The Virginia Holocaust Museum Newsletter Volume 18, Number 1 Summer 2018
Smithfield Middle Contributes to Penny Campaign | Upcoming Events and Exhibits at the VHM Suidlanders and the White Genocide Myth | Documenting Liberator Perspectives Local Holocaust Survivor Reconnects to Family in Belgium | Student Art Contest Winners 2018
Personal and Powerful
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Contents
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Message from the Director
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Penny Campaign Donation by Smithfield Middle School
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Recommended Reading
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Upcoming Events
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Genocide Watch: White Genocide Myth in South Africa
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Artifact Highlight: Liberator Journal
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Family Reunited
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2018 Student Art Contest Winners
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Remembering Murray
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TEI Supporter Thank You!
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What is a Malyene? In Yiddish, “de malyene” means a raspberry bush, but in the slang of Eastern European Jews, it also meant “a hiding place.” “De malyene” is where you would protect your most precious valuables– gold, jewels, a small child or yourself.
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Make a resolution not to hide, but come experience the Virginia Holocaust Museum with the many programs and events it has to share. Cover Photo: Dr. Roger Loria (left) and Win Loria (right) during Dr. Loria’s deposition at the KDM in Belgium. Courtesy of Kazerne Dossin
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BEYOND DUTY While the countries of the free world were reluctant to help Jewish refugees, and while most diplomats continued to employ standard procedures, only very few felt that extraordinary times required extraordinary action and were willing to act against their governments’ policy.
These are the stories of 9 diplomats who were recognized as “Righteous Among the Nations”. The stories represent diversity: different countries of origin, various countries where they operated different types of rescue actions taken in various stages of the Holocaust.
On view at the VHM June 8–September 18
There’s Just Us Photos from the 2017 Charlottesville protests by Alec R. Hosterman On view at the VHM Aug 3–Oct 28, 2018
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Message from the Director Inspiring generations of Virginians to build a stronger community
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n my six months of service to the Virginia Holocaust Museum, we have accomplished the VHM’s mission to inspire future generations of Virginians to fight prejudice and indifference in many areas. Thus far, we have hosted over 4,800 students on school tours; had our largest attendance for Yom HaShoah of over 350 people; and Museum staff have participated in numerous outreach efforts. Also thanks to the generosity of the Barbara & Fred Kort Foundation we are confident we will complete renovations of our TEI classroom and Archives spaces. Our team has also made great strides in exhibits. We’ve made updates to the core exhibit with the most up-to-date information that we have on the Holocaust. This year, we have brought in exhibits such as The Last Swiss Holocaust Survivors from the Swiss Embassy and Faces of Survival from the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater. Most recently we opened an exhibit sent to us from the Israel Embassy in Washington called Beyond Duty. This exhibition is quite extensive, filled with over 20 panels dedicated to the diplomats who have been honored as Righteous Among the Nations. These individuals saved many thousands of Jews by issuing visas in countries around the world to secure their freedom. Coming in August, There’s Just Us an exhibit of photos taken during the protests at Charlottesville last summer, will open to the public on August 3rd.
It is my pleasure to announce that generous members of our community have sponsored over 30 teachers in our flagship Teacher Education Institute (TEI). Teacher sponsorships cover the cost of the week-long online course, the week-long inclassroom costs, educational resources, visiting professors and speakers and meals for participants. We have covered the cost of supporting teachers in the first session of TEI. Please help us by sponsoring the rest of the teachers in session two. To learn more about how you can support a teacher, please contact me at sasher@vaholocaust.org or Megan Ferenczy at mferenczy@vaholocaust.org. As you can see, the Virginia Holocaust Museum is not slowing down going into its 21st year. I hope you all will be a part of our growth whether it’s touring the museum and seeing our exhibits, sponsoring our educational programs or just simply spreading the word about what you learned. Please reach out to me and let me know how we can build a stronger community and VHM together.
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Smithfield Middle School gives biggest penny campaign donation of 2018 June 1, 2018, the VHM received its largest donation for the Penny Campaign this year from Smithfield Middle School. Teacher Robert Rice and eight of his students from the Pennies from the Heart Club dropped off 51,000 pennies to the Virginia Holocaust Museum this past Friday. This donation is not Rice’s first year with the VHM’s Penny Campaign or the Virginia Holocaust Museum. In 2006, Rice won a teaching grant to tour concentration camps throughout Europe.“Jay Ipson and the VHM were instrumental in helping me win,” Rice says, “Since then, I have tried to bring my history classes to the museum to tour the exhibits.” It was during one of Rice’s first visits he decided to help with the VHM penny campaign. While teaching at John Rolfe Middle School, Rice originally wanted to collect one penny for each student, which would’ve been about 1,200 pennies for his first collection. In the end, the students raised over 70,000 pennies. Part of that original
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donation is still on display at the VHM. It was the publicity generated from Rolfe’s gift that eventually got the attention of other schools who also wanted to see how many pennies they could collect. “I love seeing how VHM is changing how they display each school’s donation,” Rice says, “We’re proud that we started that.” For this year’s club, the eight students created awareness for the Penny Campaign by going on their school announcements, designing signs for their school and holding collections during after-school activities. They also wrote their Congressmen, mayors, school board members, various principals, and community members. With this recent donation of 51,000 pennies, the Pennies from the Heart Club has totaled over 221,000 pennies since 2006. Not a small feat to accomplish! The Virginia Holocaust Museum is touched by the dedication and effort of the Pennies from the Heart Club. With this latest donation the Penny Campaign has reached over 4.6 million pennies.
Recommended Reading: Violins of Hope Amnon Weinstein was working as a violin maker in Israel when he was visited by an Auschwitz survivor. The survivor brought in an old, weather-damaged violin hoping it could be repaired. This was a violin he kept with him through the Holocaust and wanted to pass on to his grandson. Years after this encounter, Amnon began to collect and restore violins from the Holocaust. Violins of Hope, as the project was named, would bring many damaged, often unplayable, instruments back to the stage honoring Holocaust victims and celebrating, through music, the Jewish culture that the Nazis had sought to destroy. James A. Grymes’ Violins of Hope shares seven stories of the Holocaust through the violins in Amnon’s collection--stories of refugees fleeing their homes to foreign orchestras, prisoners playing in concentration camp ensembles, and partisans using their talents to help the cause. The focus on music and the Jewish musical tradition makes Violins of Hope a unique account of the experiences of musicians during the Holocaust. For some, talent allowed the musicians a better chance at survival either as a means of escape or special treatment in the form of lighter work details and extra rations. For others, music was the remaining connection to their personal and cultural lives from before the war. For most, music provided a brief respite from their circumstances to temporarily soothe their souls during these dark days and gave them a glimmer of hope for a brighter future. –By Kara Yurina, Museum Shop Manager This book and many others are available for purchase in the Virginia Holocaust Museum’s Patricia R. Sporn Museum Shop.
Remembering Murray Carton On January 3, 2018, the Museum lost a dear member of our family when Murray Carton passed away. Murray was a part of the museum for 20 years, and worked in Guest Services helping with tours, answering the phone, and greeting guests, among many other things, and he has left a void we cannot fill. He is dearly missed. May his memory be a blessing. D E M A LY E N E
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Upcoming Events at the VHM There’s Just Us Members-Only Preview + Artist Talk August 2 | 6:00–7:30 pm Photographer and Longwood Professor, Alec R. Hosterman, will talk about and give a tour of his photo series There’s Just Us. This powerful photo exhibit documents Hosterman’s experiences during the Unite the Right protests in Charlottesville, VA. His photo series shows the struggle communities face when fighting hate and bigotry, and remembers the collective voices that were brave enough to stand up against all odds. This member-only event is free but limited space so registration is required. RSVP online at www.vaholocaust.org or by calling 804–257–5400 ext. 252.
Break Glass: Facilitating Conversations to End Hate October 10 | 9:30 am–3:30 pm This teacher workshop will provide educators with the tools to engage students in a dialog about diversity and social awareness as it relates to their curriculum and the everyday lives of students. The session is limited to 30 participants. This workshop is free for educators and includes classroom resources. Register for this workshop by registering online at www.vaholocaust.org or by calling Megan Ferenczy at 804–257–5400 ext. 234.
Rule of Law Day October 15 | 12:00 pm This program and award established by the VHM’s Nuremberg Courtroom Committee and the VA Law Foundation honors individuals whose life and work emulate the highest ideals enshrined in the principals of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal and the International Court of Justice. Michael W. Smith will be given the Rule of Law Award and the The Honorable Jane Marum Roush (Ret.) will be given the Civility in the Law Award. RSVP to the Rule of Law Awards Brett Schrader by October 12 by emailing bschrader@vaholocaust.org or by calling 804–257–5400 ext. 243.
Christian Picciolini | October 17 Student Talk 10:00 am–12:00 pm | Public 6:30–7:30 pm As a reformed extremist, Piccolini now focuses on empathy, compassion, tolerance, various domestic and international hate movements as well as strategies for non-aggressive intervention, prevention and disengagement. The morning lecture is being offered for student groups and the evening lecture is free and open to the public. This event is free and open to the public. Register your class by contacting Megan Ferenczy by calling 804–257–5400 ext. 234 or by emailing mferenczy@vaholocaust.org by October 3rd. To attend for the public event, please register online at www.vaholcaust.org or by emailing rharper@vaholocaust.org.
Charlottesville Members-Only Premiere | October 25 This film explores the events that led to the tragedies of August 11–12 through firsthand accounts of the people involved and who witnessed the events. It investigates the missteps and miscalculations by government and police. It examines the intentions and tactics of the Alt Right and of the counter protesters. It seeks the perspective of the local residents who woke to find riots in their back yard, while studying a president who equivocates, as well as a national reaction of horror. This member-only event is free but space is limited, registration is required. Register for this event by emailing Rachel Harper at rharper@vaholocaust.org or by calling 804–257– 5400 ext. 252
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Perpetuating the Myth: White Genocide in South Africa? The false claim of a future white genocide in South Africa is not new. The roots of this idea extend back to apartheid when the South African government used the concept of “the black danger” to justify a higher, more brutal level of control over their non-white citizens. Right-wing groups promoted the current concept in the early postApartheid years. The original telling featured various apocalyptic claims of a South Africa purging itself of white citizens if Nelson Mandela won the presidency. Last year, the claim received international attention as The Suidlanders, a South African white nationalist survivalist group, toured North America looking for donors and media coverage for their cause. In this repackaged white genocide myth, the Suidlanders point to the robbing and murdering of rural white farmers as examples of coming atrocities. South African farmers have been the subject of violent crime since the end of Apartheid. These actions are not due to any concerted effort to eliminate white South Africans, however, but merely representative of the country’s high crime rate coupled with the farmer’s isolation. In fact, the rate of violent crimes against farmers, of any race, dropped from a high of 153 in 1998 to below 50 in 2017. Nonetheless, the Suidlanders’ tour of the United States resulted in a variety of right-wing political outlets – including Fox News, InfoWars, and Breitbart News – giving time and legitimacy to their ideology. Their visit to the United States also involved meetings with prominent American white nationalists such as former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke and alt-right figure Richard Spencer. While it is important to shine a light on the high crime rate in South Africa, the discussion needs to focus on the systemic social issues involved and not on extremist propaganda. Genocide is a specific crime with a specific intent, which does not exist in South Africa. These claims of white genocide are ultimately part of the same ideological narrative promoted by white extremists groups in the United States. By Tim Hensley, Director of Collections
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Documenting Liberator Perspectives By Angela Rueda, Assistant Curator
Morton Marks in the Rainbow Division Courtesy of Tracy Marks, Virginia Holocaust Museum
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“Moved into concentration camp, largest in Germany, discovered thousands of dead prisoners, freed 32,000 of them.” –Morton Marks
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orton Marks was only 18 years old when he helped to liberate Dachau on April 29, 1945. Marks, a native of Richmond, had spent the previous months fighting in France and Germany with the 42nd Infantry Division. Marks joined the Army while he was in college studying to be an engineer. While completing his studies, he was transferred to the famed Rainbow Division. In 2004 the Virginia Holocaust Museum received a donation from Marks’ son that included artifacts, documents, and photos from Morton’s time in service. This June, the museum received a new donation, which further tells Morton’s story. One artifact included in this donation is the journal Marks kept while he moved through Europe with the Rainbow Division. His journal begins in January 1945 with Marks’ departure from Fort Meade to the United Kingdom. From there, Marks tracks the movement of his division as they progressed from the front lines of France into Germany and later on to Austria. Along the way, the division captured cities and liberated Dachau, Germany’s first and longest-running concentration camp. He writes succinctly on April 29, 1945, “Moved into Dachau at 1700. Moved in concentration camp, largest in Germany, discovered thousands of dead prisoners, freed 32,000 of them.” After the war, Marks returned home and picked up his life in Richmond. For his service he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts. Having his journal in the collection helps to preserve Marks’ story and his experiences, and also contributes to an important perspective—that of local liberators—in the Museum’s collection.
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A Family Reunited Belgian archives and collections connects a local Holocaust survivor to family
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his past May, Dr. Roger Loria, a Holocaust survivor and member of the Richmond community, was invited to give a deposition at The Kazerne Dossin Memorial, Museum and Documentation Centre on Holocaust and Human Rights in Mechelen, Belgium. The road to this long-awaited visit to Belgium began in 2012 when a man named Steven Maisel visited the Kazerne Dossin, found pictures of the Maisel family, and started a meticulous search to locate any remaining living relations. The history of the Kazerne Dossin is both fascinating and tragic. From the time the structure was built in 1756 to the opening of The Kazerne Dossin Museum (KDM) in December 2012, the structure served as barracks to accommodate soldiers, a weapons depot, and eventually, during World War II, a transit camp for Jews, Roma, and Sinti. After the war, the Dossin barracks was repossessed by the state and served several administrative and governmental purposes. In 1995, The Association of Jewish Deportees in Belgium – Daughters, and Sons of the Deportation and the Central Israeli Consistory of Belgium, pressured the Flemish government, which, seventeen years later, opened KDM as a memorial and archive.
A Family Changed Jewish men and women reporting with a convocation for forced labor in the courtyard of the Kazerne Dossin, taken at the end of July 1942. © Kazerne Dossin – Fonds Kummer
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r. Loria’s Father, Wolf Loria, was born on January 12, 1912, in Oswiecim, Poland. As a young boy, Wolf was sent to Belgium to learn the diamond trade. In Belgium, he met and married Margot Maisel, a Belgian citizen. Roger was born in Antwerp, Belgium in April of 1940. After the Third Reich invaded Belgium in 1940, Wolf and Margot along with many members of the extended Loria family tried to flee the country for Dunkirk, France. On the road with thousands of refugees, they were caught and forced to return to Antwerp. Because Poland was also occupied, Wolf, still a Polish citizen, worried that his now stateless status would put his wife and child at risk. With promises of a job, he decided to leave for France on his own with the hopes that Margot and Roger would follow at a later date. Wolf was caught in France by the Gestapo and detained at Drancy camp. From there he was deported to Auschwitz in September 1942. He survived as a slave laborer in the mines until a month before the end of the war, when he perished during a death march. With the news of another Jewish round-up in September 1942, Margot and Roger made their way to France to find Wolf. The pair was detained in Annecy with other mothers and children. Margot escaped with Roger after German forces came to deport the detainees, but was caught once again and deported to Rivesaltes. Margot and Roger managed to escape once more and headed towards Switzerland. They were arrested at the border by Swiss
Dr. Roger Loria, Age 4. Courtesy of the Virginia Holocaust Museum
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police and sent to a refugee camp in Switzerland. Soon Roger became sick, so he was released and allowed to live with Ms. Lotty –Grunblatt’s parents in Geneva. Finally, Margot was also released from the refugee camp, and able to join her son, in Geneva. At the end of the war, they were repatriated to Belgium. Dr. Loria and his mother were the sole survivors of a once large and loving family. In 1949, under the auspices of Aliyat – Ha- Noar they immigrated to Israel with the Jewish orphanage and began their new life. In 1964, Dr. Loria came to the United States as a Rockefeller Foundation scholar, and completed a Masters and a Doctorate. In 1973, he accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. His research made him an internationally recognized expert in virology and immunology. Dr. Loria has had an academic career spanning fifty-two years and has contributed to the education of thousands of medical and graduate students at VCU/MCV. He has also made a vast number of contributions to the fields of medicine and science. Though his life began during the Holocaust, his story is not defined by it. Dr. Loria explained, “I did not speak about the Holocaust for close to 50 years.” However, due to the epidemic of hate groups, anti-Semitism and violent acts of terror, he decided “to start speaking out for tolerance and against the hate.”
Dr. Dorien Styven and Dr. Roger Loria at the KDM. Courtesy of Kazerne Dossin
Further, Dr. Loria has played an active role at The Virginia Holocaust Museum over the years. “The Virginia Holocaust Museum was the perfect place to be the guardians of the memories–incorporating my personal history with that of the six million and the rest impacted by the Shoah. Its mission to provide historically accurate information is of utmost importance, and I am keen to be a part of it.”
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teven Maisel made significant efforts to learn the history of his family at the Kazerne Dossin Museum and through active collaboration with Dr. Dorien Styven, a historian and researcher at the KDM. With extensive research, Steven Maisel found Dr. Loria through his scientific publications. The two men, second cousins, in fact, connected and Dr. Loria shared, “It turns out my grandfather, who was murdered in Auschwitz, had brothers who lived in London and survived the war. I did not know specifically of their existence, and earlier attempts to find family in England had failed.” Dr. Loria attributes their connection and his visit to the KDM to Steven’s diligence “in putting the fragments of our family back together.”
Dr. Roger Loria in front of his father’s signature. Courtesy of Win Loria
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Dr. Roger Loria (left) and Win Loria (right) during Dr. Loria’s deposition. Courtesy of Kazerne Dossin
Due to Steven’s perseverance, in May of this year, Dr. Roger Loria and his wife, Win Loria, were invited to attend the KMD, in Mechelen, Belgium. It was here, on May 7th, 2018, where Dr. Dorien Styven videotaped Dr. Loria’s testimony and was able to show him some of the information and documentation of the Maisel-Loria family housed in the KDM’s archives. Several members of Dr. Loria’s scattered family attended the deposition to lend their support: Mrs. Lotty Grunblatt-Reich of Antwerp, Mr. Steven Maisel of southern France, Mr. and Mrs. Ben and Nicky Keen of London, Mrs. Erna Hagendorf of Brussels, as well as his wife, Win. He shared that “It was a very moving event and elicited many memories from all of us.” After taking his deposition, Dr. Dorien Styven showed Dr. Loria and his family some of the files on their family including a document that displays the signature of Wolf Loria, Dr. Loria’s father, who had been murdered in Auschwitz. It was the first time Dr. Loria had ever seen his father’s signature. Additionally, Dr. Styven shared a complete picture of his mother’s sister, Anne, which he had never seen before. Later, Dr. Styven emailed over 60 files pertaining to the Maisel-Loria family to Dr. Loria.
Reflecting on his experience visiting Dr. Loria concluded, “The exhibit is extremely powerful and displays the enormity of the tragedy that the Belgian Jews suffered. It is a memorial which bids us to remember that history and make every effort not to repeat it. It seems overwhelming to realize that the Antwerp deportation was only a small fraction of the total numbers of Jews deported. By preserving the names and the memories, the Museum helps others to relocate lost family and their history. War may end at a specific date, but it takes years to find and reconnect the fragments of once large, loving families that were lost completely or scattered by the winds of war. I am so moved and fortunate to have reconnected with my family and perhaps my day at Kazerne Dossin with them is a kind of victory over the horrible evil of the Holocaust.” By Hana Green, VHM Education Intern, University of Haifa
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History is shaped by the choices we make Carole Weinstein Prize for Tolerance and Justice in the Visual Arts Winners Third Place
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Junior Division
Honorary Mention
Acceptance Parita Lamba
Smoke and Mirrors Taeshaun Faulkner
Grade 8 Sharpie, acrylic paint, watercolors, cut paper, and glue
Grade 7 Color pencil and graphite
Grade 8 Watercolor
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King of Peace Lorena Maier
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Humiliation Jasmin Campbell Grade 12
Irena Katie Kania Grade 12
Digital Illustration
Watercolor
Hope Halley Conrad Grade 12 Mixed Media
Junior Division 1st Place From Generation to Generation by Shoshana Chueca Grade 8 | Graphite and colored pencil It is said that the eye is the window to the soul. When choosing between right and wrong, your soul will guide you. Halina Zimm and her sisters were saved by a woman who gave them her own daughters’ identity papers. She chose to give them a chance to survive.
Senior Division 1st Place Silence by Chloe MacLean Grade 11 | Plaster, acrylic paint, artificial moss, cardboard, and plastic My inspiration for this project came from an extraordinary activist, who sacrificed his own voice in order to be heard. Jon Francis, born in Philadelphia, started his journey for environmental awareness in California. Francis, at the age of 27, witnessed the tragic collision of two oil tank ships. The result was half a million gallons of oil rushed into water. From that moment, Francis vowed not to speak or use any form of vehicular transportation. My project embodies the choice Francis made, as well as the cause. I included a hand, gesturing silence. At the top of the finger is the “start of the spill.” You can see the oil rushing down his hand into the small pool of water at the base. By incorporating these symbols I hope to show Francis’ story through art. I placed Francis’ face in the moss to show not only how he supported nature, but how he grew with his movement.
This art contest was generously sponsored by D E M A LY E N E
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Break Glass
The Art of VL Cox– A Conversation to End Hate September 28, 2018–February 12, 2019 at the Virginia Holocaust Museum Cox creates her work from found objects, appropriating them to make pointed criticisms about some of today’s most troubling topics – often delivering a message that is in direct opposition to the objects’ original message or intended use. Conversely, she shines a light on the misuse and corruption of institutions, offices, and artifacts by those who manipulate them in support of their own greed or hateful personal agendas.
LONGWOOD CENTER for the VI S UA L A RTS
Thank you for Supporting TEI! TEI Teacher Sponsors Michele and Samuel Asher Irving & Rhona Blank Joseph & Shelley Brodecki Dale Call Katheryn & Christopher Curtis Miriam & Daniel Davidow Kenneth & Samantha Dye Earl & Linda Ferguson Steven & Beth Gillispie Howard & Jill Goldfine Matthew & Betty Grossman Eva Teig-Hardy & Michael Hardy Bernard & Marie Henderson Russell Jennings & Jeanne Saunders Benjamin & Jill Kutner David Lebenstein Adam Plotkin Catherine Plotkin
This exhibition was organized by the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts at Longwood University.
TEI not only reaches and educates teachers, but the thousands of students they will teach during their careers. Thank you to the following individuals and foundations who were able to make this program possible: Norman & Sylvia Samet Charles & Joanne Sydnor James Weinberg & Rosann Bocciarelli Jay & Marilyn Weinberg
TEI Program Supporters Richard Adelman & Jane Pinsky Rabbi Dovid & Aliza Asher Rabbi Dennis & Julie Beck Berman Charles Beorn Aileen Bryce Alan & Beverly Diamonstein Patricia Doniger Saul Gorman Gaby Heller Gerald & Jean Jaffe Jonas Katz Joel & Gail Lewis Peter & Ann Goodman
Mark & Ashley Goodstein John & Patricia O’Bannon Dale Moes Andrew Mulberg Brenda Rabhan Frederick & Huda Rahal Steven & Regina Richman Herbert Schoenes & Adrienne Haine Schoenes Leonard Schreiber John & Gail Schwartz Maurice & Janie Schwarz Elliot & Wendy Spanier Charles Smith, Jr. Catherine Stone Rolfe Gail Vanovitch Henry & Mary Willett Raphael & Diane Witorsch
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Your next event The Virginia Holocaust Museum contains two rental spaces, a 5600 square foot auditorium/synagogue and a 5300 square foot classroom. For a seated, lecturestyle event, the auditorium has a maximum capacity of 300 (225 for seated dinners/ banquets), while the classroom has a maximum capacity of 100. Food and beverage service is allowed in both facilities, provided that the proper insurance and licenses have been secured. The museum does not provide catering. Both the auditorium/synagogue and the classroom are fully AV equipped. Use of the equipment can be included in any rental for a nominal charge.
For more information about rentals you can visit www.vaholocaust.org/rentals or call us at 804 257 5400 ext. 246 D E M A LY E N E
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