2023-2024 GenShoah SWFL programs

By Shelley Lieb and Ida Margolis

Zoog Mir in Yiddish –November 2023April 2024

Held the third Sunday each month, November 2023-April 2024, 3:305 p.m. at the Holocaust Museum; limit 20 people, RSVP required to attend: hmcec.org (special events)

Annual GenShoah member hors d’oeuvres potluck gathering

Dec. 10, 5 p.m.; Location TBD; limited attendance, RSVP required to attend: Shirley Besikof, shirleybesikof@gmail.com

Open House/New Member Reception

This event for all GenShoah members will be held Jan. 26, 10 a.m.; Holocaust Museum; RSVP required to attend: hmcec.org (special events).

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jan. 26, 2024, 1-3 p.m. at the Holocaust Museum; complimentary admission

Jan. 26, 2024, 2 p.m., special program; RSVP required for both: hmcec.org (special events)

"Our Stories" GenShoah member get-together

Feb. 4, 1 p.m.; Location TBD; limited attendance, RSVP required to attend: Rene Geist, rene@geistgroup.com

Genealogy workshops

Feb. 25 and April 7, 1 p.m.; Location TBD; limited attendance, RSVP required to attend: Shelley Lieb, liebro@gmail.com

“They Were Children: Rescue as Resistance” exhibit

March 3, 10 a.m.; FGCU Archives; RSVP required to attend: Shelley Lieb, liebro@ gmail.com

Growing Up Sephardic in an Ashkenazi World by Sam Varsano

Wednesday, March 13, 2 p.m.; Holocaust Museum; RSVP required to attend: hmcec.org (special events)

Yom HaShoah Commemoration

May 5, 4 p.m. at Nina Iser Jewish Cultural Center; RSVP requested: www. jewishnaples.org

Pre-event reception for GenShoah SWFL and survivors at 3 p.m.

Possible book discussions

Locations/dates/times TBD based on interest. Contact Estelle Kafer at ekafer520@gmail.com.

“They Were Children: Rescue as Resistance”

This special Florida Gulf Coast University Library exhibition depicts the story of the

Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), an organization of ordinary people who did the extraordinary by smuggling Jewish children across the border to Switzerland from 1942-1945.

Paris' Mémorial de la Shoah, Œuvre de Secours Aux Enfants Archives and Naples Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center have graciously loaned artifacts and photographs to the University Archives and Special Collections for this exhibition.

The exhibit opens Nov. 1. GenShoah SWFL has a special tour arranged for Sunday, March 3 at 10 a.m. Register by sending an email to liebro@gmail.com.

Elliot Katz Lecture Series

Dec. 1 – “Hitler’s Jewish Princess;” Dec. 15 – “The Farhud.” Presentations at 10-11:30 a.m. with Q&A to follow at Nina Iser Jewish Cultural Center. Individual tickets $30 pp. To register, go to https://jfgn.regfox.com/elliot-katz-li.

March of the living

The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is sponsoring a “March of the Living” delegation designed for 2G families May 2-9, 2024 in Poland. To sign up for an informational session or for more details, contact Michael Morgenstern at 323-456-5083 or michael@hmla.org.

Yiddish Alive

Attendees of this program range from those who have some understanding of Yiddish to those who speak it fluently. We try to speak as much Yiddish as possible but do translate a lot for those less familiar. Zooms on alternate Mondays. Contact Michael Mills at millsms1@ gmail.com, 513-673-9001 or https:// fjmc.org/yiddish-alive-affinity-group.

(Thank you, Sol Awend.)

Jewish neighborhoods series

As part of the Yiddish Book Center’s 2023 Decade of Discovery, Yiddish Around the World, memories of Jewish life from Jewish neighborhoods from Montreal to Melbourne have been compiled. Visit https://www.yiddishbookcenter. org/language-literature-culture/wexleroral-history-project-films-features-news/ features/jewish-neighborhoods for more information and access to interviews.

(Thank you, Dorothy Schwebel.)