today’s thought leaders.

Our first issue coincides with our 20th anniversary at the Selig Center and we are quite proud to have Bill Breman on the cover and include an abundance of tributes to our “man of more than two decades” Jarvin Levison. Future issues may highlight performers, survivors, or those that continue to make a difference at the Breman. Please share your thoughts about At The Breman Magazine and send us your ideas for articles and content. Like the Breman Museum, we hope it is a reflection of our community.

It is important to note that this magazine would not be possible without the generous support of Elinor Rosenberg Breman, whose steadfast support of this project has been tremendous. We are also indebted to our Director of Marketing David Schendowich and his editorial team for their tireless efforts in making this magazine a reality.

Enjoy!

Aaron Berger Executive Director

WHEN WE SET OUT TO COMMEMORATE the Breman’s 20th anniversary, we thought of three key facets to our success: a stellar exhibition, a celebratory event, and a substantial fundraising goal. Lisa Brill and her Exhibition Committee did an outstanding job of identifying and recruiting lenders to produce a show that showcases outstanding works of art born of our Jewish community. The Celebration Committee, with our honorary chair Elinor Rosenberg Breman, ably assisted by Margie Stern and over a dozen volunteers, organized a wonderful event that puts an exclamation point on all the Breman has accomplished in the last 20 years. Then there are our Fundraising Co-Chairs Candy and Steve Berman, Sharon and Michael Levison and Ellen and Jack Holland, who not only met our goal, but exceeded it beyond our highest hopes.

While December 3, 2016, is one day in our history, may the positivity and sense of accomplishment we feel tonight continue to motivate us as the Breman continues to make an impact for the next 20 years.

Craig Frankel Board President

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Janice Rothschild Blumberg gives a tour of the Return to Rich’s Breman exhibition.

WHAT’S INSIDE...

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FINDING FAMILY IN THE ARCHIVES

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SHIRLEY BRICKMAN CONNECTS WITH STUDENTS

ARCHITECT BEN HIRSCH POINT OF VIEW

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DEBORAH LIPSTADT TALKS ABOUT ‘DENIAL’

STAFF DIRECTORY AARON BERGER Executive Director LILI BAXTER Director, Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education SHAWN CLEMENTS Visitor Services Coordinator STEFANIE FREINKEL Holocaust Speaker Coordinator JAMES HAYS Director, Exhibitions JEREMY KATZ Director, Cuba Family Archives RACHEL KATZ Director, Membership and Visitor Services RABBI JOE PRASS Jewish Community Engagement Manager JENNIFER REID Group Tour and Volunteer Manager LINDSAY RESNICK Assistant Archivist GHILA SANDERS Director, Community Engagement DAVID SCHENDOWICH Director, Marketing and Communications ISABEL SCHNEIDER Development Coordinator “Ethel Smullian (Kaufman) in a dance costume possibly for Purim”, Atlanta, Georgia, 1921,Gelatin silver print. Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History at The Breman Museum. Sam Smullian Family Papers.

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1984 – 1988

A.J Robinson 1988 – 1990

Betty Jacobson 1990 – 1992

Margaret Weiller 1992 – 1994

PAST PRESIDENTS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jarvin Levison

2016-2017 Elaine Alexander Amy Arogeti Cherie Aviv Candy Berman Judy Bauer Cohen J. Samuel Coolik Marilyn Ginsberg Eckstein Karen Lansky Edlin Leslie Isenberg Evan Kananack Lana Krebs Joslin LeBauer Anita Lynn David Rachelson IJ Rosenberg Jerry Rosenberg Lori Shapiro Carla Silver Norman Zoller Jeannette Zukor EMERITUS Miles Alexander Spring Asher Thomas J. Asher Lois A. Blonder Elinor Rosenberg Breman Laura Dinerman Gail H. Evans Peter Fishman Carole B. Goldberg Benjamin Hirsch S. Jarvin Levison Valerie Needle Carol Nemo A.J. Robinson Jerry Rosenberg Marlene J. Schwartz Joyce Shlesinger Judith G. Taylor Norman Zoller

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Jarvin Levison 1994 – 1997

William A. Schwartz 1997 – 1999

Laura Z. Dinerman 1999 – 2002

Thomas J. Asher 2002 – 2004

Carole Goldberg 2005 – 2006

Valerie Needle 2006 – 2008

Tom Asher 2008 – 2009

Norman Zoller 2010 – 2011

Joyce Shlesinger and Spring Asher 2011 – 2013

Jerry Rosenberg 2014 – 2015

Craig Frankel 2015 – Present

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Atlanta Collects Exhibition Opens at the Breman

BY KEVIN MADIGAN

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DR. WILLIAM UNDERWOOD EILAND knows a thing or

The theme of the show is collecting in itself, “rather than

two about art. A thirty-year veteran of the national art

illustrating a particular period or style or technique, or even

scene, Eiland heads the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens

the artist himself or herself,” Eiland, the guest curator, said.

and was chosen by Breman Museum Executive Director

“It’s more about the collecting patterns of the individuals

Aaron Berger as curator of the exhibition Atlanta Collects:

and the works that best represent their interests, their pas-

Treasures From Atlanta’s Private Collectors.

sions, their knowledge.”

“We are incredibly fortunate to have his insightful eye

Eiland hopes Atlanta Collects will encourage attendees to

guiding this exhibition,” said

start their own collections,

Berger, calling Eiland “one of

and that they will “see art as

the most knowledgeable, ca-

something

pable and creative curatorial

their lives, makes them more

minds in the United States.

human, and can lead them

His involvement added integ-

into new paths of experience.”

that

brightens

rity and gravitas, and he has an appreciation of all peri-

The art on display is a lesson in

ods, genres, and media when

art history and includes paint-

it comes to art. That is not an

ings,

easy combination to find.”

drawings, prints, and glass.

Atlanta Collects, to be shown

James Hays, Director of Ex-

in two parts, consists of

hibitions at the Breman, has

artwork owned by private

designed a downloadable

collectors and features sel-

Atlanta Collects guide for

dom-seen works by Edgar

smartphones to be found on

Degas, Wassily Kandinsky,

the museum’s website. “This

Pablo

Edouard

guide explains several details

Picasso,

sculpture,

porcelain,

Hartley,

about each piece, and com-

Mary Cassatt, Andrew Wyeth

pares and contrasts various

and many others. The first

styles of art contained within

part opens Dec. 5, 2016 and

the room,” he said.

Manet,

Marsden

runs through Feb. 26, 2017, with art from the 1800s until

Berger is already planning

the end of the 20th century.

further explorations of Atlanta Collects. “I see many such exhibitions in our future, each with a different theme. I would like to stage Young Atlanta Collects and present collectors under the age of 45 so

The second phase, showcasing works created after 2000, takes place from March 12 until June 11, 2017.

Berger noted that Atlanta Collects draws from local res-

visitors can get an idea of what is being collected by the

idents, “meaning visitors to the exhibition will receive a

next generation. Of course, Atlanta Collects Judaica would

glimpse into our vibrant Jewish community.”

be historical and meaningful as well, and an Atlanta Collects

Tchotchkes would be fun!” 

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MY APPRECIATION RUNS DEEP FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE AND ARE STILL DOING FOR THE BREMAN FAMILY. YOUR ADVICE AND SUPPORT TO BILL BREMEN DURING THE FOUNDING YEARS IS DEARLY CHERISHED. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR RECOGNITION. I CONSIDER IT A REAL PLEASURE TO CALL YOU MY FRIEND.

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Jane Leavey Remembers

BY JANE LEAVEY

we created and sponsored exhibitions and programs in various venues throughout Atlanta.

IT HAS BEEN TWENTY YEARS since Elinor and Bill Breman cut the ribbon marking the Grand Opening of The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in its new home at the Selig Center.

In 1994, our archives was strong enough to support an exhibition about the Jewish experience in Atlanta. We were invited to display Creating Community: The Jews of Atlanta from 1845 to the Present at the Atlanta History Center. During the eighteen month Creating Community was there, Bill Breman announced a major gift earmarked for a Jewish museum, and the Selig family approached Federation and offered the building at Spring and 18th Streets.

The Breman Museum finally had a home and opened to the public in June of 1996.

The museum, however, actually had its beginnings nearly thirteen years earlier in 1983, when for the first time, the Atlanta Jewish community hosted the General Assembly, a national meeting that annually brings together thousands of volunteers and professional leaders from Jewish communities across North America and throughout the world. 1983 also marked the semiquincentennial of the founding of the Georgia colony and the arrival of its first Jewish settlers.

During the next fifteen years, until my retirement in 2011, the highlights included a talented, dedicated staff who worked to create all our original exhibitions: Where

In conjunction with the GA, the Federation, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, created an exhibition entitled Jews and Georgians: A Meeting of Cultures, 1733-1983, displayed at Emory University’s Schatten Gallery.

the Wild Things are: Maurice Sendak in His Own Words and Pictures; ZAP! POW! BAM! The Golden Age of Comic Books 1938-1950; Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case Revisited; Dr. Seuss Goes to War… and more.

Jews and Georgians brought together historical material

illuminating the Jewish experience in Georgia, but with the exhibition’s close, there was no existing historical society or archive that could preserve and interpret it. With encouragement from the Federation’s visionary executive director, David Sarnat, I wrote the first proposal for a Jewish heritage museum. The Federation’s board passed the proposal ‘in concept,’ and over the course of the next eleven years, allowed us to create the components of that proposal - a Museum Without Walls.

With deep appreciation to Jarvin, and to all the presidents with whom I had the honor to serve – thank you for the wonderful memories! 

In 1985, with financial support from Erwin Zaban, volunteer archivist Sandy Berman established the Jewish Community Archives. In 1986, working with Eternal-Life Hemshech, the organization of Holocaust survivors, the Zachor Holocaust Resource Center, designed by architect and Holocaust survivor Benjamin Hirsch, opened in a donated space on the lower level of the Atlanta Jewish Community Center’s Peachtree building, and we launched a state-wide Holocaust education program, group tours and a speakers’ bureau of Holocaust survivors and children of survivors. In 1989, we joined the American Jewish Committee and the National Council of Jewish Women’s ongoing oral history project, and throughout these years,

Jane Leavey, Founding Breman Executive Director , at the Sendak exhibition

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Jarvin Levison Honored for Decades of Dedication

BY KEVIN MADIGAN ATTORNEY JARVIN LEVISON HAS BEEN PART of the Breman Museum since before it even opened.

A close friend of founder William Breman and his wife Elinor, Levison was instrumental in helping them create the museum, and he is being honored at a sold-out celebratory event on Dec. 3 commemorating the Breman’s 20th anniversary.

“I was fascinated with what the museum could become,” Levison said in an interview. “Once you get involved with something of that nature, you don’t just walk away.”

Levison, a perennial history buff, said it’s important for people to have access to what happened in the past “because it impacts what’s happening today and will happen tomorrow.” The museum is a celebration of life, not victimhood, he said, adding that “Jewish people are survivors; there are cartoonists, composers, physicians, even a few billionaires.”

Levison feels the museum is at a point where it can have a real impact on Jews and non-Jews in Atlanta. “I give a great deal of credit to Bill and Elinor Breman. It’s been a great experience. He would be very proud of what has been accomplished.”

So how does Levison feel about being honored by the Breman? “For someone who was here at the beginning, I feel great about it,” he said. 

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Founding Archivist Saves History of Jewish Life

BY SANDY BERMAN

AS ANY ARCHIVIST CAN PROBABLY ATTEST TO we are natural born collectors, savers of history, even our own. I still have the original contract I signed where I agreed to act as an archival consultant for the Atlanta Jewish Federation. The year was 1985. David Sarnat, the Federation’s director, had called over to the Atlanta History Center asking if there was anyone who could come and assess some “stuff” that had been left with the Federation at the conclusion of a temporary exhibition on Jewish life in Georgia held at the Schatten Gallery at Emory University. David, a history enthusiast, recognized the importance of the material and wanted a way to preserve it. At the time I was volunteering at the Atlanta History Center and since I was Jewish and an archivist I fit the bill and off I went.

The consultancy position eventually turned into a job at the Federation and fell under the purview of Special Project’s Director Jane Leavey. Under Jane’s leadership the archives became one component of the “very special project” that she had in mind: the creation of an actual museum. Initially the archive was dedicated to collecting organizational records, personal and family papers and photographs that would document and preserve the rich history of Jewish life in Atlanta. As the size of the collection grew the archive would move from a closet to larger and larger offices within the Federation building on Peachtree Street. When an office was no longer an option, David had a cement block structure added to the back of the building.

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present home at the Selig Center, as part of the newly founded Breman Museum.

With new space, and funding provided by the Ida Pearle and Joseph Cuba family the board of the museum agreed that we could also begin collecting and completing oral histories outside of Atlanta proper and in the small towns throughout the states of Georgia and eventually Alabama.

Today, the Cuba Archives contains one of the most comprehensive collections of resources dedicated to the history of Jewish life in the South. A quick perusal of its holdings will lead the researcher to a vast array of subjects. The collection includes letters and diaries of Jewish Civil War soldiers; trial materials, personal correspondence, and photographs relating to the Leo Frank Case; and files relating to Jewish participation and reticence to participate in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. There are oral histories from the likes of Sam Massell, Atlanta’s only Jewish mayor, from Judge Aaron Cohn of Columbus who served as a juvenile court judge for forty-six years, and from Helen Alexander one of five Jewish women who sponsored the Speech and Hearing Clinic in Atlanta so that hearing impaired Black children would have a place to go to school.

As the founding Archivist of the Breman Museum I could not be prouder to have been a part of its creation, growth and lasting legacy to the community.

Savannah Jewish Archives at the Breman Museum

SAVANNAH’S JEWISH HISTORY is very different to Atlanta’s. Our cultural and religious history is nearly as old as the colony of Georgia. The first Jewish settlers disembarked from the ship William and Mary in July 1733, just five months after General James Oglethorpe arrived with the first colonists and founded the city of Savannah. A Jewish community has prospered here ever since.

When the time came to find a new home for the Savannah Jewish Archives, we selected the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History at the Breman Museum. We recognized the Breman and the SJA had a common mission which is to tell the stories of Jewish life in Georgia.

BY KAYE KOLE

We are delighted that the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History at the Breman Museum is the new home of the Savannah Jewish Archives. The decision did not come easily as the Savannah Jewish Archives committee considered other notable academic institutions, but we knew that our community’s history fitted best with the Breman Museum’s mission to tell the story of Jewish life in Georgia.

In just over a year, the Breman Museum has grown the collection by adding significant items such as a penand-ink sketch by famed Georgia artist Wilbur Kurtz and a World War I helmet worn by a Jewish Savannahian, increased research requests four times over, processed roughly half of the manuscript collections, and digitized a large collection of scrapbooks.

To support the bright future of the Savannah Jewish Archives at the Breman Museum, we have established the Savannah Jewish Archives Fund to address expenses related to the preservation, processing, digitization, dissemination, promotion, and growth of the collection.

We hope you will consider supporting this noteworthy cause as there is still much work to be done. Jewish life in Georgia began in Savannah and many families in Atlanta have Savannah roots. This history is a significant part of Jewish life in the American South. Help us save, preserve, and tell this amazing story.

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MY THOUGHTS ON THE PLAY

BY JANICE ROTHSCHILD BLUMBERG

WHAT DID I THINK OF THE READING? DAYENU! It would have been enough to know that a play was being written about the congregation where I’ve belonged all my life, where my great-grandfather was rabbi in the 19th century and where my late husband was senior rabbi in the 20th.

Add to that the thrill of learning that the plot would focus on an event centering largely on my husband and to a lesser degree on me.

Dayenu? Of course dayenu. It would have been enough of an ego trip to last a lifetime.

But it doesn’t end there. For a native Atlantan once active on stage and off with Theater Atlanta, which preceded the Alliance and began as community theater; for someone who once wrote and directed shows for local Jewish organizations and then became a historian focused on Southern Jewish history; and to hear oneself portrayed by an actress in a documentary drama speaking words which she herself wrote or spoke was, to say the least, overwhelming.

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THE TEMPLE BOMBING Inspired by the book The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene Written & Directed by Jimmy Maize Developed in association with Tectonic Theater Project and The Temple Performance Dates: February 22 – March 12, 2017 Location: The Alliance Theatre On October 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew

gamut from bitter memories to soaring pride. Those were

through the wall of Atlanta’s oldest synagogue.

personal reactions, but the play promises that to a public

Following 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education

audience as well. Even more, it captures the universal as-

Supreme Court decision, Rabbi Rothschild of The

pect of what happened to us in Atlanta and at The Temple,

Temple had become a public advocate for the

much in the spirit of what Alfred Uhry achieved with the

progress of Civil Rights. The explosion and nation-

story of his grandmother and her driver in Driving Miss

al support for The Temple community bolstered

Daisy. Both works evoke a multidimensional view of life as

Atlanta city leaders’ resolve to investigate and

we lived it then in the changing South.

prosecute the crime, paving the way for dramatic social change.

Our Temple was bombed in the post-McCarthy period The Temple Bombing, inspired by the award-win-

when hate groups were coming out from under the rocks

ning book The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay

all across America. Its significance, artfully articulated by

Greene, is a world premiere presented on the

playwright/director Jimmy Maize, goes far beyond an-

occasion of The Temple’s 150th anniversary.

ti-Semitism and racism to illuminate issues of character, law enforcement, religious diversity, and how Atlanta grew

This theatricalization celebrates a city that came

from 1913 to become truthfully the city too busy to hate.

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One final personal reaction: the very best aspect of the play

years after that fateful day.

for me - as I believe it will be for all who knew Rabbi Jack Rothschild - is that it depicts his quick, relevant, life-saving

The Temple Bombing is developed in association

(for us) sense of humor. Like him, it makes you laugh as well

with Tectonic Theater Project of New York and The

as think. 

Temple.

Author Janice Rothschild Blumberg is the widow of Jacob Rothschild, rabbi at The Temple when it was bombed in 1958.

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Exhibition Chair Thrives on Glass Art

BY KEVIN MADIGAN ART COLLECTOR LISA BRILL is fond of glass, and she has lent one of her favorite pieces to Atlanta Collects.

“It’s a piece made by Richard Jolley, from Nashville. It kind of represents the world, mankind. It’s a colorful pedestal piece,” she said in a phone interview. “We collect a lot of his work, and have a pretty extensive collection. He’s not just a friend but a true world-class artist, and is one of the few people I know who makes his own glass, his own colors.”

Brill and her husband Ron collect contemporary studio art glass, as she calls it, and they have one of the country’s largest collections. She said that what appeals to her about Jolley’s work is his constant search for something new. “He doesn’t get stuck in a period or a style just because it’s selling well; he always moves on, and is representative of what’s going on in the world.”

She’s more than a lender to the exhibition, though. As Chair of the Atlanta Collects Committee, Brill has been extensively involved in putting it all together.

“It’s a wonderful committee of phenomenal collectors who serve on

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it with me. We were hoping to get enough work by enough collectors for a show, and this community has really come out strong and clear and loud. We are blessed to have so many incredible collectors.”

A big part of her job was tracking down great art. “They have all been so generous about allowing us to show their collections. I think the Jewish community contributes hugely to the arts and this is a sampling of the some of the best - better than in some of the museums of the world, and it’s all in one place. This has never been done before. We are unveiling some art we didn’t even know existed here. It’s very exciting.”

Brill, a longtime fan of the Breman Museum, added, “I’m a supporter.

It’s a great resource in our community. People care about the Breman and this exhibition is moving the museum up to the next level.” 

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Twenty Things to do at the Breman Museum

BY KEVIN MADIGAN

THERE IS A LOT GOING ON AT THE BREMAN, SO WITH THE MUSEUM’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY IN MIND, WE PRESENT 20 OPTIONS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT: 1 Experience Atlanta Collects, a new two-part exhibition opening in December 2016 that gathers original art from private collections.

Among the many artists represented are Degas, Picasso, Manet, Hartley, Kandinsky, Cassatt, and Wyeth. The first portion opens Dec.

5, 2016 and runs through Feb. 26, 2017 with art from the 1800s until the end of the 20th century. The second phase has works created after 2000 and runs from March 12 until June 11, 2017.

2 Bearing Witness: Holocaust

Survivors Tell Their Remarkable Story. The 2017 schedule begins with Helen Weingarten (Romania) on Jan. 8. She narrowly escaped death at Auschwitz when she and other women were redirected from the gas chambers to Germany for slave labor. Free admission to all Bearing Witness programs in 2017 made possible by the Sara Giles Moore Foundation.

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Carole King who was famous at first for writing hits for others, and then became a household name performing her songs. Tony Award Nominee Liz Callaway will lead this tribute on Jan. 22, 2017.

4 Take a tour of the High Museum on Jan. 25, 2017 and see the Jewish thread in its permanent collection, ranging from biblical themes to featured Jewish artists.

This is part of our Historic Jewish Atlanta Tours.

7 Now you can carry the history of Jewish Atlanta around in your pocket. Download the Historic Jewish Atlanta app for free to your smartphone or tablet. No other city in the country has an app exclusively devoted to its Jewish history.

8 Do you want to enhance your knowledge about 1933-1945 Europe? If so, join the Breman Book Group which meets once a month from September through May. Being a Breman member is the only requirement.

5 Eighteen Artifacts is a powerful display that depicts the history and legacy of Jews in Atlanta, with artifacts, oral histories and images such as fragments from the 1958 Temple bombing and a letter to museum founder William Breman from Dr. Martin Luther King.

6 Find your roots at the Breman!

The museum is home to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia which encourages research and promotes awareness about the ease of tracing the Jewish community’s own ancestry.

related to our present, past, and future exhibitions.

11 Celebrate Black History Month with the Breman and join us for our second annual Civil Rights Bus Tour, on Feb. 22 or Feb. 26, 2017, and discover the role Jewish institutions played in the fight for integration. This is a one-ofa-kind exploration of the Jewish connection to Atlanta’s Civil Rights Movement.

12 Become a docent, or tour guide, at the Breman. If you’re interested in history, are comfortable with public speaking and can volunteer on some weekdays, come join us!

A five-week training course will get you more than ready.

9 Bearing Witness, on Feb. 19, 2017, features well-known architect Ben Hirsch (Germany) who designed the Absence of Humanity:

The Holocaust Years: 1933-1945

exhibition. Hirsch was just six years old when he witnessed the ravages of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” in his hometown of Frankfurt.

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13 Visit Absence of Humanity: The Holocaust Years, 1933-1945. This permanent exhibition features historic photographs, personal memorabilia, family documents, and videotaped interviews with Atlanta-area survivors.

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19 Survivor Eugen Schoenfeld (Hungary) speaks at the museum on May 7, 2017 as part of the Bearing Witness series. He is the author of My Reconstructed Life who became Professor of Sociology at Georgia State University, and will share his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz, Warsaw, Dachau and Muehldorf during World War II.

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Kind of Wonderful: Rock Music from 1956-1966, on March 19, 2017. The 1950s and 60s were a seminal time in American popular music. This show, another in the Molly Blank series, features songs as well as amusing and poignant anecdotes showing how Jews participated in a major cultural movement.

harsh conditions and a lengthy death march. As an orphan, he was sent to England, Ireland and ultimately the United States.

16 Join Eternal-Life Hemshech, JFGA and the Breman Museum for the 52nd annual community-wide Yom HaShoah commemoration held at Memorial to the Six Million at Greenwood Cemetery on April 23, 2017. To quote Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, “To listen to a witness is to become a witness.”

17 Delve into the Breman’s extensive Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History and its many manuscripts, photographs, artifacts, textiles, and oral histories. The archives include family papers, business and organizational records, rabbis’ papers, and synagogue documents.

15 Murray Lynn (Hungary), a teenage survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, will address the Bearing Witness audience on March 5, 2017. His mother and brothers were killed on arrival, but Lynn persevered despite

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20 As part of the Molly Blank Jewish Concert Series, NPR’s hit radio show From the Top, hosted by Christopher O’Riley, will broadcast from the Breman on May 21, 2017.This concert will showcase America’s young classical musicians and prodigies, ages 8-18, featuring Jewish performers and composers.

Elinor Breman Looks Back 20 Years Later

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“THEY DON’T MAKE THEM LIKE THAT ANYMORE,” said Elinor Rosenberg Breman, speaking about her late husband William Breman, founder of the famous museum in Atlanta that bears his name.

During an afternoon at her Buckhead home, Breman recalled what made her husband the man he was.

“Bill was unusual in that he was a very simple, quiet, unselfish, passionate, loving, caring man. What is that saying, ‘hand of steel in a velvet glove?’ He didn’t talk much, but when he did people listened to him,” she said.

The 20th anniversary of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum is being commemorated with a celebration on Dec. 3 honoring attorney Jarvin Levison. “I can’t come to the event; I’m heartbroken about it. I’m 94 and I’ve got health issues, but I’ll be there in spirit,” Breman said, adding that she is writing a speech for the occasion to be given by her son, Jerry Rosenberg. Bill Breman’s daughter, Carol Nemo, will also make remarks, “and represent her father, as it should be.”

Levison and the Bremans go back a long way. “We have been friends since Bill introduced us. He’s been my adviser, mentor - very supportive, kind and helpful to me. He loved Bill, and Bill loved him. Jarvin deserves this honor. He was Bill’s lawyer and is my executive trustee, and was the first president (of the museum).”

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new exhibition Atlanta Collects: Treasures From Atlanta’s Private Collectors, which will run through June, 2017.

“This art collection is a huge undertaking,” she said. “We got, from what I understand, an Andrew Wyeth, a Picasso... so I’m thrilled. It should be a wing-ding of an affair.”

Breman, an Atlanta Symphony Orchestra board member who helped start the Alliance Theater, said she was always involved in the arts. “It’s very important to me. I wanted to be a journalist - never got to do it. I always loved to write, loved poetry, music, theatre, loved to paint, took art history. I got Bill interested in art.”

Atlanta Collects marks a shift of the museum’s focus towards more arts and culture, Breman explained.

“They’re interested in the Holocaust – it should be there – but I think there is room for art and culture, as well.”

She said the annual Molly Blank Jewish Concert Series is “wonderful” and that for her husband’s 90th birthday, she gave the museum a Steinway piano in his honor, “because I wanted music there.”

Breman said marrying her husband and helping him launch the museum “were two of the highlights of my life. I had great pride in what he was doing for the community. I was in on the groundbreaking of the museum and I’m carrying on the legacy. In the future, I see a free-standing museum with a proper space and a larger membership, and more interest.” 

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MY GRANDMOTHER HELEN HERMAN died when I was in middle school, and I lost my grandfather Emanuel Herman when I was 19. They were both survivors.

There’s an image of my father in the streets of Amsterdam as a toddler, images of my grandparents just after they were married, and an image of my grandfather’s brother, Oscar (my father’s namesake originally), who perished at Treblinka.

Thanks to the Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, I’ve had the opportunity to learn more about their stories, the details of which I worried had been lost forever.

I find comfort in the smiles on my grandparents’ faces, knowing that after everything they went through, they found some happiness still. They had both been married before the war, and both had children and spouses that they’d lost.

Like so many third-generation descendants of Holocaust survivors, I grew up in the immense shadow of an atrocity both unknowable and intensely personal. I remember learning about World War II and reading The Diary of Anne Frank in elementary school, knowing that somewhere in the ether lay the stories of so many of my relatives.

They met each other and got married in September 1946, and almost a year later my father was born in Bamberg, Germany. From there they moved to Amsterdam, then to the United States. They came to Atlanta and opened a grocery store in the English Avenue neighborhood, an African-American community. They left persecution in Europe to arrive in a city struggling for racial equality.

I also remember seeing the tattoo on my grandfather’s forearm and being told that my sister and I couldn’t have bunk beds because they would trigger bad memories. Among my family, the topic of “the war” was not up for discussion.

But recently I found answers to so many of the questions I’ve pondered for so long.

I’ve heard stories about the grocery store my whole life.

When they needed to expand the store, my grandparents just built a bigger one around the current one so that they could continue to work.

The Emanuel Herman Family Papers are a collection of photographs of my family housed in the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History at the Breman. Seeing these images for the first time gave me a glimpse of what my grandparents’ lives were like in a way that the anec-

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of the Breman’s efforts, I now have concrete images to associate with those stories.

While I haven’t heard my grandfather’s voice in over 15 years, as I read this transcript, it felt as if we were finally able to have the conversation I’ve thought about my whole life.

I stumbled upon these images from an embarrassingly simple starting point: a Google search. I’m a teacher at the Weber School, and last fall I researched the migration of Jewish refugees for a grant to travel to the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. As I poured over pictures of refugees, I began to wonder if in some corner of the internet I might find clues about my own family.

I am eternally grateful for the efforts of those who are committed to making sure the world never forgets. The Breman has helped me understand my family’s story and preserved it for generations to come.

For some reason, it had never occurred to me to search my grandparents’ names. When I did, an entry in the archive at the Breman was the first link that showed up.

HISTORY EDUCATION The photographs and interview transcript in the Breman archives opened Leigh Herman’s eyes to her grandfather’s thoughts about the camps and the conditions there, as well as showed her what her great-uncle Oscar looked like.

After contacting the archives’ curator, Jeremy Katz, I learned that my grandfather donated the five images to the museum

She also learned that: •Emanuel Herman grew up in Tomaszów, Poland.

in 1996 (the year my grandmother died). I do wonder why he never told us about the photos. Maybe he wanted to, and maybe he even tried. It was not easy to talk about.

•He had five siblings and worked as a tailor there.

•He survived five concentration camps, including several years at Auschwitz.

•The address of the Helen and Emanuel Herman’s store, H and E Grocery, was 533 Griffin St., a building that still exists more than 60 years later. 

This summer, miraculously, a new entry showed up when I again searched my grandfather’s name in the archives. In 2000, a woman named Grace Hawthorne interviewed him about his experiences in the Holocaust, and the Breman obtained a transcript. I never imagined something like it could exist. Around me, my grandfather never even said the word “Auschwitz,” let alone talk to me about his time there.

This article originally appeared in the Atlanta Jewish Times and is used by permission.

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BY KEVIN MADIGAN SHIRLEY BRICKMAN HAS BEEN a docent at the Breman since its inception, and she specializes in taking schoolchildren around the exhibition Absence of Humanity: The Holocaust Years 1933-1945.

“I want to open the eyes, the ears, the minds and the hearts of these children and adults but especially children - coming through the exhibition, hoping they will leave here with something special,” she said.

“The mission is to educate as many people as possible and learn something they hadn’t learned before, then take the message home and share it. It’s important to me because I can see how it changes the minds of kids.”

The tour lasts a very intense 45 minutes, she said, and her goal is to make her young visitors comprehend the period of the Holocaust without placing an undue burden on them.

“Hopefully they feel it in their hearts and have a better understanding of it,” she said.

“You try to compare their lives to this, and say ‘what would you do, how would you feel, how would you react?’”

Brickman is immensely proud of the museum where she has spent much of her life. “There are all sorts of events here,” she concluded. “It’s very exciting place; we do a lot of good here.” 

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Architect Ben Hirsch Draws on Past Experience

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“The ceremony was the closest thing to closure in lieu of a funeral for my mother, father, brother and sister, and it was the only closure I could get. I have no idea where they are, so that was very important for me.”

BEN HIRSCH, A POPULAR SPEAKER at the Breman Museum, is a renowned architect who designed its Absence of Humanity: The Holocaust Years: 1933-1945 exhibition as well as the Memorial to the Six Million in Atlanta’s Greenwood Cemetery. Monuments, homes and institutions around the world bear his name.

Hirsch lamented the Breman Museum is the best kept secret in town. “Not enough people are taking advantage of it,” he said, but “they appreciate it and when they come, they love it.”

The inspiration for Absence of Humanity came from personal experience. A survivor of the Holocaust, Hirsch recalled returning to his native Germany recently to reconcile his past and the loss of his family during the war.

What would Hirsch like to see happen in the future with his exhibition? “If I had the ability, I would add more things to it. We’ve got about 3,000 square feet. If you look at the one in Washington, DC, they’ve got a hundred times that.

You work with what you’ve got and you do the best you can.”

“There is a program in Germany to install stolpersteine, “stepping or stumbling stones” commemorating Jewish Holocaust victims in front of the houses they had lived in,” Hirsch said. “These stones are concrete cubes topped by a brass plate with the victims’ names engraved on them.”

Hirsch is currently working on his third book and completed another design project earlier this year. He is scheduled to appear at the Breman on Feb. 19, 2017 as part of the Bearing Witness program, after which he will sign copies of his two previous books. He added, “They’re both available from the Breman Museum Store!” 

In November of 2010, just two days after undergoing heart surgery, Hirsch and his wife went to Frankfurt to attend the installation of four stolpersteine in the sidewalk in front of his family’s home.

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Survivor Henry Birnbrey Fulfills His Obligation

HENRY BIRNBREY GOT OUT OF GERMANY as a teenager in March of 1938, leaving his parents behind. He never saw them again.

“They didn’t survive,” he said during an interview at the Breman. His father was arrested in November that year and succumbed to wounds suffered during his detention.

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As a Bearing Witness speaker, Birnbrey said he is fulfilling an obligation to say what happened, even though he initially wanted to just forget all about it. “When we’re gone, there is no one to tell these stories. There will be no witnesses; it cannot be continued forever.”

Birnbrey lauded the museum’s Summer Institute on Teaching the Holocaust program that teaches educators how to present the Holocaust to students. “The Breman facilitates this, and I get a lot of satisfaction from it.” He said education serves an important function at the museum and brings in more visitors than anything else.

Birnbrey continues to talk about the war and its aftermath to counteract Holocaust deniers “who seem to increase in numbers,” he said. “We have leaders who preach hate - it’s still happening.”

He gauges his success as a speaker by the questions he gets asked from the audience. “I keep adding experiences as I go along.” 

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ATB: TELL US ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE AS PRESIDENT. ROSENBERG: It was an extremely satisfying experience. It gave me greater insight into the museum, its workings and all the positives the museum is doing – which is much more than I ever knew.

ATB: WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO HAVE A JEWISH MUSEUM IN ATLANTA?

Rosenberg: 20th Anniversary Speaks Volumes

ROSENBERG: Celebrating our 20th anniversary speaks volumes for the need to have a Jewish Heritage and Holocaust museum in Atlanta. The Breman teaches a great deal but beyond that the museum gives us a platform to do so many things for both the Jewish and non-Jewish community in Atlanta. Bearing Witness is a perfect example – it attracts people who are not connected to Jewish life and educates them on history.

ATB: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BREMAN PROGRAM, EVENT, OR EXHIBITION? ROSENBERG: The Rich’s exhibition moved us to a different level. It candidly wouldn’t have happened if there hadn’t been someone at the wheel who could create such a community-oriented show. Without Arthur Blank’s mother’s support, the Molly Blank Jewish Concert Series would never have happened. That series just gets better with age and I hope it will continue to be with us for a very long time. Finally, the Atlanta Collects exhibition. I’ll admit, when this idea was first proposed, I had doubts about how to pull all of this together but now I see it as the first of its kind. It is innovative and spot-on. For the public, it’s the opportunity to see things they would never see exhibited together in a million years, and it pays tribute to our Jewish community in the process.

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BY KEVIN MADIGAN EMORY PROFESSOR AND HISTORIAN DEBORAH LIPSTADT was sued for libel by British writer David Irving for statements she made about him in her book Denying the Holocaust. Also named in the suit was Penguin Books, her publisher.

In the book, Lipstadt characterized Irving as a Holocaust denier, which he claimed was false. The trial was held in England, where libel law puts the burden of proof on the defendant as opposed to the plaintiff. She nevertheless won the case after proving her allegations in court.

Lipstadt recounted the story in History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier; the book has now been turned into a film starring Rachel Weisz in the main role.

TELL US ABOUT SEEING YOURSELF AND HAVING YOUR DEEPLY PERSONAL STORY PORTRAYED ON THE BIG SCREEN? It was an amazing experience. It was an out of body experience to see yourself portrayed by someone as talented as Rachel Weisz and work with such a talented director and crew. But what really excites me is that the story and the implications of the story will be in the hands of many, many people who would not have known about it unless there had been a major motion picture made. In the end, not only is it a first rate production, but it can also do some good.

AS WE CONTINUE TO LOSE THE EYEWITNESS GENERATION, IS HOLOCAUST DENIAL A BIGGER PROBLEM TODAY? I don’t think that is a factor one way or another. One thing that my trial proved is that the testimony of Survivors is not needed to prove the Holocaust took place. We did not have the testimony of one survivor during my trial. It was the facts and the documents that defended the truth. The deniers are going to be around but the documents exist to combat that.

WHAT CAN PEOPLE DO TODAY TO COMBAT HOLOCAUST DENIAL? Know the facts – know the information! Not just to combat denial but to educate yourself on the truth. Educate yourself!

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20th Anniversary Celebration SPONSORS VISIONARIES Carol and Bob Nemo LEADERS The Breman Foundation The Jarvin Levison Family GUARDIANS Anonymous Elinor Rosenberg Breman James Breman Chatham Valley Foundation Dulcy and Jerry Rosenberg Marlene J. Schwartz BENEFACTORS Candy and Steve Berman Lisa and Ron Brill Cohen-Kogon Families Ann and Jay Davis Richard L. Prochnow The Robinson Family Teddi Sandford Louis and Amy Taratoot and Family Taylor Family Fund Judith and Mark Taylor Zaban Foundation Judy Zaban Carol and Larry Cooper Laura and Marshall Dinerman Sara and Robert Franco AMBASSADORS Anonymous Sandra Adair Andree and Marc Frost Andrew Adair & Douglas Adair Elaine and Miles Alexander Spring and Tom Asher

Blaine Family Foundation Shirley Blaine, Sara and Mendel Rotenberg Barbara McRee & Wendy Owens Arthur Blank Family Foundation Lois Blonder Shirley and Perry Brickman The Cumberland Trust Laura and Marshall Dinerman Marilyn and Sam Eckstein Gail H. Evans Jana Eplan & Craig Frankel Georgia Health Foundation Bobbie and Jon Golden Doris and Martin Goldstein Halpern-Oppenheimer Family Foundation Ellen and Jack Holland Pearlann and Jerry Horowitz London-Rinzler Family Sonia and Murray Lynn Brenda and Leon Novak The Paradies Family Marc and Robin Pollack Barbara Weinberg Riff Phyllis and Sidney Rodbell Joyce and Henry Schwob SUSTAINERS Barbara B. & Ronald Davis Balser David Kuniansky Jackie and Anthony Montag Ronit Walker & Matt Bronfman FRIENDS Penny Berk Marshall and Leslie Bloom Elaine and Jerry Blumenthal Frances Bunzl and Suzanne Wilner AT THE BREMAN

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Joyce and Irving Shlesinger Phyllis and Stanley Slutzky Stanley Srochi Susan Stern Halina and Aleksander Szlam

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In honor of Elaine Alexander Lois Blonder Shirley and Perry Brickman

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Johanna, David and Isabelle Skid Rosalind Taranto

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Elaine and Jerry Blumenthal Shirley and Perry Brickman Judy Cohen Doris and Martin Goldstein Alice Kaplan Rosalind Taranto

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